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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...
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Pray With an Open Bible
As a younger Christian I used to frequent a second hand book store that was equal parts quality—in terms of titles—and cringe, in just about...
"Should I Even Pray About That?" C. S. Lewis Answers
The Lord’s Prayer opens with that quite peculiar request—”hallowed be your name” (Matthew 6:9); and two lines later has us praying “your will be done”...
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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...
Fridays with Fred: Is Empathy Overrated?
Early on in his Anti-Christ (§2), Friedrich Nietzsche has a series of questions and answers, akin to a catechism or creed. For all his railing against philosophical presuppositions the German...
Why Write? Because the Church's Theology Is Incomplete
In the previous and first instalment of this short series I attempted to make a case for writing, by appealing to its unforeseen blessings. In some ways, it was a...
