Christian Piatt's Blog, page 22
November 10, 2014
CultureCast and TNT cross-pollination experiment
As you know I am in the middle of a book tour for my new PostChristian: What’s left? Can we fix? Do we care? . A few weeks ago I was in soCal where I spoke at Chapman University, Loma Linda University, the Pacific Southwest Regional Assembly of my denomination – Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and [Read More...]
November 4, 2014
La vita è dolce!
In the middle of my book tour, my wife and I traveled to Rome, Italy to visit Cinecitta Studios and the set of Christ the Lord a move based on Anne Rice’s book, Christ the Lord Out of Egypt. Not quite on the PostChristian book tour path, but we had a great time enjoying tiny Italian [Read More...]
November 3, 2014
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? (AKA: Was Constantine an Ass-hat?”
Last week I spent a few days in Rome with, among others, Tony Jones. As someone who hasn’t ever been to Rome, it was particularly helpful for me to have a Christian historian along. It’s easy enough, having seen one amazing display of ruins after another, or cathedral after awesome cathedral, to lose some perspective. [Read More...]
October 29, 2014
Church Sign Epic Fails, “No Explanations” Edition
When I was a kid, I’d always ask “why?” about everything. Thankfully, church cured me of that!
October 22, 2014
How Revelation Ruined (and Saved) My Life
I was asked to contribute a chapter to a new book called “Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels.” The volume, an edited compilation put together by Cathleen Falsani and Jennifer Grant, takes on many of the weird texts in scripture that we either [Read More...]
Church Sign Epic Fails, “Darwin vs. Jesus” Edition
Darwin was pretty certain, what with the huge body of evidence behind him, he’d win the arm wrestling contest for sure. But then Jesus pulled that “Over the Top” move and BAM, totally kicked his ass. Sorry, millions of years of evidence. Christian Piatt is the author of “postChristian: What’s Left? Can we fix it? [Read More...]
October 20, 2014
Los Angeles Has Been postChristian-ized
It’s official: the postChristian tour has left it’s mark on the City of Angels. We started this leg of the tour at Chapman University, where I shared a chapel sermon and a book talk at their AMAZING interfaith center. It’s legitimately one of the most inspiring spaces in which I’ve ever been a part of a [Read More...]
October 14, 2014
The Good and Bad in the Vatican’s new LGBT Statement
In what the Human Rights Campaign calls a “seismic shift in position,” the Extraordinary Synod of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement affirming loving, committed same-sex partnerships. And though this new declaration is a promising step toward greater equality for the LGBTQ community within the greater Christian Church, it leaves much yet to be desired [Read More...]
October 13, 2014
How Others View Christianity (#postChristian book tour trailer)
Here’s a video Gregg Brekke (SixView Studios) and I put together for the postChristian book tour (Jericho Books/Hachette Book Group). The clips of me speaking are from my time with Eric Elnes and the the Darkwood Brew crew at Countryside UCC in Omaha, NE. The others…well, suffice it to say that these tend to represent [Read More...]
October 9, 2014
Hungry as Dogs: We Don’t Really Understand Charity
Following is excerpted from “postChristian: What’s left? Can we fix it? Do we care?” (Hachette/Jericho, Aug 2014) Any Christian—and arguably, any socially aware human being—would agree that having concern for our neighbor should be a core value of any society. And yet, we hardly have to look beyond the boundaries of our own doorstep to [Read More...]
