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Category: Theology

Living the End Now?

Everyone is hoping for an end to our present COVID-19 crisis. It is one of the few hopes that is truly universal in our divisive

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May 11, 2020 No Comments

Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh

It is possible to characterize what happened with these early humans as just the emergence of some new skills, and that is certainly true. But

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April 22, 2020 No Comments

Aliens and the Person of Christ; or Whether Aliens Can Be Saved

You don’t have to search the interwebs very long to find a lively discussion on what effects the discovery of extraterrestrial life would have on

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April 20, 2020 No Comments

Learning Theology and Ethics from The Life of a Slave Girl

In her Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Harriet Jacobs, writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent, relates her birth into and escape

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March 16, 2020 No Comments

The Hazards and Benefits of Studying Theology

There are lots of reservations when it comes to the study of theology. Some people believe that all they need is to acknowledge that they

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December 16, 2019 No Comments

There Are No “Better” People

A friend of mine works at an elite liberal arts college in the US. All employees were required to attend a mandatory training on inclusivity

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October 9, 2019 No Comments

God—Hidden in Plain Sight

It is God’s desire not to have anyone perish but to come to repentance (2 Pet 3:9). You would think, then, that God’s existence would

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October 7, 2019 No Comments

Crux probat omnes discordias

This summer congregations that follow the Revised Common Lectionary were forced to grapple with one of Jesus’s more unsettling pronunciations: “Do you think that I

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September 9, 2019 No Comments

Edgar Allen Poe’s Warning to Theologians

The summer after I graduated high school, I became infatuated with Edgar Allen Poe. Perhaps it was because the thought of leaving home and being

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July 22, 2019 No Comments

In Defense of the Trinity

Not that God needs defending. God doesn’t need defending. But I have two friends—one ordained, one lay, both theologians—who don’t think the concept of the

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July 1, 2019 No Comments
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