Resident Theologian
About the Blog
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.
23 thoughts on The Phantom Menace
Thoughts on Star Wars: Episode I on its 25th anniversary re-release to theaters.
A.I., TikTok, and saying “I would prefer not to”
Finding wisdom in Bartleby for a tech-addled age.
My latest: on incarnation, Theotokos, and abortion, in Commonweal
A link to my latest essay, in Commonweal, on the incarnation, confession of Mary as Theotokos, and the implications for a Christian understanding of abortion.
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!
Un-paywalled: me in Hedgehog Review on Slow Horses
A link to my essay on Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series of spy novels, now out from behind the paywall.
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.