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February 2022

February 02, 2022

Is God Perfect?

“Has God forgotten to be gracious?” I love that question in Psalm 77. Like so...

January 2022

January 15, 2022

Does God Have Ideas? 

Theologians—especially premodern ones—often use the language of divine ideas to talk about God’s work of...

November 2021

November 20, 2021

Participating in God

All Things in Relation to God The goal of all Christian doctrine is to name...

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 16, 2021

Faith as Affection

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

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...

September 2021

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?...

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