Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality centered on the Trinity and Incarnation, experienced through Theosis, in Sacramental Life, leading to Apokatastasis, explored in maximally inclusive ways. And other random stuff.
2024-08-19
The Incarnation and divine embodiments
2024-06-18
World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts
2024-06-14
Metric Maladies: The Disease of elevating Quantity over Quality
2024-06-03
The Entangled Reality of Spirit and Water Baptism
Ever since I began following Jesus in my late teens, I have read about the debate over the nature, efficacy, and relationship between Spirit baptism and Water baptism. Are these two separate events? Are they one event? Does one lead to the other? Does one exclude the other? To unpack this, here are some preliminary definitions and some Scriptural sources they draw on:
2024-03-18
Acts and Afterlife, Hope and Gospel
2024-03-17
You are a Theophany
2024-03-09
Wittgenstein and Hope beyond hope
2024-02-04
Provocation on Revisionists, Traditionalists, and Jesus
2023-12-02
The Panentheism of Creation in Christ
2023-11-20
Constantine and the Complicated Canon of Scripture
2023-11-19
Wisdom after Bulgakov: A Trinitarian Sophiology
2023-11-14
Theses on Protecting the Innocent in Wartime
2023-11-09
Wrestling with God across Scripture and Life
Do you feel like you are wrestling with God through the trials and tribulations of life? You are not alone. Following God and being guided by God is not a matter of passive obedience and easy belief, but of passionate engagement and wrestling with God through the worst of life. This is illustrated in the life of Jacob, who wrestled emotionally with the consequences of running from one swindle to the next, endangering himself and his family and leaving a trail of destruction. In the midst of this emotional struggle, he encounters and wrestles with God: