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January 2013

January 16, 2013

Form: How a Marriage is Like a Poem (Wendell Berry)

In his 1982 essay "Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms," Wendell Berry used...

December 2012

December 10, 2012

The Wily Work of the Gibeonites

Several years ago I preached a sermon on Joshua 9, a chapter my Bible titles,...

December 03, 2012

Doing Theology with Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer whose music, both secular and sacred, was influential...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Giles of Viterbo: The Humanist Scholastic

The Commentary on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus, by Giles of Viterbo. Giles of...

November 05, 2012

In Defense of Cinderella: The Dress

I have a near-three-year-old girl...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

General Honors 1920 and Torrey Honors 2012

In the Torrey Honors Institute we read Western classics; then we sit in a circle...

October 23, 2012

Progress for the Sake of…

As I was driving around LA the other day listening to NPR, two stories run...

October 03, 2012

Some Poetry with Your Haircut, Sir?

I like vintage barber shops. Ever since I was a boy, they have been part...

August 2012

August 14, 2012

God the Father’s Sons and Offspring

I've been reading about the doctrine...

August 06, 2012

Remembering the Samwise’s of the World

As you certainly know, Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, recently died. Unfortunately,...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

How to Discuss:
Have Faith, Have Hope, Have Love.

Wheatstone's summer conference just ended. We had a week of great seminars, workshops, cultural events,...

July 11, 2012

Becoming a Christian

Little of the growth in my life comes from learning something new. Instead, it comes...

July 02, 2012

The Need to Work

Another school year has come and gone and summer is now in full swing. In...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Readings on the Trinity (Class Outline)

This is the book list, with short annotations, for a class I teach on the...

June 10, 2012

A Noble Risk:
The Making of a Wheatstone Conference Theme

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

What I learned from John Mark Reynolds

I can still recall the day, seventeen years ago. We were introduced one Sunday by...

May 21, 2012

An Invitation to Education

Most people, if they think about it, probably live their life around some kind of...

May 14, 2012

How to Teach Salvation: Three Mysteries

There are three great mysteries in Christian theology: the Trinity, the incarnation, and the atonement. These...

May 07, 2012

Proving the Resurrection

I’ll admit it. I’m skeptical about attempts to prove the existence of God or, indeed,...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

It’s Been Said.

There was a sweet, confusing couple of years when the Inklings et al. suddenly spoke...

April 23, 2012

Learning from William Ames

They called him by the Latin name Guilliamus Amesius, but if we talk about...

March 2012

March 05, 2012

Lenten Asceticism

As most of you know, we are nearly two weeks into Lent, that forty day...