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Griffiths on Gift: Being Creatures
Coming to Paul Griffiths’ Intellectual Appetites with the still-tender scars of a years-long academic engagement in which post-modern thought on “gift” was a major combatant, I read Chapter Five,...
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Luke Anthology
Next Sunday the gospel reading in the lectionary comes from Luke 15, the chapter that recounts three of Jesus’ parables about the lost: the parable of the lost sheep, the parable of the lost coin, and...
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Thoughts on Academic Community
Wendell Berry writes* that there is “a kind of knowledge, inestimably valuable and probably indispensable, that comes out of common culture and that cannot be taught as a part of the formal curriculum...
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Dinner at the Pharisee’s House
Hospitality is hard. It brings chaos into our lives. It upsets our tidy order. But we are commanded to practice hospitality because God has already shown radical hospitality toward us. Our human...
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Crucifixion
As we enter Holy Week, we begin to walk with Jesus toward the cross. The gospel accounts of the crucifixion describe many people who are involved with Jesus’ suffering and death, and their responses to...
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Resurrection
We know the Easter story. We know the joy and amazement and gratitude that we are supposed to feel. But sometimes we can get so caught up trying to put on the feelings we’re supposed to have that we...
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On Being Protested by Westboro Baptist Church
Last week, a notorious hate-group called Westboro Baptist Church announced that it would be protesting my university for…reasons. They denounced the “terrorist Jesuits” running our school, and attacked...
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Road to Emmaus
The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus complements the story we looked at last week, where Mary first mistakes Jesus for the gardener and then recognizes him as the risen Christ. The...
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Life of Paul
The Easter season is a time of celebration and proclamation. We celebrate the good news of Jesus’ resurrection, and we follow the example of Mary Magdalene and the disciples whom Jesus met on the road...
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
While we generally focus on the more happy parts of Easter—the empty tomb, the glorified Christ, and the brightly colored plastic easter eggs filled with candy—the new life that Jesus brings still...
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Vision of the New Jerusalem
The last full illumination in The Saint John’s Bible celebrates the New Jerusalem that will descend to earth as the fulfillment of the redemption set in motion by Jesus’ incarnation, death, and...
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Raising of Lazarus
Jesus’ most spectacular miracle, one that forced witnesses to either believe in him or violently reject him, was raising Lazarus from the dead. John’s narration of this miracle focuses on the various...
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Pentecost
Next week the Western church celebrates the feast of Pentecost, the birth of the church. On this day, the church became the embodiment of Jesus on earth, and we celebrate the Holy Spirit’s power to...
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To My Students: I’m Proud of You
My job as a writing teacher means I give a lot of constructive-criticism type feedback. This is a necessary part of the job, since you wouldn’t improve if I only praised your writing. But praise is...
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At the Intersection: Thinking and Teaching at the Intersection of Theology...
This is the first entry of an ongoing series called “At the Intersection” that profiles the work of academics thinking and teaching at the intersection of two or more academic disciplines. We here at...
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Am I Rubbish? On Academic Impostor Syndrome
A Guest Post by David Russell Mosley I am the worst theologian there is. When I find myself in a group of my “peers” I feel totally inadequate, as if I can be nothing more than a mere popularizer of...
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Educational Technology’s Inflated Promises
I recently came across a slender book that aims to redesign liberal education using digital technologies. Titled Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem, it...
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