Blog 1 — Derek Penwell

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Are There Limits on Diversity?

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellJuly 1, 2013Conservative, diversity, fundamentalist, liberal, moderate, Progressive, Social Justice Comment

DOMA and the Supreme Court: Its Time for the Church to Get Its Story Straight — [D]mergent

Christianity, Marriage Equality, PoliticsDerek PenwellMarch 25, 2013civil rights, doma, LGBT, prop 8Comment

Broken Promises: How We Betrayed the Next Generation — [D]mergent

PoliticsDerek PenwellFebruary 25, 2013Comment

Bullies, Drones, and Jesus: An Open Letter to the President — [D]mergent

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellFebruary 18, 2013Christianity, Drones, Pacifism, President Obama, Religion in AmericaComment

Disgusted Young People: How Martin Luther King Predicted the Decline of the Mainline Church

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellJanuary 21, 2013Fundamentalism, healthcare, Martin Luther King, poverty, Protestant Mainline Decline, Social JusticeComment

Why Do You Hate God and America? LIberalism and the Inevitability of the Apocalypse — [D]mergent

Christianity, Marriage Equality, PoliticsDerek PenwellNovember 26, 2012Comment

Supplanting: Will the Church Continue to Grab the Heel of the Culture? — [D]mergent

Christianity, Marriage Equality, PoliticsDerek PenwellNovember 12, 2012esau, jacob, lgbtiq, Social JusticeComment

Election 2012: So, Whats the Takeaway? — [D]mergent

Christianity, Marriage Equality, PoliticsDerek PenwellNovember 7, 2012Healthcare Reform, Obama, Obamacare, Romney, Social Justice, truthComment

Love: A Christian Voter's Guide

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellNovember 5, 2012Democrat, Greatest Commandment, presidential election, Republican, Social JusticeComment

In Defense of, If Not Social Media Partisanship, Then at Least of Having a Conviction | [D]mergent

PoliticsDerek PenwellAugust 27, 2012Advocacy, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Partisanship, Paul Ryan, politics, Republican National Convention, Social Justice, Todd AkinComment

The Hyphenateds | [D]mergent

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellMarch 3, 2012Chalice Press, emergence christianity, Emergent, missional, The HyphenatedsComment

Exploring My Own Inconsistency on the Contraception Debate

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellFebruary 11, 2012contraception, feminism, Obama administration, postmodernism, the pill Comments

Selling Our Children's Inheritance

PoliticsDerek PenwellDecember 31, 2011generation y, millennials, poverty, student loan debt Comments

Jesus and the Plutocrats

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellDecember 24, 2011ccdoc, Plutocracy, Social Justice, Think Progress, Widow's Mite Comments

The Inherent Anarchism of Christianity

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellDecember 10, 2011discipleship, politics, resident aliensComment

Newt Gingrich, calls Palestinians an 'invented' people - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

PoliticsDerek PenwellDecember 9, 2011GOP Presidential campaign, Israel, Newt Gingrich, PalestiniansComment

Gov. Rick Perry’s anti-gay Christianity

Christianity, Marriage Equality, PoliticsDerek PenwellDecember 9, 2011GOP Presidential campaign, LGBTQ, Marriage Equality, Rick PerryComment

Saving American Democracy Amendment

PoliticsDerek PenwellDecember 9, 2011Bernie Sanders, Citizens United, Constitutional Ammendment, CorporationsComment

Reading the Bible through the Eyes of the 99%

Christianity, PoliticsDerek PenwellNovember 25, 201199%, ccdoc, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Occupy, Parable of the Talents Comments