Fall-Centered Theological Anthropologies—LIBRARY

God’s self-commitment to creatures—LIBRARY

The Triune Creator’s Relating to Creation—LIBRARY

All places tell stories—LIBRARY

Good Theologians—LIBRARY

Christian astonishment—LIBRARY

An anti-culture—LIBRARY

What theology must be if it is to be healthy and fruitful as a field.

Perfectionism Without Perfectibility—LIBRARY

The Real Aim of Utopias—LIBRARY

the story of modern theology—LIBRARY

theological self-criticism—LIBRARY

The first and last act of theological existence—LIBRARY

Good theology demands good theologians—LIBRARY

How spiritual formation is not mere interiority or “authenticity” but death-and-resurrection at the hand of the living God.

the mixed moral qualities of any age—LIBRARY

In which Eric Gregory makes it clear that this book is extremely for me.

All is broken and incomplete, and politics can not heal the rupture. —LIBRARY

Summarizing the basic shared commitments of all Augustinian liberals, whatever their many other differences

A Chalcedonian conceptual grammar for love and justice—LIBRARY

What if we thought of “love” and “justice” like the hypostatic union?

God teaches us—LIBRARY

the unholy science?—LIBRARY

an exercise of holiness—LIBRARY

reason is a field of God’s sanctifying work—LIBRARY

an exercise of fellowship with the saints—LIBRARY

the requirement for theological reason —LIBRARY

all the difference in the world—LIBRARY

the trap of thinking that we know what's going on here—LIBRARY

thus… have we made the world—LIBRARY

God is holy as he bends down to us in mercy—LIBRARY

not primarily morally legislative but soteriological—LIBRARY

God as the Holy One and God as Redeemer and Saviour—LIBRARY

holiness and jealousy—LIBRARY

God with us, God for us—LIBRARY

A path away from Kant?—LIBRARY

Koyzis’ provocative thesis on authority and liberty.

Dogmatic portrayal of the canon—LIBRARY

“…our enemies, sin, the curse and death, are beaten.”—LIBRARY

“If you have heard the Easter message, you can no longer run around with a tragic face and lead the humourless existence of a man who has no hope.”

Three considerations on reading the Bible—LIBRARY

Webster expounding/expanding on Bonhoeffer and Barth.

exposition precedes disputation—LIBRARY

not the imposition of an alien will—LIBRARY

…revelation disturbs —LIBRARY

‘It is “an interruption which addresses us.”’

Reading for world-building—LIBRARY

…such is God’s mercy—LIBRARY

a moral undertaking—LIBRARY

“I cannot not be a creature made and called by God’s love”—LIBRARY

The incredibly good news about us of which Christ is the guarantee.

how to sorrow/pilgrim knowledge —LIBRARY

Courage—LIBRARY

Study—LIBRARY

A good word from John Webster to all students (not just of theology).

the heart of the life of the Church—LIBRARY

One challenge to the new moral science—LIBRARY

Hunter and Nedelisky on the any kind of “moral science” which takes “social consensus” or majority preferences as the limit of actual ethical reasoning.

the possibility of being caught off guard—LIBRARY

necessarily simple abstractions—LIBRARY

People, Strategy, Execution—LIBRARY

A few choice quotes from Phil Rozenweig’s The Halo Effect.

Stocks, Flows, Resiliency, and Layoffs—LIBRARY

The costs of decreasing a business’ capacity to absorb change.

boundary-drawing and system design—LIBRARY

Notes from Thinking in Systems which I find particularly applicable to software.

the establishment of fellowship—LIBRARY

Webster on “revelation” as more than imparting information: as being God’s very presence.

Tools for Thought, Not Shortcuts for Thinking—LIBRARY

Hierarchical systems—LIBRARY

How do you make a charismatic thing?—LIBRARY

One of the best quotes I have ever read on the discipline of design.

Theology is not liturgy. But… —LIBRARY

Implications of Plateauing LLMs—NOTES

They may not be what you think.

Resilience, Robustness, and Competence Envelopes—NOTES

Some great additions to my systems thinking vocabulary, courtesy of Lorin Hochstein.

Two Quotes and a Question on Software Engineering and AI—NOTES

What should we make of generative AI systems in software engineering?

Robin Sloan—“Is It Okay?”↩︎—❈—NOTES

(Betteridge cannot cheat on this one.)

Quoting Jane Scharl on Poetry Magazine↩︎—❈—NOTES

Art is not a mere tool for other things.

no efficiency… very little scalability—LIBRARY

Quoting Deb Chachra on “Baumol’s Cost Disease”.