Resident Theologian

A link to my latest essay in The Public Discourse.

A link to my latest column for Christianity Today.

A link to my essay in the latest issue of First Things.

A link to my essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

A link to my latest column in Christianity Today.

What is Dad TV? I propose an answer.

A mini-typology of different approaches to Christian higher education.

Reading everything an author has written, or at least ten of his or her books. What’s your ten-plus list? Who do you hope to add to it?

A link to my latest CT column on the sacrament of baptism.

A long excerpt from Robert Farrar Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb.

A long reflection on an essay by Nicholas Carr engaging L. M. Sacasas about enchantment, reality, and contemplation.

A lightly edited transcript of a very special conversation.

A link to my essay on Gen Z, reading, and self-taught learning in a postliterate age.

One more reflection on literacy, biblicism, and lay reading of Scripture.

A link to my review of Douthat’s new book on religion in Christianity Today.

A link to my latest piece for CT.

A link to my latest essay.

On reading in the tradition of Alexander Campbell.

Links to two new essays just published online.

A rundown of the year on the blog.

My year in reading, with ranked lists and categories.

A list of what I published this year, replete with links and a bit of commentary.

A list of the 100 living essayists, journalists, and bloggers I always read, no matter what.

A link to my latest column for Christianity Today.

A link to my new piece in Christianity Today arguing against euthanasia.

The headline says it all. Read on for more details!

Ten thoughts on Percival Everett’s novel James, a revisionist take on Mark Twain’s Huck Finn and winner of the National Book Award.

A link to my review of Jordan Peterson’s allegorical commentary on the Torah in Christianity Today.

Links to my two latest columns for Christianity Today.

Two quotes: one from David Graeber and one from Wendell Berry.