On Remembering Scripture—JOURNAL

Time to stop leaning so hard on search.

A Decadal Kind of Change—JOURNAL

Rethinking this site — and my own vocations — as the 2010s give way to the 2020s.

Fall-Centered Theological Anthropologies—LIBRARY

God’s self-commitment to creatures—LIBRARY

The Triune Creator’s Relating to Creation—LIBRARY

Waiting for Communion—JOURNAL

A coronavirus reminder of our place in the time between the times.

All places tell stories—LIBRARY

On “Saints”—JOURNAL

Should we prepend the term to “Paul” or “Augustine”?

This Week I Learned #3—JOURNAL

Less reading this week… because more composing.

Presence—JOURNAL

A few notes on God-with-us in his Word and at his Table.

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

Humans of Open Source↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Chatting with Sean Chen about open source, Christian humanism, and working in public.

Christian Theology’s Place in the University—LIBRARY

Or, John Webster cracking very wise.

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.

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?

Politics & The Order of Love—LIBRARY

A good book, if not quite the one I hoped for.

Finding Holy in the Suburbs—LIBRARY

A solid popular-level book — which I wish pushed just a little harder than it does.

God teaches us—LIBRARY

the unholy science?—LIBRARY

an exercise of holiness—LIBRARY

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

We speak in God’s presence—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

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

Two quotes on creatio ex nihilo —LIBRARY

creation is pure generosity—LIBRARY

Praising God—LIBRARY

Two quotes from a John Webster sermon of the same title: on worship, and the one worshipped.

Theological Anthropology Comes First—JOURNAL

You don’t get a healthy politics if you answer the question “What is a human?” incorrectly.

Spiritual Experiences — Intellectual and Emotional—JOURNAL

A warning.

…revelation disturbs —LIBRARY

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

God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology – Volume I: God and the Works of God —LIBRARY

The first of two volumes of collected essays and papers by John Webster. Very, very scholarly.

…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

A question of authority—LIBRARY

On Brad East’s approach to Scripture and Tradition.

The Lord’s Prayer—ELSEWHERE

The manuscript for a sermon on Luke 11:1 – 13.

the possibility of being caught off guard—LIBRARY

The Great Unmooring↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

At Mere O, on Richard Sennett’s The Corrosion of Character and Warzel and Petersen’s Out of Office, on work.

creation, incarnation, art, vocation—JOURNAL

Questions Posed—LIBRARY