One of the hardest lessons I've had to learn from Christianity is humility. Humbly accepting when you're wrong. Humbly standing firm when you're right. Humbly l...
Peter Enns has written an essay on "The Benefit of Doubt" which is, I think, necessary for many to ponder:
"There is a benefit of doubt. Let me put that more s...
For Jordan Monge
For some time now I have wanted to do a second theological analysis of a piece of popular music; the religious thought of Top 40 musicians i...
I have written fairly often about Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the past (and plan to continue doing so), as both his life and his writings stand out to me as enormous...
It’s not quite Advent yet, but a friend of mine saw Christmas lights being put up the other day, so I suppose that it’s not entirely out of place for me to disc...
To review, here’s the question posed in part I:
C. Marshall: Many Christians invoke their direct experience of Christ as their primary reason for belief in th...
"Vanity of vanities--all is vanity!" cries Qoheleth (or "the preacher") in what is perhaps the most mysterious and eerily modern book in the Old Testament canon...
On Tuesday night I went to an amazing lecture by John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York. He had been invited to Harvard to give the Noble Lectures at Memorial Chu...
Over the summer, I discovered Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s amazing work. I think he might be competing with Simone Weil as one of my favorite theologians. What I love ...
I am a doofus and turned in my laptop for repairs at FAS IT before uploading my blog post. So please forgive me - the "I Take Issue With" series will take off s...