Thursday, March 31, 2022

Late to the party and not dressed for it

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And let us note again, it [creation] is constant in its faithfulness and ever eager to praise. Simply by being themselves, all creatures exu...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Back into bondage

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Still, many continue to objectify nature and separate humanity from it. And neoliberals in particular, prone to reinterpret everything in te...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Brutal truth

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The early liberal attitude to nature is most famously summarized in the words of the Englishman Francis Bacon, a seventeenth-century philoso...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Exploit it! (But at what cost?)

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Both those now commonly designated “liberals” and those designated “conservatives” have roots in a historical, encompassing liberalism. As s...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Subject to futlility

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The antithesis between the “church” and the “world,” which is certainly a Pauline and Johannine motif, here needs to be carefully understood...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

But how?

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For Christian engagement with the world, then, patriotically and otherwise, the key word is judiciousness , and the methods are ad hoc. The ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Where then the motherland?

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The point, in short, is that though I firmly reject the messianic, militaristic nationalism sketched earlier, I do not disavow a judicious, c...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Grasping for Control

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Thus [Luke] Bretherton insists that Christians, living in the time between the times, “do not have to establish regimes to control the time ...
Friday, March 11, 2022

New book coming out on Greek Prepositions

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William Ross has the great news. The book from his and Steve Runge's Tyndale Workshop on Greek prepositions is going to be out in Novem...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

The "sacrifice" of war

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Accordingly, we commonly say that in war, we “sacrifice” our sons and daughters. Taken at all seriously, this amounts to child sacrifice—a pra...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

The glory of war?

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As the early twentieth-century cultural critic Randolph Bourne memorably remarked, “War is the health of the State.” Nothing unites the atom...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Christian nationalism has a history

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Nationalism has been entangled with religion—or has served more or less directly as a religion—from its beginnings. Early nationalisms were ...
Monday, March 07, 2022

Your vision is too small

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New creation has arrived [Galatians], though it is not yet fully manifested. In it, the capacious economy of God has been revealed. Beside i...
Friday, March 04, 2022

The lust of the eyes

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In light of the apocalypse, the church can at least be honest about the shortcomings of neoliberal capitalism. As Hart writes, “It eventuate...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

What are you afraid of? That your theology might be defective?

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“Simply said, ” David Bentley Hart observes, “the earliest Christians were communists . . . , not as an accident of history but as an impera...
Wednesday, March 02, 2022

and that's guidance?!

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At a basic level, the market qua market exhibits moral idiocy This can be confirmed by a walk through the common drugstore. Cigarettes are st...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Character Styles in Word for Mac 2019

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This post is mainly for my own benefit, as I will likely forget this. If you find it helpful, great. As a copyeditor, I am sometimes aske...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The cheapening of marriage

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Neoliberal capitalism inhibits the Christian practice of marriage and family because the market has overrun its boundaries. We face a bellig...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Contract versus covenant

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Neoliberal contractualism is hemmed about by qualifications; its form of marriage is enamored of contractual arrangements such as no-fault di...
Friday, February 18, 2022

What kind of god?

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Note well that this covenant fidelity of Yahweh represents a particular kind of divinity. The Greek gods, after all, put no premium on fidelit...