Resident Theologian
About the Blog
My latest: on generation autodidact, in Mockingbird
A link to my essay on Gen Z, reading, and self-taught learning in a postliterate age.
Biblicist churches that don’t read the Bible
One more reflection on literacy, biblicism, and lay reading of Scripture.
My latest: a review of Ross Douthat’s new book, in CT
A link to my review of Douthat’s new book on religion in Christianity Today.
My latest: a review of Wesley Hill’s new book on the resurrection
A link to my latest piece for CT.
My latest: on Houellebecq (in Mere O) and Forgiveness (in Comment)
Links to two new essays just published online.
2024: writing
A list of what I published this year, replete with links and a bit of commentary.
An old-fashioned (annotated) blogroll
A list of the 100 living essayists, journalists, and bloggers I always read, no matter what.
My latest: bloodshed during Christmastide, in CT
A link to my latest column for Christianity Today.
My latest: why Christians oppose Euthanasia, in CT
A link to my new piece in Christianity Today arguing against euthanasia.
Happy news: Letters to a Future Saint is the runner-up for CT’s Book of the Year!
The headline says it all. Read on for more details!
My latest: on Jordan Peterson, in CT
A link to my review of Jordan Peterson’s allegorical commentary on the Torah in Christianity Today.
My latest: on providence and on the saints, both in CT
Links to my two latest columns for Christianity Today.
Graeber on making the world and Berry on attending to it
Two quotes: one from David Graeber and one from Wendell Berry.
Ancient illiteracy
Some scholarly resources and excerpts on how literate (or not) ancient Greeks and Romans were at the time of the early church.