Resident Theologian
About the Blog
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Some reflections on Stephen Graham Jones’s great vampire novel of how the west was lost.
My latest: Luddite pedagogy, in the CHE
A link to my essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The ten-plus authors club
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?
My latest: on generation autodidact, in Mockingbird
A link to my essay on Gen Z, reading, and self-taught learning in a postliterate age.
An old-fashioned (annotated) blogroll
A list of the 100 living essayists, journalists, and bloggers I always read, no matter what.
My latest: on pastors’ reading habits, in Sapientia
A link to my essay on the role of fiction and poetry in pastors' regular reading diet.
My latest: the rise of digital lectors, in CT
A link to my latest column for Christianity Today, a sequel to my piece on biblical literacy and the postliterate church.
My latest: biblical literacy in a postliterate age, for CT
A link to my latest column for Christianity Today.
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.
Four tiers, forty authors
Assigning forty authors to precise spots across the four tiers of Christian publishing.
So you want to get a PhD in theology
At long last, a primer on pursuing a PhD in theology—whether, how, why, where, and what it looks like. All in a breezy 5,000 words…
Writing for a Tier 2 audience
Reflections on how to write accessibly for a lay Christian audience.
Twenty texts for twenty centuries
Choosing twenty Christian texts from twenty Christian centuries, one text per century. I offer my list. What would yours be?
Young Christians (not) reading, 2
Further reflections on young Christians today and their reading habits (or rather, lack thereof).
Who are young Christians reading today?
What living authors are writing books that intellectually serious 15-25-year old American Christians are reading today? Are there any? Are they good? A failed attempt at an answer.