Resident Theologian
About the Blog
More screens, more distractions; fewer screens, fewer distractions
A vision for the design of our shared spaces, especially public worship.
A decision tree for dealing with digital tech
Is the digital status quo good? If not, our actions (both personal and institutional) should show it.
Four loves follow-up
A brief follow-up to the last post about the state of the four loves in the youngest generations today.
Four loves loss
More than sixty year ago C. S. Lewis wrote a book called The Four Loves. Ever since, his framework has proven a reliable and popular paradigm for thinking about different aspects or modes of love. The terms he uses are storge, eros, philia, and agape; we might loosely translate these as kinship, romance, friendship, and self-giving to and for the other. They denote the love that obtains between members of a family, between spouses in a marriage, between close friends, and between humans and God.
Church people
What does the phrase above mean to you? I can imagine many answers, but here’s a stab at a common enough picture that comes to mind when the phrase is used.
Teaching a 4/4: tradeoffs
In the last post I laid out what a typical work week looks like in terms of one’s allotment of hours when teaching a 4/4 load at a university. In this post I want to compare that to institutional contexts on the other end of the spectrum. Such a comparison shows rather straightforwardly what sort of tradeoffs are involved, from an institutional perspective, when professors are asked to teach more or fewer courses; in this case, tradeoffs concerning quantity and quality of publication.