How we read the Bible is always shaped by our context, but I can’t wait until the day when my mind stops seeing Scripture in terms of a pandemic. Just before I came to this morning’s lectionary selection from Psalm 31, for example, I saw a news report about the possibility that we’ll all start … More The With-God Life: Deliverance from Enemies
I probably won’t get through all of these before classes start up again, but expect to see posts inspired by these books on my summer reading list: Peter Englund, The Sorrow and the Beauty: An Intimate History of the First World War Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 … More My Summer Reading List
I don’t normally post anything in the evening (WordPress wasn’t letting me edit anything until now), but this has already been an abnormal day in other respects. My mother-in-law is up for a visit, so while our kids stayed home with grandma I put in a rare Tuesday at work. As a result, I got … More Scholarship, Contemplation, and Holiness
The Pietist Schoolman 