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In his book The Affections of Christ Jesus: Love at the Heart of Paul’s Theology, scholar Nijay Gupta weighs in on the significance of a Pauline corpus which, giving little to no mention of the ministry of Jesus that is the central focus of the Gospels, defines itself according to its awareness of and concernContinue reading “The Affections of Christ Jesus and The Vision of Ephesians: Finding Love at the Intersection of Paul and Jesus”

Capturing this milestone in my book logging by marking the book: The Gospel of Being Human: How Asking Better Questions of the Bible Reveals Who We Are by Marty Solomon and Reed Dent If Marty Solomon’s Asking Better Questions of the Bible: A Guide for the Wounded, Wary, and Longing for More navigated the precariousContinue reading “Milestones and Important Books: The Gospel of Being Human at 1300 Books and Almost 50 Years of Living”

“This is a book for adults. More specifically, this is a book for adults about books for children.” In the opening pages of his new book on the nature of children’s literature and why it matters to both children and adults, Barnett establishes the neccessary rule for the ensuing discussion: “When it comes to children’sContinue reading “The Classics and the Children: Finding The Necessary Conversation Between My Child and Adult Selves in Mary Beard’s Talking Classics and Marc Barnett’s Make Believe”

Listening to the new Switchfoot album, which for me will always be an event, one could label it a passion project, and it has certainly been a while in the making. The product of where the bandmates find themselves in this present moment, wrestling with songs that seek to find the power of the presentContinue reading “Why Do We Fear AI: Some Thoughts in Conversation With Switchfoots Forever Now”

Feels redundant to keep saying after every new release from Zahnd that this feels like his most personal and vulnerable project to date. That was true for The Wood Between the Worlds. It seems equally true for his newest, Unseen Existences. A book that arguably works to break into the present trend in Christian scholarshipContinue reading “Unseen Existences: Brian Zahnd and Reclaiming a Theology of Heaven in a World Where The Tyranny of Materialism Looms Large”

In the recent Toy Story film (Toy Story 5), we find the creators moving to tackle the quintessential modern crisis: our relationship to technology, and specifically the epidemics of addiction and social/psychological illness it has created for the younger generations (not to mention the older ones still existing with one foot in both worlds). ThisContinue reading “Toy Story 5 and Make Believe: A Conversation on Childhood Imagination and The Act of Growing Up”

*a transcript of a recent sermon I gave on “serve one another.” When I was asked to take part in this series over at Faith Covenant I had to take a second to think through how long my wife Jen and I have been attending that church: coming on 14 years, which feels wild. That’sContinue reading “To Serve One Another: Risking The Tension of Our Life In Christ”

Time travel, a timeless city, a river and an apostle. Envoloping all of this were two complimentary (and massive) historical works, one about the global history of capitalism, the other about applying a European lens to that global history I had timed finishing my reading of famed Survivor (play, voice and anaylst) legend’s first bookContinue reading “My Reading Journey: May”

A Call to Persevere 19 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us approach with aContinue reading “The Hope of One Another as a Reclamation of Wonder”

I was going through some of the unpublished drafts that I’ve saved over the years in my blogspace. Most of these are unfinished pieces, notes that I took on books or articles, thoughts I jotted down but never fleshed out. I came across a couple I composed close together that were ruminating on the conceptContinue reading “Old Drafts, Ruminations on Time, and Further Thoughts About the Nature of This Reality”