Over at the Cardus Daily, our think-tank’s daily blog, I have just posted a column that engages the findings of the Equality of Opportunity Project out of Harvard and Berkeley: “Families, Flourishing, and Upward Mobility.” Here’s a snippet: If the “American dream” is anything it is a dream of upward mobility: the dream of getting…
Comment magazine has just published my new article, “Naturalizing ‘Shalom’: Confessions of a Kuyperian Secularist.” This is part autobiography, part cautionary tale. Here’s a snippet: I’ve come to realize that if we don’t attend to the whole Kuyper, so to speak—if we pick and choose just parts of the Kuyperian project—we can end up with an odd sort…
I sat down to craft a post about my friend David Crump’s fantastic new book, Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture: Reading the Bible Critically in Faith (Eerdmans, 2013) because it’s a book you should read. But then I realized that all the things I want to say about it are already said in my Foreword to the…
Since folks had inquired about the text of my response to Todd Billings’ inaugural address as Girod Professor of Reformed Theology (noted yesterday), I have uploaded a pdf of my remarks for those who might be interested. I believe that Todd hopes to publish his lecture in some format. "Reformed Gifts for the Church Catholic:…
A few weeks ago, I had the honor of participating in the installation of my friend, J. Todd Billings, as the first Gordon H. Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI. It was a marvelous celebration of Todd’s work and future promise (and comes in the midst of Todd’s…
A long footnote appended to chapter 3 of my latest book manuscript, Who’s Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood, forthcoming in the Church and Postmodern Culture Series (Baker Academic, 2014), in which I obliquely engage David Bentley Hart’s recent sorties on natural law: This is also why a pragmatist account of knowledge and meaning—which…