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February 2018

February 27, 2018

What community theater has taught me about incarnation

And how preparing to play a Shakespearean villain has inspired me to reflect on New...

April 2017

April 20, 2017

Faith & Fidelity: Part 5, The Purpose of Faith

What is the purpose of faith? It is the same as God's purpose for everything...

May 2015

May 04, 2015

Idolatry: Staring at Your Own Finger

A month or so ago I was trying to put Samuel (one and a half)...

April 2015

April 10, 2015

Abandon Hope: Dante, Swedenborg, and the Eternity of Hell

I’m looking forward to reading Rod Dreher’s upcoming book How Dante Can Save Your Life, about...

November 2013

November 05, 2013

Our Life After Death

This blog post is a reflection on the book Our Life After Death, recently published...

May 2013

May 02, 2013

Book Review: In the Presence of Angels

This blog post is part of the Patheos Book Club discussion of In the Presence...

May 01, 2013

God Means It For Good

In the sermon I preached this past Sunday (available here), I mentioned a book, The...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Does the World Need Another Book on Johnny Appleseed?

This post is part of the Patheos Book Club roundtable discussion of The Core of...

October 18, 2012

Brothers

This post is part of the Patheos Book Club roundtable discussion of Ghost Brother Angel by Grant...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

The Problem with Study Bibles

I hate study Bibles. Why? Same reason I hated textbooks in high school: an authoritative...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Chapter 1 of “12 Miracles”: “Healing from Feelings of Unworthiness”

This post is part of a series on 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth by E....

May 21, 2012

12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: Introduction

(E. Kent Rogers, 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: A Path of Healing from the Gospels, Swedenborg Foundation...

December 2011

December 01, 2011

Book Review: The Hidden Levels of the Mind by Douglas Taylor

At some point in college, I got fed up with theological charts and diagrams. Attending...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

The Deeper Meaning in Tiffany’s Swedenborgian Angels

On Monday I received my copy of Tiffany’s Swedenborgian Angels by Mary Lou Bertucci and...

November 17, 2011

How Helen Keller (And I) Would Help the World

There’s a scene in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that I imagine most...

August 2011

August 15, 2011

Wisdom from Father Zosima

Crime and Punishment is my favourite novel. And yet somehow I've managed to never read...

April 2011

April 18, 2011

Book Review: “Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, and the American Story” by Howard Means

Howard Means’s new biography of John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed) has been garnering some publicity...

June 2010

June 03, 2010

The Upside of Irrationality

An interesting article from the Boston Globe today about a new book by behavioural economist...

April 2010

April 30, 2010

Rev. Jonathan Rose in “Heaven”

In Monday's New York Times, Mark Oppenheimer reviews a new book by Lisa Miller entitled Heaven: Our Enduring...