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My Talk With Carol Howard Merrit on God Complex Radio

Author, speaker, pastor and radio talk show host Carol Howard Merritt invited me to be a guest on her God Complex Radio show. We talked about PregMANcy, my new memoir coming out on April 1, 2012, as well as about why so much Christian Music sucks. Oh,

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Christian Piatt Reads “The Santa Atheist”

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A Talk with “Blue Like Jazz” Film Director Steve Taylor

While I was at Soularize in San Diego, Amy and I had the chance to sit down with the guys from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast, as well as Phil Shepherd (AKA The Whiskey Preacher) and Burnside Writers Collective’s Jordan Green to chat with Steve Taylor, renowned musician

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Banned Questions on Blog Talk Radio

Here’s an interview I did recently with Cliff Zier and Roger Noriega at NDB Media. We got into some pretty interesting, edgy stuff. Check it out. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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System Failure: Reflections on RAISED RIGHT

System Failure By Christian Piatt There are plenty of criticisms offered against today’s American youth and young adults. And despite the fact that I turn forty in a few weeks, I still consider myself among them: a kindred spirit of cultural orphans, still sifting through the detritus

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An Improvised Faith (spoken word video)

Here’s a second spoken word piece I shared during my keynotes at the School for Congregational Learning in Iowa:

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What are your BANNED QUESTIONS about Christians?

I’m working on the proposal for book three in the BANNED QUESTIONS series, BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT CHRISTIANS, and I need your help. Check out this survey I created to allow anyone to add their own question, and then vote on their favorites. This list will be very

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Why Young Adults Avoid Church (Part 1 of 2)

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THE NINES: Vote for your favorite speakers

Got this groovy widget that allows me to share this list on my blog. Pretty cool! If you’re not familiar with it, you can read more about THE NINES here. Basically it’s a completely FREE web based conference coming up in a little more than a month

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An anti-emergent manifesto & my response

In my previous blog post, I laid out Kevin DeYoung’s (co-author of Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)) criteria for being an emergent Christian.I’m not sure why exactly he compiled this list, other than to help promote his anti-emergent book. But I found

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