Resident Theologian
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Cover! Title! Blurbs! Pub date! All the details for my next book…
Read on for all the details about my next book!
2024: writing
A list of what I published this year, replete with links and a bit of commentary.
Links to a passel of podcast appearances (and a few reviews)
Just what the title says: links to pods and reviews.
It’s publication day! The Church: A Guide to the People of God is here!
It’s out! At long last! Order a copy today!
Letters to a Future Saint: cover, blurbs, pub date, and more!
The title says it all. Click on to see the cover and endorsements and more!
The Church: cover, blurbs, pub date, and Amazon pre-order page!
Sharing the cover, blurbs, and publication date for my new book The Church: A Guide to the People of God.
2024: forthcoming
Coming attractions for the new year: two books, a sabbatical, and a passel of essays.
Writing for a Tier 2 audience
Reflections on how to write accessibly for a lay Christian audience.
Four tiers of Christian/theological publishing
A long reflection on four tiers or levels of Christian/theological writing in terms of style, accessibility, sales, and audience.
A new book contract! And other coming attractions
Happy news to share about a new book contract with Eerdmans! Plus a list of additional forthcoming writing projects: other books as well as essays and reviews.
Around the web
Links to reviews and engagements around the web from the past month or so. Plus, a price drop on book #2!
Rules for reviewing and being reviewed
Twelve rules for writing book reviews, followed by twelve rules for being reviewed as the author of a book.
I’m in LARB on Hauerwas, Barth, and Christendom
This morning Los Angeles Review of Books published an essay review of mine on Stanley Hauerwas’s latest book, which came out earlier this year, titled Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth.
I’m on the Crackers & Grape Juice podcast
Back in May Jason Micheli was kind enough to have me on the Crackers & Grape Juice podcast to talk about The Church’s Book. I’ve known about the C&GJ pod since they had Robert Jenson on in 2017, only months before he died. Jason believes in avoiding the Q&A format of typical interviews and just having a conversation, and that’s just what we did; it was a blast. I hope y’all enjoy.
On pastors embarrassed to say the great word “God”
The temptations of the immanent frame are often greater for pastors than for the people in the pews, writes Andrew Root.