My Soccer Kit: The Gear I Use for Playing Soccer
What Shall We Do With a Would-Be Tyrant? A Sea Shanty for Democracy
Roll the Old Republic Along: A Sea Shanty for Democracy
When Romans 13 Meets Matthew 25: Immigration Ethics
Theology Against Nationalism: 10 Theses from Michael Gorman
He Looked for Justice, but Behold, Bloodshed!
How to Have a Theological Argument Without Hating Each Other
Against Christian Misanthropy: Why Following Jesus Means Embracing Human Flourishing
Tech Hype and the Growing Chasm
How to Find Your Life’s Purpose: Helpful Advice from Daniel Pink
How Do You Make Friends as a Tired Introvert in Your 30s? A Dad’s Honest Ask for Advice
A Citizen’s Manifesto: Working Principles for Democratic Renewal
14 Characteristics of Fascism: Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism
198 Ways to Fight Tyranny: Methods of Nonviolent Action from Gene Sharp
20 Ways to Fight Tyranny: Lessons from Timothy Snyder
14 Youtube Channels I Like
The Bible Is Clear about the Poor, Oppressed, and Marginalized
Real-World Authorization Lessons with OpenFGA? I’d Love to Hear Them
When the Government Can Kidnap Without Trial, None of Us Are Safe
Devs: How Does Your Personal Laptop Compare to Your Work Laptop?
My Vintage 1947 Craftsman 113 Table Saw
Authorization, Continued: Experimenting with OpenFGA, Topaz, and Permify
This Shouldn’t Be Controversial
Devs! Let’s Talk Authorization
Stay Woke! Ephesians 5:11-14
Diagnostic Toos for Homeowners
Questions at the Start of My Notebook
What is the Best Budget Smart TV?
Dinner Prayer Highlights from Our 4-Year-Old
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: Extra Verses
Troubleshooting Hugo to Micro.blog Crossposting
Five Questions for Coming to Grips with Your Life
Ten Tools for Embracing Finitude
Ask Me Anything This November: WeblogPoMo AMA
Requiem for a Cousin on His Birthday
10 Things I Love About My Kids
I Love My Kids, But I Sometimes Regret Having Them
Help, I’m Addicted to Mini Toolkits: The EDC Tool Struggle Is Real
You Can’t Follow Jesus and Hate Immigrants
Christianity and Politics: My 2024 Reading List
6 Things I’m Excited About (2024-08-04)
Home Improvement Roadmap and Roadblocks
Know Thyself: Unveiling Your Unique Strengths and Personality Traits
Finding a Hat for My Big, Bald Head
The Problem of Ecclesiastical Evil
25 Possibly Unpopular Opinions about Church
I’m Resigning from Ordained Ministry in the Anglican Church in North America
Life Lessons: 32 Things I’ve Learned So Far
Anyone Can Use AI Tools: Here’s How
Avoiding Online Scams: A Simple Guide for Non-Tech-Savvy Internet Users
Essential Reads for New Software Developers: The Effective Engineer and The Missing README
Scriptures to Read on Days of Prayer and Fasting for the Church
Master the Art of Interpersonal Relationships with “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
Discover Learn X in Y Minutes: An Invaluable Resource for Programmers
Mastering Linux: Top Commands Every New Computer Programmer Should Learn
Ask Me Anything: Software Engineering Questions from a Coding Bootcamp Student
My Coding Bootcamp Journey: How a Pastor Became a Programmer
Logos 10 Bible Software: The Ultimate Theological Learning Tool
Software Testing: Possibilities, Problems, and Principles
ChatGPT: Write a Viral Blogpost about Why to Become a Software Engineer
Most Useful Websites: My Favorite Online Resources
Questions Worth Asking (Self-Elicitation Questions)
Mentor Me! 11 Questions I’d Like You to Answer
#ACNAtoo: What you can do to hear, to support, and to respond to abuse survivors
What Color is My Parachute? The Flower Petal Exercise
Why Haven’t You Torn The Sky Open Yet?
It’s Official. I’m Hitting Pause on My Ph.D. for a Year
I’m looking for a new role to supplement my part-time work for Anglican Compass
Josh+? On the use of the sign of the cross (plus sign) in clergy signatures
It’s Time to Get Some Help
A Prayer for Trustfulness in Times of Worry and Anxiety
It’s time for another social media fast!
The Ph.D. Plan (Or the Lack Thereof)
A Shameless Request: Help Me Buy More Books?
I’m a Female Priest and I Support My Opponents in the Women’s Ordination Debate
For the Good of the Order: A Plea for Charity on the Ordination of Women
They Say, I Say Writing Templates
Help! I’m looking for the best Christian resources on the Bible, social justice, racism, Critical Race Theory, and Marxism
Who really cares about the Trinity in 2020?
Top 3 Books, Movies, and Podcasts about Race for White Christians like Me
“But, What About the Riots and Lawlessness?”
Why is the word “systemic” a flashpoint for certain Christians?
A Letter to Fellow ACNA Clergy: On Anti-Racism and a More Diverse and Just Anglicanism
The Altar and the Arena: What Slaves and Martyrs Have to Teach Us About Women’s Ordination
Balderdash! 12 Suggestions for Overcoming Writer’s Block (From Andrew T. Le Peau’s “Write Better”)
We switched Anglican Compass over from HostGator Shared to Bluehost VPS Hosting
“They laughed when I became an Anglican, but when I started to pray!” 27 Anglican Headline Ideas
Want a taste of what my dissertation is about? Read these two passages (Dissertation Dispatch, 2020-04-03)
What did Barth and Bonhoeffer think of the Bible? (Dissertation Dispatch, 2020-03-30)
Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Bible: Back to the Beginning (Dissertation Dispatch, 2020-03-26)
12 Prayers for Tough Days
Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Sermon on the Mount (Dissertation Dispatch 2020-02-04)
Help! I’m looking for examples of “theological triage,” “doctrinal taxonomy,” or “dogmatic rank”
Are the Beatitudes “Renunciations” (Verzichte)?
Are the Beatitudes “Good Works”? (Matt. 5:13–16)
With baby #2 on the way, I’m looking for work!
Interpretive Approaches to the Beatitudes
Interpretive Approaches to the Sermon on the Mount
Damer’s “Code of Intellectual Conduct”
Taking Scripture and Women’s Ordination Seriously: A Response to Blake Johnson and Lee Nelson
Alan Jacobs’s “The Thinking Person’s Checklist”
Help me come up with “rules for conversation”!
Quit claiming that we mutualists (egalitarians) don’t take the Bible or tradition seriously.
No One Knows what “Positivism of Revelation” Means!
I’m quite excited for these Oxford Handbooks!
My favorite definition of “theology”
Barth Timeline: A Chronology of Karl Barth’s Life
Bonhoeffer Timeline: A Chronology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life
Dissertation Dispatch: 2019-11-11
“True Christianity cannot be a private Christianity” (Barth)
Here’s a video of my ordination to the Priesthood
Here’s what I’m committing myself to as a priest.
A Prayer for Relatives and Friends
Following Christ as a Hermeneutical Problem?
Two of Bonhoeffer’s Most Convicting Paragraphs
“Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore” (The Atlantic)
What are the most important theological terms that every Christian should know?
The “Via Media”? Or the “Middle Ground Fallacy”?
Here are all of William Witt’s essays on Women’s ordination, in a single PDF (with bookmarks!)
If Women Can Be Saved, Then Women Can Be Priests: A Critique of the ‘in persona Christi’ Argument Against Women’s Ordination
An Outline of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics
Helpful Writing Templates
Dissertation Dispatch: 2019-08-09
The Guilt of Karl Barth: Strengths and Weaknesses of Barth’s Römerbrief Reading of Romans 9:30–10:21
I think Karl Barth missed the (pastoral) point of Romans
Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Bible
Dissertation Dispatch: 2019-07-05
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Writing My Dissertation vs. Funding Abortion
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Sermons and Meditations
The Tree of Religion: Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Tree of Knowledge in Genesis 2:4–3:24
When will Thy Kingdom Come? The Timing and Agency of the Kingdom of God in the Lord’s Prayer
Only the Suffering God Can Help
What are your “must-own” biblical and theological studies reference works?
Help me achieve my home gym dream
Learn more about Rublev’s Trinity icon [video]
Let’s learn how to be bored again
Theology is exegesis: John Webster on what we can learn from Barth and Bonhoeffer
Use Rapoport’s Rules for Better Conversations and Disagreements
There’s more than one kind of “priesthood” in the New Testament
Women’s Ordination Debates in Anglicanism: The 2017 ACNA Report and the 2003 AMIA Report
Want to Learn More about Women’s Ordination Debates within Anglicanism? Start With These Resources
Barth, the Bible, and “What we ought to do”
Karl Barth’s Gesamtausgabe (“Complete/Collected Edition”): A List of Works
A List of Karl Barth’s Sermons
What’s the relationship between biblical and systematic/dogmatic theology?
Spirit, Flesh, Restoration, and Sublimation
StickKing to the Slow Carb Diet
Barth and Bonhoeffer on Religion’s False God(s)
Karl Barth’s Reversal on the “Knowledge of Good and Evil”
I wish these 2 Barth (and Bonhoeffer) books would come out sooner!
What blogs are you reading?
Help me StickK to my writing habit
Bonhoeffer’s ‘Definition’ of ‘Religion’ in Prison: 15 Facets/Aspects
Introduction to Christian Theology: A Draft Syllabus
My Karl Barth Software Drama Continues: Inaccurate Page Numbers in Logos
Preparing the Way of the Lord in the Wilderness: Luke 3:1-6
UPDATE: You can now search for Bible citations in the Digital Karl Barth Library again
This is a fantastic wooden pencil (Mitsubishi 9850)
What’s gone wrong with the Digital Karl Barth Library?
Justification and Sanctification
Take Up Your Tongue and Follow Jesus
Systematic Theologies: A List (Help Me Update!)
Here’s the Template I Use to Take Notes on Books I Read
What I’m Reading this Fall
8 Questions to Ask While Reading Theology
Eva Joy Steele: A Birth Story
What Theologians (Should) Do
What Attracts People to Anglicanism? Here’s My Take
Two More Pieces about Jordan Peterson
The Four Tendencies: 4 Ways You Can Play to Your Personality Strengths
Hate Running? Try Rucking Instead
Here’s the Elevator Pitch for my Dissertation Proposal: ‘Scriptural, but Not Religious’
The Grain of the Gospel: Why Christians Should Care about Food Ethics
What to make of Jordan Peterson? Some takes, then my own.
Do More Better: Tim Challies’ Excellent Little Book on Personal Productivity Could Change Your Life
Please Don’t Leave Me Alone: On Male Friendships, or the Lack Thereof
I Need to Develop a Writing Habit. Do You?
Getting Back on the “Getting Things Done” Productivity Bandwagon
This Song is a Beautiful Picture of the Theological Journey
Dangerous Beauty: Phoenix and Grand Canyon Trip 2018
This One Simple Trick Helps Me Read Faster as a Ph.D. Student
Christian, Do the Daily Office: 5 Things You Can Learn from Morning and Evening Prayer
Top 3 Reasons Why I’m an Anglican Christian
Cut the “Positivity” Crap: What Frustrates You?
Go to Sleep and Have Some Kids: What the Bible (Psalm 127) Says about Productivity
3 Confessions of an Expectant Father
Mental Models: A Helpful Model for Theology?
How to Pray Before You Read and Write: A Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas Before Study
3 Questions to Ask When You Study the Bible
5 Books Every Christian Should Read
An 80/20 Approach to the Christian Life: 2 Reasons Why Christians Should Care About the Pareto Principle
The Hermeneutical Implications of Scripture’s Theological Location
Principles: 10 Imperatives for the Good Life
Testimony: A Faith Story, In Brief
Podcasts You Should Listen To
It is Finished! So, Get to Work! – A Sermon on the Ascension
The Lasting Supper – Luke 22:14-30
Is The Well-Equipped Christian Worth It?
Getting Ahead in God’s Upside-Down Kingdom: An Appeal for a Consistently Pro-Life Ethic
To Be or Not To Be Religious: A Clarification of Karl Barth’s and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Divergence and Convergence Regarding Religion
A Disappointing Christmas Homily
30 Works on Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Are There Others?
Christians and Wealth: An Argument for Downward Mobility
Following Jesus Beyond the Bandwagon
Barth, Bonhoeffer, and The Theological Critique of Religion: My Reading List This Fall
A Ridiculously Helpful Markdown Tutorial
The Feast of St. James the Apostle: A Homily for Ministers
Frustrated with Church? You’re the Problem!
Frustrated with Church? Join the Club!
Thank God, I Went to Cedarville
How Do You Want To Be Remembered?
Let’s Take Seth Godin to Church
Kettlebell Swings: Back Balm for the Sedentary [Seminarian]
Son of Man, Can Your Bones Live?
Reading Recommendations? Barth’s and Bonhoeffer’s False Gods
Sermon: The Challenge of Christmas Light
Improvising Church and State: Overaccepting as a Synthesis of Anglican and Anabaptist Approaches
Theology in Outline: What Do I Believe?
Faithful Faith in a Faithful God: Romans 1.1-17
The Prodigal Son, Part 2: Introduction to Romans
Morning Prayer Homily: Mark 8.11-21
Morning Prayer Homily: Mark 1.29-45
Morning Prayer Homily: James 2.1-13
Jesus is Not Just "One of Us"
Pentecost: Songs and Scripture
What does it mean to be human?
Disunity in the Church? Absurd!
The Hope of the Holy Innocents
Karl Barth on the Wilderness Temptations: #1, Stones into Bread
Presenting on Karl Barth at 2015 Southeastern ETS
Barth on the Wilderness Temptations: #2, Christendom’s Cost — Worship Satan
Barth on the Wilderness Temptations: #3, The Leap of False Faith
Who am I to be a theologian?
WHITE NOISE, BHOPAL, AND THE HYPERREAL FEAR OF DEATH
My 2014 Regional ETS Paper: Reconciliation and the Lack Thereof
Ok, Maybe a Bit More on Cedarville!
My Regional ETS Presentation: Reconciliation and the Lack Thereof
The Epistle to Philemon: Analysis and Application
Black Friday Book Recommendation: The Economy of Desire
The Holy Trinity: What Is It? (Why) Is It Important?
Psalm 2: Quare Fremuerunt Gentes? (Why Do the Nations Rage?)
Miroslav Volf on Divine Violence
Scripture: What The Bible Is And Why It Matters
King Jesus’ Kingdom Gospel
Requiescas in Pace, Mi Avia
Inductive Bible Study in 7 Steps: “Scripture, Handle With Care,” by Amy Chase Ashley
Heads up! Guest post on the way.
(Un)Righteous Anger? – Yoda, Jonah, Nahum, and Us
My Unforgettable Cedarville Experience (pt 2)
Honors, Grace, and Generosity
On Building/Burning Bridges
Let There Be Light: My Resignation
Reading and Interpreting the Bible: Deuteronomy 6:1-15
You’re Reading Romans 13 Wrong! Here’s How to Read It Correctly
Open Letter to Cedarville Admins and Trustees
Reconciliation and the Lack Thereof: Atonement, Ecclesiology, and the Unity of God
Cedarville, Let there be Light. (pt. 2)
Cedarville, Let there be Light. (pt. 1)
Sacrificing Scripture on the Altars of Our Own Agendas
Creation and Doxology: A Portrait of Biblical Creation Theology (pt. 3)
Creation and Doxology: A Portrait of Biblical Creation Theology (pt. 2)
Creation and Doxology: A Portrait of Biblical Creation Theology (pt. 1)
My Unforgettable Cedarville Experience
Wedding Vows: My Personal Take on the Traditional Version
The Book of Romans, Distilled and Paraphrased
The Good News of Christmas
What the Bible Says About Poverty: The Book of Proverbs
My High School Graduation Valedictorian Speech was a Poem
From a Grateful Son: A Mother’s Day Poem