Resident Theologian
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My latest: gentiles and the Torah, in CT
A link to my latest article for Christianity Today.
My latest: a review of American Heretics, in LARB
A link to my review of Jerome Copulsky’s new book.
My latest: a review of Ryan Burge, in The Lamp
A link to my review of Ryan Burge’s new book in the latest issue of The Lamp.
Evangelical gentrification
An analogy that helps to clarify the nature of the evangelical absorption of Churches of Christ.
My latest: why we shouldn’t pronounce God’s Name, in CT
A link to my latest column for Christianity Today.
My (two) latest: reviews of Morell and Huerter, in CT
Links to my two latest reviews in CT.
My latest: the fate of American Protestantism, in Public Discourse
A link to my latest essay in The Public Discourse.
My latest: on the joys of Dude Perfect, in CT
A link to my latest column for Christianity Today.
My latest: Goldilocks Protestantism, in FT
A link to my essay in the latest issue of First Things.
My latest: Luddite pedagogy, in the CHE
A link to my essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
My latest: why Christians are conspiracy theorists, in CT
A link to my latest column in Christianity Today.
Three types of Christian higher ed
A mini-typology of different approaches to Christian 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: why baptism isn’t optional, in CT
A link to my latest CT column on the sacrament of baptism.
Robert Farrar Capon on God, matter, wine, and things
A long excerpt from Robert Farrar Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb.
Carr, Sacasas, and eloquent reality
A long reflection on an essay by Nicholas Carr engaging L. M. Sacasas about enchantment, reality, and contemplation.
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.