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February 2014

February 17, 2014

Homer, Virgil, and the Theology of the Underworld

Among the host of ways Virgil modifies and develops Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the changes wrought to the...

February 03, 2014

Sitting Just Quietly in God’s Light

One the happiest parts of my life at present is the view out my office...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

“O Spare Me” for the New Year (W.B. Pope)

Should a Christian pray for a longer life on earth? Never mind admitting that that's...

December 16, 2013

The Advent of Good Will

By far my favorite story about the celebration of Christmas is the Christmas truce of...

December 10, 2013

The Classical Question of the Origin of Evil

At a recent panel discussion (ETS 2013 in Baltimore), I was asked to say a...

December 02, 2013

C.S. Lewis: on faces and how to get them

This morning, Fred Sanders and I participated in a chapel honoring C.S. Lewis' life and...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

A Culture of Secrets and Intimidation

Richie Incognito’s alleged harassment of his Miami Dolphins’ teammate Jonathan Martin has been in the...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

The Glory of God

If God’s glory falls in the middle of the cosmos, and no one’s there to...

October 12, 2013

Iconography of Cain and Abel

I can't take the time to give proper commentary on these images, but I just...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

The Must-read Medieval Authors

This summer I was fortunate to have two chapters that I wrote published in an...

September 22, 2013

Enamel Trinitarianism

The church of St. Servatius in Siegburg, Germany has a treasure room full of medieval...

September 10, 2013

On the Road with the Noonday Demon

There’s a great deal of gold to be found in the writings of early Christian...

August 2013

August 19, 2013

A Mind Curved in on Itself

“So, what are you working on?” she might ask. This is how these grad school...

August 12, 2013

Ashes and Life

This summer a neighbor of mine died. I had gotten to know Jim and his...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Time

We are all past, present, and future. While our lives may be bound in the...

July 21, 2013

An Empty Wardrobe

I’ve made it a habit to avoid movies starring Johnny Depp. There are many things...

July 08, 2013

On Being the Local Church: A Musing

Last December I helped plant a new church in La Mirada – Anglican Church of...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

No Suspense: Justice Scalia and Gay Marriage

My guess is that Antonin Scalia has newfound sympathy for Terry Lee Collins, that hapless...

June 10, 2013

Schleiermacher was Wrong

As I celebrated the graduation of the Torrey Honors Institute class of 2013, I took...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

“You Are Opening the Doors to Every Demon” (Barth circa 1935)

Around 1935, Karl Barth developed a style of speaking and writing that cut through a...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Doubting 101

This week Fred Sanders posted a link to a meditation on Barth and the experience...

April 22, 2013

A University Should Be a University

I am fairly certain that John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University has been...

April 16, 2013

Reminding God of the Brevity of Human Life

I’d like to suggest an alternative to the common understanding of a well-known verse. Verse...

April 11, 2013

Towards The Eternal City: St. Augustine’s Theology of History

It is quite common to hear from various Christian circles on how we must influence...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

What Rob Bells Talks About When He Talks About God

Rob Bell's new book just came out. In its title, borrowed from one of Raymond...

March 19, 2013

Celebrating in the Desert

One thing I learned late, growing up in my evangelical Christian community, was the rhythm...

March 04, 2013

Getting Back to the (Dating) Basics

I spend most of my time working with undergraduate students, directing them academically through the...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Hebrews: The Mind-blowing Finale

The book of Hebrews is the grand finale of the first semester in the Torrey...

February 18, 2013

Only the Lonely

I happened to be re-reading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment the same weekend that we hosted...

February 04, 2013

What Stephen Saw, We Hear

At the very beginning of the Christian church, before it was ever called "Christian" or...