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October 2023

October 14, 2023
Today I have war on my mind. A week ago, a surprise attack on Jewish...

September 2023

September 09, 2023
The doctrine of the Trinity solidified as a doctrine, which is to say as a...

August 2023

August 26, 2023
From time to time I post brief descriptions of the books I've been reading. I'm...
August 05, 2023
In my work as a theologian, I study the language and traditions of Christian holiness....

July 2023

July 22, 2023
At the center of Christian faith stands a great irony. The unwillingness of one man...
July 08, 2023
Pickstock's Explosive World "Truth," Catherine Pickstock says, "is both a horizontal dance in time and...

June 2023

June 24, 2023
It's Saturday: let's talk about the Trinity. (Not for the first time in this column....

February 2023

February 15, 2023
The Genesis flood: one of the archetypal stories of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. A...

January 2023

January 05, 2023
The Prophetic Books are Faith-Forming Reading the prophets of Israel is tiresome work. I'm 31...

December 2022

December 28, 2022
Now and then I post annotated bibliographies of the reading I've doing lately. Here are...
December 13, 2022
Advent, the Christian liturgical season leading up to Christmas, is the time when songs and...

November 2022

November 23, 2022
As I load the car, like millions of other Americans, for a long road trip...
November 14, 2022
Hello readers! I mentioned earlier in the fall that I'd be stepping away from my...

October 2022

October 02, 2022
If you were to look through my journals over the last few years, you would...

September 2022

September 26, 2022
The Nazarenes and Wesleyans who first gave shape to my faith taught me to care...
September 21, 2022
I am, like many of you, watching The Rings of Power, basically as soon as Amazon...
September 07, 2022
How about another list of books I've been reading? But first... Why Read Books? Like...
September 02, 2022
Praying in Chorus It's difficult to describe, for those who have never heard it, what...

August 2022

August 24, 2022
If no one knew that Jesus was the messiah yet, what was John's baptism about?...
August 20, 2022
In Isaiah, we learn that God's mighty acts of liberation are a non-identical repetition of...
August 03, 2022
While traveling this week, I read Elizabeth Kolbert's Sixth Extinction. The book, in my opinion,...

July 2022

July 27, 2022
This summer I've continued my life-long submersion into Russian theological and intellectual culture. I've written...
July 23, 2022
The prophets of Judah and Israel are often seen as vertical in their messaging. The...
July 19, 2022
Those who have been reading this column will be aware of my summer adventures in...
July 15, 2022
This past week I've been homemaking. Cooking, hosting family. Saying my prayers while watching the...
July 08, 2022
A Patheos reader sends us this question. When it comes to faith, the ground level...
July 06, 2022
This morning our gospel points us to what I'm going to call apocalyptic hospitality. My...
July 02, 2022
Long plane rides provide guilt free screen time. Especially headed west when, the way I...

June 2022

June 29, 2022
My travels this month gave me the unique opportunity to discuss tragedy, courage, and Shakespeare’s...
June 26, 2022
Last week I had the pleasure of talking theology, literature, and ecology with Rowan Williams....
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