Swoosh Theology occurs unconsciously when we see words that are not there and fail to see words that are. The greater offense is to deliberately make the bible say what we want it to say or to presuppose what it should say and most often occurs when it says what we do not want it to [...]
The power of tradition is security and that security is created by the cumulative illusion of permanence and legitimacy. Brian McLaren demonstrates in A New Kind of Christianity that we have been reading the Bible backwards. Rob Bell challenges us to “rethink” our traditional understanding of Christianity in Velvet Elvis. And the story of Syracuse’s statue [...]