What is Biblical Theology? Why We Need Redemptive-Historical Readings of Scripture

On Saturday I went to explore a new hike with a new book. The hike was the Bull Run-Occoquan Trail (pictured right). The book was N.T. Wright’s new publication The Challenge of…

Right-Wing Wokeism

From my Substack article, “MAGA Goes Woke Will the Real Neo-Marxists Please Stand Up?” Right-wing identity politics is not racism, white supremacy, nor Christian nationalism, though it is adjacent to all three…

From Leisured Letter-Writing to Frenetic Texting…and the Power of the Pause

I thought it would be fun to share a snippet from the new book I’m writing, Submit to the Pause: The Power of Being Slow in a World Going Too Fast. I have…

Answers to Readers’ Questions (UPDATED): Dual Integrities in the ACNA, Gender Complementarianism, Tucker Carlson, and Alexander Dugin

This is an update and expansion of an earlier post, in order to address additional pushback and further reader questions.  In correspondence with readers, I am sometimes asked to comment on debates…

The Importance of the Church Calendar

As we work our way through Holy Week, I wanted to share my explanation of the importance of the church calendar that I offered in Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation. In that…

The Coming AI Take-Over is Worse Than You Think

In a recent article on my Substack, I observed that if a killer robot walked into a city and began turning humans into paperclips, we have a mental map for how to…

The Birth of Rock

Most of the music we listen to and enjoy today has been influenced by rock music. But while rock music, or Rock’n’roll, may be seem familiar, or even old fashion (hence the…

Braszko Chapel Project

My friends, Alex and Jesse Braszko, have been going through a very difficult time as their 18-year-old daughter, Lily, suffers in the last stages of terminal cancer. People were wanting to send…

Cyborg Creep; Cyborg Buzz

I wanted to offer an update on some of the buzz currently surrounding, Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity From the Machine, the book I recently co-authored with Joshua Pauling.…

Why Hardship isn’t Always Bad

Now that Lent is upon us, it is worthwhile to reflect on how we can offer our struggles to God, both involuntary struggles (i.e., sickness and suffering in our families), as well…

Transforming Over-Sensitivity

In Wounded by Love: The Life and Wisdom of St. Porphyrios, the saint addresses the suffering caused by over-sensitivity, and how this type of suffering, like all hardships, can be transformed into a…

Penal Substitutionary Atonement

In N.T. Wright’s book, The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion, he summarizes popular conceptions of the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement as follows. a). All humans sinned,…



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