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February 2015

February 28, 2015
Here's a juicy morsel from Terry Eagleton's recent book, On Evil: The damned refuse to...
February 25, 2015
According to the theory formulated by Terror Management Theory, we fight because of self-esteem. Self-esteem...
February 25, 2015
Yesterday I came across a blog post by Justin Massey, a gay Christian student at...
February 23, 2015
I'm glad Birdman won best picture last night. It's a strange film, to be sure....
February 18, 2015
"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." Ash Wednesday is a...
February 16, 2015
Martin Luther distinguished a theology of glory from a theology of the cross. A theology...
February 13, 2015
I'm working through Sarah Coakley's God, Sexuality, and the Self text right now, and came...
February 10, 2015
The quotes below are taken from Kierkegaard's extensive review of a novel, Two Ages, by...
February 06, 2015
Last week, Owen Strachan wrote a post in which he wrung his hands over the...
February 05, 2015
The first comment I received on my first post in this series of reflections on...
February 03, 2015
This is the third in a series of posts reflecting on Richard Beck's The Slavery...
February 02, 2015
This is the second post in a series of reflections on Beck's excellent book, The...

January 2015

January 29, 2015
I confess that Richard Beck is one of my favorite contemporary thinkers. He's an experimental...
January 22, 2015
One of the great questions of modern theology is the problem of the hiddenness of...
January 21, 2015
I'm preaching this Sunday a sermon titled, The Secret of Election. I will be borrowing...
January 12, 2015
Growing up evangelical--and trained in evangelical theological contexts--I was often warned that universalism is a...
January 09, 2015
So rather let us openly mock God, as has been done before in the world:...
January 07, 2015
As I have been preparing to teach, for the first time, "History and Methods of...

December 2014

December 22, 2014
This post is part of a special Patheos conversation: “Modern Magi on the Meaning of...
December 16, 2014
This post is part of a special Patheos conversation: “Modern Magi on the Mysteries of...
December 11, 2014
This post is part of a special Patheos conversation: "Modern Magi on the Meaning of...
December 08, 2014
I've been involved in Advent discussions at my church on the 'theology of heaven.' It's...
December 05, 2014
I have recently picked up Sarah Coakley's important new work, God, Sexuality, and the Self:...
December 04, 2014
Lord Jesus Christ, there is so much to draw us back: empty achievements, meaningless pleasures,...
December 03, 2014
Several months ago, I posted (on my former blog) a head's up about a forthcoming...
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