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.

06:40 ❈ — NOTES

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

20:32 ❈ — NOTES

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.

21:46 ❈ — NOTES

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.

18:10 ❈ — NOTES

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