The Difficulty of Reading
Amidst switching between three different reading communities (undergraduate and two different graduate school settings), I have been faced with a certain kind of...
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On Forgetting Our Many Horizons
Sometimes Christians run the danger of creating too much of an epistemological gap between the “us” (Christian) and the “them” (secular). This danger is often done as a...
Read MoreBiblical Authority and the Primacy of Gift
What I believe has been missing in the discussion on the authority of scripture is the notion of gift. Because scripture is living and breathing, because scripture is...
Read MoreCan Promises Be Trusted?
In the recent past or near future over half the contributors to this blog will have made some of the most important promises of their lives in the form of wedding vows....
Read MoreRats, Words, and the Human World
In 2010 Radiolab ran a story on words, the first act of which was titled “Words that Change the World” (if you don’t know what Radiolab is, you should check it out—it’s...
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