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C. H. Dodd and the Decline of Corporate Worship
In the course of my undergraduate studies I was introduced to the very refreshing New Testament scholar, C. H. Dodd. Since then I’ve collected and...
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Stop Blaming Martin Luther and the Reformation for Relativism
I don’t listen to many podcasts. But when a friend told me that Tom Holland had done five episodes on Martin Luther at The Rest...
Book Review: The Victory of the Cross (James Payton Jr)
Reading about the Eastern Orthodox tradition bears some similarities to meeting a long lost family member. There are undeniable traits, even recognisable gestures, and patent...
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'What's Best Next'? Three Reasons It Isn't This Book
According to Goodreads, I last finished a book in the November of 2019; since then I’ve been on an incredibly slow-burn with just six books, so my moribund profile says....
Doodle: Our Sin Doesn't Always Make Sense
Earlier this week a friend published an interesting article, titled ‘Deconstruct Your Temptations’. In his words, “each of us are locked in [an] internal moral arms race” between our temptations...
Time Is Finite, But So Are You
I think it was Esther Meeks who said that we don’t use time as much as time does something to us. In our age of near-frenetic productivity and the regrettable...
Some Reading Tips After Reflecting on My Own Habits
In 2013 I started keeping a list of the books I read each year. I can’t account for the decision, but looking over them makes for interesting—well—reading. For example, the...
Five Tips for Becoming a Better Writer
I recently had the opportunity to deliver a short talk to theological students on the writing of assignments. To risk giving away my age, it’s been over four years since...
What Is the Atonement? A Brief Answer
A friend recently reached out to me and asked what theologians mean by the word ‘atonement.’ She’d come across it while reading Oswald Chambers classic, My Utmost for His Highest....
Doodle: J. K. Rowling, Ideologies, and Make-Believe
Around the turn of the year, J. K. Rowling was once again the object of ire on social media. This most recent backlash came after she took to X—formerly known...
Why Write? To Enrich Your Own Faith
The first article in this series considered a recent conversation I had about why theological students won’t write—apart from their academically enforced indulgences. They offered two reasons: firstly, someone more...
