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November 2021

November 17, 2021

What Happened When I Sang the Psalm

Thought and Song When revivalists—traveling preachers— would come to my childhood church for a special...

November 13, 2021

Can There Be a Theology of Poetry?

Therefore the mind finds metaphor. ... How I see better what is there after sitting...

November 10, 2021

Humility and Greatness: Should Christians Aim for Excellence?

The Humility Trap There is a character trap close to the surface of the Christian...

November 06, 2021

God Intended Limit as Gift

If the Genesis story is to be believed, the toughest part of being human is...

November 03, 2021

Why I called my book _Leaving Emmaus_

This fall Baylor University Press was generous enough to publish my third book, one I...

October 2021

October 30, 2021

Tolstoy’s Bold Theology

“I couldn’t paint a Christ that was not in my soul.” -Mikhailov, in Tolstoy’s Anna...

October 27, 2021

Resentment and Rejoicing in the Psalms

Many, even most, of the Psalms bring the reader to a moment when the energy,...

October 23, 2021

Holy Leisure and the Climate Emergency

Should we prefer the active or the contemplative life? My students and I have been...

October 20, 2021

Contemplation of a Child

The Burning Bush There is a burning bush at the heart of all things, Maximus...

October 16, 2021

Faith as Affection

What does it mean, Christianly speaking, to have faith? When I was 20 I went...

October 13, 2021

Can a Place Make Us Holy?

Is there theological significance to belonging to a place? This question is on my mind...

October 09, 2021

The Cross as the Meaning of Suffering

The posts in this column contemplate our diagonal connection to God. I have written here,...

October 06, 2021

Sin (and Sociopaths. And Vampires)

Sin, Maximus the Confessor (d. 662 A. D.) tells us, is wanting the things of...

October 02, 2021

Coffee with Maximus: The Five Stages of Contemplating God

Contemplating God The posts in this column speak, directly or indirectly, about contemplating God. But...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Speaking My Truth, with Falstaff

What does it mean to be true to ourselves? Should I aim to speak “my...

September 29, 2021

Yahweh: The God beyond Verb Tenses

In Exodus, when God reveals God’s proper true name to Moses, God makes up a...

September 28, 2021

Human Energy, Divine Revelation

Where should we look if we wish to see the hand of God at work?...