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March 2022

March 02, 2022
It's Ash Wednesday. What is that again? Today, Christians in the Western traditions begin the...

February 2022

February 28, 2022
Prayer is boring In Luke chapter 9, Jesus goes up a mountain to pray as...
February 23, 2022
The art of forgiveness implies a return. A turning back with graciousness to the moment...
February 19, 2022
Forgiveness is front and center in any theology worth its name. How does it occur...
February 16, 2022
In Gregory of Nyssa’s treatise On the Soul and Resurrection, he tells of his journey...
February 12, 2022
God’s ways are not our ways, says Isaiah (55:8). Occasionally, when expressing frustration about something...
February 09, 2022
In an interview last week on CBS’s The Late Show, British singer Dua Lipa took...
February 05, 2022
“Our great mystery is in danger of being made a thing of little moment.” -Gregory...
February 02, 2022
“Has God forgotten to be gracious?” I love that question in Psalm 77. Like so...

January 2022

January 29, 2022
“Everything that partakes of [the Holy Spirit’s] grace is filled with joy according to its...
January 26, 2022
In the early 4th century, after imperial edicts ended official Roman persecution of Christians at...
January 22, 2022
“Origen is the whetstone of us all.” —Gregory of Nazianzus Origen's Controversial life Controversy always...
January 19, 2022
“He appeared as human in the fulness of time, and, being God’s Word, he summed...
January 15, 2022
Theologians—especially premodern ones—often use the language of divine ideas to talk about God’s work of...
January 12, 2022
I’m deep in syllabus building these days. I’m planning, among other classes, my spring course...
January 08, 2022
As I'm still in transition between semesters, I thought today might be a good day...
January 06, 2022
For those opening this link expecting to read about combs and watch chains, I’m sorry...
January 01, 2022
This January 1st, consider dropping the resolutions and spending time, instead, building new habits.  ...

December 2021

December 29, 2021
Before we left campus for Christmas, my colleague Rev. Dr. Dominique Robinson at Seminary of...
December 26, 2021
OK Christmas, can we talk about the Virgin Birth? After our recent Advent service of...
December 22, 2021
Why do so many Advent and Christmas carols feel sad? Also: why does that make...
December 18, 2021
What does it mean, theologically, to grieve a lost future? I have been doing some...
December 15, 2021
“Subjectivity is truth.” That is the famous and famously cryptic sentence at the heart of...
December 11, 2021
The Bible is ambiguous when it comes to defining hell. Still, I have notice a...
December 08, 2021
I wrote in my last column about heaven. Specifically, the idea of heaven as the...
December 04, 2021
A quick scan of the Bible gives us several ways of understanding the term “heaven.”...
December 01, 2021
In this first week of Advent, I'm contemplating Mary the Godbearer. All who celebrate Christmas...

November 2021

November 27, 2021
You and I were made to praise something beyond our understanding. To desire someone that...
November 24, 2021
Is theology small-minded? Does it, I mean, depend on a limited perspective? That’s an assumption...
November 20, 2021
All Things in Relation to God The goal of all Christian doctrine is to name...
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