Resident Theologian
About the Blog
Cover! Title! Blurbs! Pub date! All the details for my next book…
Read on for all the details about my next book!
My latest: low-tech parenting (in CT) and a review of Burge (in FT)
Links to my two latest pieces.
2025: out of touch
On waking up to the realization that I am out of touch with pop culture.
My (two) latest: reviews of Morell and Huerter, in CT
Links to my two latest reviews in CT.
The greatest threat facing the church today
Thinking out loud about answers in response to this question.
My latest: a plea for screen-free church, in CT
A link to my new piece on screen-free worship for Christianity Today.
Boys and video games in different stages of life
Thinking about the place of video games in boys' lives: preteen, teens, twenties, and thirties.
More screens, more distractions; fewer screens, fewer distractions
A vision for the design of our shared spaces, especially public worship.
It costs you nothing not to be on social media
One of my biannual public service announcements regarding social media.
A.I., TikTok, and saying “I would prefer not to”
Finding wisdom in Bartleby for a tech-addled age.
Screentopia
A rant about the concern trolls who think the rest of us are too alarmist about children, screens, social media, and smartphones.
All together now: social media is bad for reading
A brief screed about what we all know to be true: social media is bad for reading.