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November 17, 2021
What Happened When I Sang the Psalm
Thought and Song When revivalists—traveling preachers— would come to my childhood church for a special...
November 13, 2021
Can There Be a Theology of Poetry?
Therefore the mind finds metaphor. ... How I see better what is there after sitting...
November 10, 2021
Humility and Greatness: Should Christians Aim for Excellence?
The Humility Trap There is a character trap close to the surface of the Christian...
November 06, 2021
God Intended Limit as Gift
If the Genesis story is to be believed, the toughest part of being human is...
November 03, 2021
Why I called my book _Leaving Emmaus_
This fall Baylor University Press was generous enough to publish my third book, one I...
October 2021
October 30, 2021
Tolstoy’s Bold Theology
“I couldn’t paint a Christ that was not in my soul.” -Mikhailov, in Tolstoy’s Anna...
October 27, 2021
Resentment and Rejoicing in the Psalms
Many, even most, of the Psalms bring the reader to a moment when the energy,...
October 23, 2021
Holy Leisure and the Climate Emergency
Should we prefer the active or the contemplative life? My students and I have been...
October 20, 2021
Contemplation of a Child
The Burning Bush There is a burning bush at the heart of all things, Maximus...
October 16, 2021
Faith as Affection
What does it mean, Christianly speaking, to have faith? When I was 20 I went...
October 13, 2021
Can a Place Make Us Holy?
Is there theological significance to belonging to a place? This question is on my mind...
October 09, 2021
The Cross as the Meaning of Suffering
The posts in this column contemplate our diagonal connection to God. I have written here,...
October 06, 2021
Sin (and Sociopaths. And Vampires)
Sin, Maximus the Confessor (d. 662 A. D.) tells us, is wanting the things of...
October 02, 2021
Coffee with Maximus: The Five Stages of Contemplating God
Contemplating God The posts in this column speak, directly or indirectly, about contemplating God. But...
September 2021
September 30, 2021
Speaking My Truth, with Falstaff
What does it mean to be true to ourselves? Should I aim to speak “my...
September 29, 2021
Yahweh: The God beyond Verb Tenses
In Exodus, when God reveals God’s proper true name to Moses, God makes up a...
September 28, 2021
Human Energy, Divine Revelation
Where should we look if we wish to see the hand of God at work?...
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