In September’s Christianity Today magazine I published a short article entitled, “What Galileo’s Telescope Can’t See” (now available online) which also gets at some of the core themes that concern us at The Colossian Forum on Faith, Science, and Culture. The article pushes back on a tendency to immediately equate contemporary discussions at the intersection of…
The Protestant “sanctification of ordinary life” (as Charles Taylor often describes it) can generate a curious question: “If all of life is worship, then why do I need to go to church?” I address this question in “Sanctification for Ordinary Life,” an article in Reformed Worship now available online.
Following up on my earlier article, “Tradition for Innovation,” Faith and Leadership at Duke has just published my new article, “The Gift of Constraints.” The article is a take on the new Barnes Foundation building in downtown Philadelphia, reading it as a kind of material allegory or parable for leadership lessons. As you’ll see from the…
We all know that children imitate their parents–for good or ill. So, given my practice of annotating texts, it shouldn’t have surprised me that our then-toddler son Grayson thought an open book (in this case, Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another) was an invitation for inscription. Notice that he has already mastered the “layering” principle, utilizing two…
A friend of mine who is also a doctoral student recently asked if I had any sort of system for how I annotate books, particularly primary texts. It was an interesting question, because annotating books is certainly one of the central practices of my scholarly life–and yet it’s not something I was ever explicitly taught,…
[Apologies for the radio silence over here at Fors Clavigera. To be honest, a lot of my energy has gone to Twitter, which I have found to be a delightful experiment so far. In fact, the essay I link to below grew directly out of a Twitter exchange with Andy Crouch! (You can follow me by clicking the…