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Showing posts with label 34.35.Vice.Virtue.Character. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 34.35.Vice.Virtue.Character. Show all posts
2025-12-15

FAITH(FULNESS): Actively receiving God’s Grace

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving " . 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part o...
2025-12-12

VIRTUE: Forming Godlikeness within ourselves

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2023-11-19

Wisdom after Bulgakov: A Trinitarian Sophiology

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I recently had an extended discussion with a couple of friends about the nature of Divine Wisdom, which is called Sophia (in Greek) and Hokh...
2022-06-27

The Ethics of Lesser Evils and Greater Goods

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As an ethics teacher and pastor I have noticed that many people reflexively think most choices are a stark contrast between “good versus evi...
2021-12-01

Stupidity as a gateway to Fascism

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These excerpts on stupidity as a gateway to fascism are taken from a circular letter, addressing many topics, which was written by Dietrich ...
2021-01-24

Core Values at TMI Episcopal

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The following is a statement of the Core Values of TMI Episcopal which I developed over a period of several years while working with our Ad...
2021-01-13

Theology and Compassion, Objectivity and Subjectivity

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One of the pastoral and practical tools I use to evaluate theology— besides whether it is Biblical and Creedal and rooted in the Trinity and...
2020-06-06

The Most Damnable Reason

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The most damnable reason for existing  Is to be liked. 
2018-11-18

Virtue, Vice, and Cognitive Distortions

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The chart above is also available in an INTERACTIVE PDF with live links to Scriptures and online materials that elaborate the brief des...
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2018-10-12

On Sickness, Healing, and Unforgiveness

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“But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.” (Jesus, according to M...
2018-07-15

Pontius Pilate and the inversion of Cynicism

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One of the many things that interest me about the Passion narrative in the Gospel of John is how he writes Pilate. Pilate is the epitome...
2017-08-24

On making images

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When taken at their best Even idols give us glimpses Of the God beyond words And reveal that uncontained Other Contained in matter and m...
2017-02-24

Stay in the conversation!

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Just found out that an old mentor of mine, who has taken a hard swerve to the Alt-Right, has blocked me on Facebook. I thought they had ...
2011-07-20

A Politics of Virtue

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I have been struggling for quite some time to figure out where I fit politically, and crystalize it into some coherent form I could communic...
2011-04-09

Ode to Infotainment

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Ode to Infotainment 2011. Nathan L. Bostian In an age of simple slogans and blustery books / How shall we show an argument's lame? ...