Resident Theologian
About the Blog
My latest: on Volf/McAnnally-Linz’s Home of God, for Syndicate
A link to my part of a symposium on The Home of God by Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz.
My latest: biblical literacy in a postliterate age, for CT
A link to my latest column for Christianity Today.
No true cessationist
A reflection on signs and wonders in the present and why it is that I’ve yet to find a real-life, flesh-and-blood cessationist willing to defend the doctrine.
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.
My latest: how (not) to talk about Christian nationalism, in CT
A link to my latest column in Christianity Today, which argues that we should retire the term “Christian nationalism” for good.
My latest: on Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis in LARB
A link to my review of Marilynne Robinson’s new book, Reading Genesis, in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
The metaphysics of historical criticism
Fifty metaphysical propositions that underwrite the practice of “historical-critical” biblical scholarship.
My latest: on Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels, in Hedgehog Review
Link to and except from my latest essay: a reflection on the politics of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels in The Hedgehog Review.
Biblicism can’t get you where you want to go
A friendly debate with Matthew Lee Anderson about sexual ethics, biblicism, and magisterial authority.
My latest: on faith and doubt in CT
A link to my column in Christianity Today on faith, doubt, and what makes Christianity hard.
My latest: a review of Christian Wiman in Comment
A link to and excerpt from my essay review of Christian Wiman’s new book, Zero at the Bone.
My latest: a review of John Mark Comer in CT
A link to and excerpt from my review of John Mark Comer’s latest book in Christianity Today.
If Lewis wrote today
What would American evangelicals make of C. S. Lewis if he were alive and writing today?
My latest: on lights and liturgy, in CT
A link to my latest article for Christianity Today, on lights, liturgy, and American practices of worship in contemporary evangelicalism.
A tech-attitude taxonomy
A taxonomy of eleven different dispositions to technological development, especially in a digital age.
Four tiers, forty authors
Assigning forty authors to precise spots across the four tiers of Christian publishing.
My latest: a review of Matthew Thiessen on the Jewish Paul
A link to my review of Matthew Thiessen’s book A Jewish Paul: The Messiah’s Herald to the Gentiles.