Dead Christians Society

A new column will be appearing on www.christianitytoday.com related to this “Patron Saints for Postmoderns” blog, book, & course. The first installment is here.

Welcome to a blog that really is Grateful to the Dead! If you are new to the blog, I suggest you click through a couple of the categories in the left-hand “category” area.

The category “THE BOOK: Patron Saints for Postmoderns” contains the ur-post–my original explanation of what this blog is all about.

The category “THE COURSES” has been one of the most active areas, drawing comments and exchanges from students in the Bethel Seminary course I am currently teaching that has the same name as the book. It also contains some further introductory material clipped from the notes for a brief course I taught at the wonderful Cornerstone Festival in Illinois this past summer.

Of course, feel free to browse through any of the categories that bear the names of the nine “patron and matron saints” who will be featured in my book (eight of these are the focus of the Bethel course).

If you want to vote for a favorite “patron or matron saint” as the tenth figure for the book, feel free to respond to this post with suggestions. (See THE BOOK category for my criteria in selecting the other nine.)

Thanks for dropping by.

Peace,

Chris Armstrong
associate professor of church history, Bethel Seminary
senior editor, Christian History & Biography