Story’s Dominance of Life
Jonathan Gottschall’s 2012 book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human (Mariner Books) begins with the line from Elie Wiesel’s The Gates of the
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How Jeremiah Leans on Deuteronomy
I have a a post up over at the Reformation 21 site discussing the influence of the book of Deuteronomy on the prophet
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Engagement and Resistance in the Second Temple Period and Today
To what extent did Jews living in Judea after the restoration of Jerusalem in 536 B.C. and before 70 A.D. (commonly referred to as
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To Christians Who Celebrated the Supreme Court Decision But Remain Mum on Planned Parenthood Videos
Over at the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission site, I have a open letter to a certain group of evangelicals whose somewhat odd social media presence
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The Nature of Brooding
Coleridge said something along the lines of how sentimentality is false emotion, the human longing for a lie. If this is true, then agrarian
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A Community of Joyful Exiles and Penitent Strangers
I have a post over at the Christward Collective about the dynamics of exile for the people of God living in a culture
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Public Expressions of the Gospel
Explicit public expressions of the gospel in popular culture are few and far between. We just do not see many public examples of the
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Another Kind of Woman
Anne Chamberlin has a post at TGC remembering the feisty and wise Elizabeth Elliot, whom she calls a third way woman. I met
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Chronological Snobbery Works Both Ways
Above: Cuneiform signs from René Labat’s wonderfully handwritten Manuel D’Épigrahie Akkadienne. Great quotes from the Older-Is-Always-Better movement. “This agreed upon language is so prescribed.
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Biblical Theology is Public Theology
One need not look beyond the first chapter of the Bible to see that biblical theology is a public theology. We might even
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