Mark Stenberg is a founding pastor of two innovative, emerging churches: House of Mercy Church in St. Paul, Minnesota and Mercy Seat Lutheran Church in Northeast Minneapolis. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University and regularly teaches preaching practicums at Luther Seminary.
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Introduction: Better Than Heroin: The Sheer Hedonistic Pleasure of Theology. 1. Dumping Our Bad Boyfriend: How the Cheatin' Heart of Modernity Double-Crossed the Doctrine of Revelation; 2. Death to the Conceptual Trinity! An Antimonotheistic Manifesto; 3. De-Greekifying the Divine, or How to Quit Thinking About God; 4. Jesus Christ: More Than a Good Cuss Word; 5. (Jesus Bonus Chapter) Dear God: Why Couldn't Jesus Have Been a Girl?; 6. Why Your Theory of the Atonement Sucks; 7. Holy Spirit Revival Featuring Live Snake Handling; 8. God and Creation: How Annie Dillard Got Me over My Pantheist Envy; 9. Backwards Bible the Read to How; 10. The Seven Deadly Myths about Sin, or How to Sin Like a Christian; 11. (The Hell Chapter) Heaven, Hell, and the Last Judgment: The Second Voyage of St. Brendan; 12. Toward an Ethics of Butt-Kickin' Grace; 13. The Church: Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Sects but Were Afraid to Ask; 14. Doing Theology on Your Death Bed: Is There Anything to Hold onto When You Have to Let Go of Everything?