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About Me
- Brad
- I am a doctoral student in theology at Yale, with interests in ecclesiology, the authority of tradition, and the use and nature of Scripture. My wife, Katelin, and I hail from Austin, Texas, and continue to subscribe -- even in the northeast -- to what Stanley Hauerwas calls "the ontological superiority of being a Texan." We'll see how that goes.
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Church, Theology, Praxis
- A Greater Courage
- An und für sich
- Andy Rowell
- The Art of the Good Life
- Becoming What We Are
- Boo to a Goose
- The Church and Postmodern Culture
- Clavi Non Defixi
- Connexions
- David Ayres: Prayers & Poems
- Dei-liberations
- Der Evangelische Theologe
- Experimental Theology
- Faith and Theology
- The Fire and the Rose
- Flying Farther
- God's Politics
- Inhabitatio Dei
- J. Kameron Carter
- James K.A. Smith
- Jimmy McCarty
- John Nugent
- Joshua Case
- KYRIE ELEISON
- Logos & Ekklesia
- Loretta's Basement
- Maggi Dawn
- Memoria Dei
- Michael Gorman
- Narrative and Ontology
- Nothing New Under the Sun
- On Journeying With Those in Exile
- The Other Journal
- Paul J. Griffiths
- Per Caritatem
- Per Crucem ad Lucem
- Peter Leithart
- Pilgrim Pathways
- Preacher Mike
- Quo Vadis, Domine?
- Rain and the Rhinoceros
- Reforming Virtue
- Rude Truth
- Sign on the Window
- Theology Forum
- Theology Out of Bounds
- This Side of Sunday
- Vita Brevis
- Women in Theology
Groups, Authors, Resources
- Abilene Christian University
- C.S. Lewis
- Candler School of Theology
- Center of Theological Inquiry
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Cormac McCarthy
- Daniel Erlander
- Digital Image Archive
- The Ekklesia Project
- G.K. Chesterton
- International Justice Mission
- John Howard Yoder
- MUST Ministries
- N.T. Wright
- The New Yorker: Poetry
- PKG Studio
- Poetry Atlanta
- Rowan Williams
- Slate Poetry
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Ten Thousand Villages
- Theology and Ethics
- Walter Brueggemann
- Wendell Berry
Politics, Opinions, Events
Movies, Music, Books
Sports (= Spurs & Basketball)
Blogging Robert Jenson's Systematic Theology
On Cultivating Virtues in the Academy
Reading David Kelsey's Eccentric Existence
- Announcement: Book Reading Group for 2011
- Introduction and Reading Plan
- Chapter 1A: "The Questions"
- Chapter 1B: "What Kind of Project Is This?"
- Chapter 2A: "The One With Whom We Have To Do"
- Chapter 2B: "The Kinds of Project This Isn't"
- Chapter 3A: "The One Who Has To Do With Us"
- Chapter 6: "To Be and To Have a Living Body"
- Chapter 7: "Personal Bodies: Meditation on Job 10"
- Reflections on Exceptionless, Unimpairable Anthropology
Reflections on New Testament Ethics
Reflections on the Gospel of Matthew
- The Temptation Scene in Matthew 4:1-11
- The Call to Messianic Discipleship and Jesus' Unique Sonship in Matthew 11:25-30
- The Parable fo the Unforgiving Servant in Matthew 18:23-35 (With a Glance at the Shortcomings of Historical Criticism)
- The Parable/Allegory of the Ten Virgins in Matthew 25:1-13 (With a Glance at a Thoughtful Article)
Thesis Matters: Yoder + Jenson
Notes on Being the Church
The Politics of Evangelism
Practicing Faith
Garrett East, Brother Theologian
- Towards or Away From Suffering?: The Legend of Quo Vadis
- A Brotherly Dialogue: On Lars Justinen's Painting "Servant to the World"
- A Brotherly Dialogue, Part II: On Foot-Washing, Violence, Jesus, and Justice
- James Cameron's Avatar and the Critical Response: An Alternative Perspective
- It's Not About the Swords: A Warning About the Changing Conditions for Discipleship in Luke 22:35-38
Contemplating Augustine
- On Sin and Coca-Cola: An Augustinian Reflection on Desire
- What Was Augustine's Conversion From and To, and When Did It Happen?
- Augustine and Jerome: A Less Than Saintly Correspondence
- Teaching Augustine Humility: Margaret Miles, Feminist Criticism, and Augustine's Companion
- On Co-Narrating the Search for True Religion: Augustine's De Utilitate Credendi and Belief's Shaky Priority
- Loving From Being Loved, Knowing From Being Known: Finding and Praising the True God in Book X of Augustine's Confessions
Bloggish Explanations
The Peace of the Body of Christ
- "To No Good End": Requesting a Coherent Account of Christian Martyrdom
- A Rejoinder to Privileged Pacifism
- Part I: The American Problematic
- Part II: Revolution, Agency, and Abuse
- Part III: Efficacy, Faithfulness, and Worship
- Part IV: Rwanda and the Proclamation of the Gospel
- Part V: The Question of Martyrdom Revisited
- Part VI: Becoming God's Peaceable People
Praxis & Embodiment
- No Place for Fortified Walls: Practicing Unmerited Generosity in an Unforgiving Age
- Unorganized Reflections on the Loss of the Authority of the Church
- Formational Questions for Worship: Breaking Bread, PowerPoint, and the Christian Practice of Downloading
- Learning Humility in the Blogosphere: Mark Driscoll Through Richard Beck's Eyes
- Signs of Penitence, Space for God: Spiritual Disciplines for Lent
- Beware of Movements, and of Claiming Your Own!
- 11 Theses on Faithful Theological Dissent, or: How to Be a Heretic Without Being a Tool
- Friendship in a Fallen World: An Ecclesial Reflection on Homophobia and Societal Consensus
- Business in the Kingdom: 20 Theses Toward an Ethics of Christian Economic Practice
- Can Theology Be Done Truthfully, Humbly, and Hospitably Toward Others?: A Reflection on Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church
- Flag(s) in the Assembly: An Uncertain Proposal
- Letting His Words Trouble Our Thoughts: On How to Read Wendell Berry, Modern America's Prophet of the Evitable
- Quaestio Disputata: On Baptism in the Name of the Trinity
- 10 Lessons for the Church After 2,000 Years of Church History
- Voyeurism, Violence, and Virtual Reality, or: Is Reality TV Our Gladiator Games?
- Against Optimism: On the Task Before Us
- Confessing Bewilderment as a Theologian: On Tradition, Experience, and the Ethics of Same-Sex Relationships
- On Youth Ministry and Raising Up Disciples in the Church
- On the Phrase "Remember Your Baptism" When Spoken by Paedobaptists
- On Christians Confessing Belief in Capitalism
- Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America: A Look Back at his Seminal Work
- On Christian Seminaries Being Christian: Prophecy and Proclamation
Christ & Cruciformity
- Following a Tortured Lord
- Just a Reminder
- Social Worker as Theologian
- The Normative Way of Jesus: Remembering the Cross as More than an Atonement Theory
- On Loving Our Enemies: Shmuley Boteach and the Mumbai Attacks
- Christmas Remembering
- Christ the Saving Economist, Christ the Healer of our Politics
- Christian Pacifism: Two Clarifications, and a Question
- On the Curious Claim That People "Like Jesus" (But Not the Church)
- Haiti, Bad Theology, and the Crucified God
- A Brief Note on Supreme Emergency and Christian Eschatology
Faith & Autobiography
- On the Apprenticeship of Prayer
- Family and Gratitude: Reflections on a Birthday
- On Doing Theology With the Poor
- Technology and the End of Happy Accidents
- Memories of The Granj
- In Praise of Spiritual Friendship: A Note on the Josh Loves in Life
- "Fully Loaded, We Got Snacks and Supplies": On Road Tripping and Remembering (How) to Play
- Homelessness and Tragedy
- An Open (Love) Letter to Churches of Christ
- From Basketball to Theology: A Brief Story of Love and Vocation
- Come Let Us All Praise God For Love
- A Question Concerning the Perpetual Endurance of Non-Self-Legitimating Christian Denominations
- The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis to Saint Giovanni Calabria
- Unsorted Thoughts on Predestination, Free Will, Salvation, and Mission
- Exegesis, Movie Reviews, and Respect for the Written Word: On Being a Good Editor
Scripture & Exegesis
- Scripture and God's People
- Scripture and God's People: Redux
- "Who is the Lord?": An Amateur Exploration of Kyrios Iesous
- Turn, Turn, Turning No More: An Eschatological Reflection on Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
- Consummation of Consolation: Yahweh's Sovereign Reversal of Exile in Isaiah 55
- "For He Comes, He Comes to Judge the Earth": On the Hope (and Not the Terror) of God's Judgment
- "Do You Not Know? Have You Not Heard?": On the Non-Inevitability of Christian Faith
- Quaestio Disputata: On the Death of Christ as a Sacrifice for Sin
- 11 Theses On What Can and Cannot Be Said About Scripture
Story & Proclamation
Theology at the Movies
- May We All Ride Lawnmowers: Learning Patience and Hospitality from David Lynch and Alvin Straight
- Pixar and the Stranger: A Walk With Woody, Remy, WALL-E, and Friends
- An Unapologetic Love Letter to Movies
- Quantum of Solace as Feature Length Epilogue
- Encounters at the End of the World and Werner Herzog's Indomitable Spirit
- On Means and Ends for a Faithful Church: Bloodshed and Redemption in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence
- The Mysterious Case of Wolverine, or: Does the Church Have a Witness Regarding Illegal Downloading?
- Gentle Washing for the Bruised and Broken: A Cinematic Meditation on Hosea 1-2 and Rachel Getting Married
- The Case of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: On the Ethical Question of Cinematic Violence
- More on Cinematic Violence: Clarifying the Conversation
- An All-Important Question: Who Should Direct The Avengers?
The Grammar of God
- Part I: A Brief Note on Holiness
- Part II: Implications for Sin and Incarnation
- Part III: Adjectives, Emotions, and Tense
- Part IV: Honoring Bad Theological Language
- Part V: N.T. Wright on John Piper's Definition of God's Righteousness—Full Stop
- Part VI: "Faith In" Versus "Faith That"
- Part VII: Theological Speech in the First, Second, and Third Person
Notes for the Professor
Commending to You
Faith, Text, Tradition, and Community
- Part I: On Having to Do With Yahweh Alone
- Part II: On the Non- Hagiographical Memory of God's People
- Part III: On Belonging to a Reading Community
- Part IV: On Scripture's Mountainous Geography
- Part V: On Why David Plotz Ought to Read the New Testament
- Part VI: On Why I Am Thankful For Witnesses Like David Plotz
To Vote Or Not To Vote
- Part I: A Short Strand of Links
- The Lure of Political Eschatology
- Part II: Christian Arguments in Favor
- Part III: Evaluating Christian Arguments in Favor
- Part IV: Christian Arguments Against
- Excursus: On Christian Convictions and Gracious Disagreement
- Part V: Evaluating Christian Arguments Against
- Part VI: Preliminary Conclusions and Reflections
- Part VII: A Brotherly Response
- Part VIII: Epilogue (or: Why If We Were All a Little More Like Wendell Berry, I Wouldn't Mind One Bit)
- And The Verdict Is...
All Hail Battlestar Galactica!
All Things Sports
21 Theological Themes for the New Year: 2009
Year in Review: 2008
Year in Review: 2009
Sunday Sabbath Poetry: 2008
- 8.31.08 - Wendell Berry (I)
- 9.7.08 - Shannon Stephens
- 9.14.08 - Sam Beam
- 9.21.08 - Woody Guthrie
- 9.28.08 - Derek Webb
- 10.5.08 - David Berman
- 10.12.08 - Michael Nau
- 10.19.08 - Sufjan Stevens (I)
- 10.26.08 - Wendell Berry (II)
- 11.2.08 - Maynard James Keenan
- 11.16.08 - Wendell Berry (III)
- 11.23.08 - Psalm 44
- 12.10.08 - Mid-Week: Derek Webb, Rowan Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Psalm 137, and Jesus
- 12.21.08 - Placide Cappeau
Sunday Sabbath Poetry: 2009
- 1.04.09 - Robin Pecknold
- 1.11.09 - Thom Yorke
- 1.25.09 - Reese Roper
- 2.1.09 - Chris Martin
- 2.15.09 - Wendell Berry (IV)
- 3.01.09 - C.S. Lewis
- 3.8.09 - George Herbert
- 3.15.09 - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- 3.22.09 - Rowan Williams
- 3.29.09 - Walter Brueggemann
- 4.5.09 - Dan Haseltine
- 4.12.09 - Easter: Wendell Berry (V), Annie Dillard, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Colin Meloy, Michael Nau, Rembrandt
- 4.19.09 - Jeff Tweedy
- 4.26.09 - Kim Fabricius
- 5.3.09 - Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- 5.10.09 - Waldo Williams
- 5.17.09 - A Liturgical Reading of Psalm 51 and Romans 7:14-8:1
- 5.24.09 - Kevin Hart
- 5.31.09 - David Ayres (I)
- 6.7.09 - Linford Detweiler
- 6.14.09 - Wendell Berry (VI)
- 6.21.09 - Mary Karr (I)
- 6.28.09 - Billy Collins (I)
- 7.5.09 - Will Oldham
- 7.12.09 - Jon Foreman
- 7.19.09 - Andrew Bird
- 7.26.09 - Nicole Burdette
- 8.2.09 - Li-Young Lee (I)
- 8.9.09 - Andrew Hudgins (I)
- 8.16.09 - John Donne
- 8.23.09 - R.S. Thomas
- 8.30.09 - Wendell Berry (VII: One Year Anniversary Edition)
- 9.6.09 - Mark Love's "Wilco on a Sunday"
- 9.13.09 - David Bazan
- 9.20.09 - Matthew Myer Boulton
- 9.27.09 - Patty Griffin
- 10.4.09 - Prayers for the Bread and the Cup
- 10.18.09 - David Ayres (II)
- 10.25.09 - Wendell Berry (VIII)
- 11.1.09 - Mark Jarman (I)
- 11.8.09 - Thomas Merton
- 11.15.09 - Kathleen Raine
- 11.22.09 - Elvis Perkins
- 12.13.09 - Mary Karr (II) (Advent #1)
- 12.20.09 - Theodore Baker (Advent #2)
- 12.27.09 - Robert Davis (Advent #3)
Sunday Sabbath Poetry: 2010
- 1.3.10 - Billy Collins (II)
- 1.10.10 - Jack Gilbert
- 1.17.10 - e.e. cummings
- 1.24.10 - Basil the Great
- 2.28.10 - Sufjan Stevens for Troubling Times (II)
- 3.7.10 - Li-Young Lee (II)
- 1.31.10 - Justin Vernon
- 3.14.10 - Mark Jarman (II)
- 3.21.10 - Geoffrey Hill
- 4.4.10 - Kevin Hart for Easter Sunday (II)
- 4.25.10 - Wendell Berry (IX)
- 5.2.10 - Franz Wright (I)
- 5.9.10 - Franz Wright (II)
- 5.23.10 - Matt Berninger
- 6.20.10 - Rainer Maria Rilke
- 7.11.10 - Marie Howe
- 7.18.10 - Thom Satterlee
- 8.8.10 - Dana Gioia
- 8.15.10 - Win Butler
- 8.22.10 - Scott Cairns
- 8.29.10 - Wendell Berry (X)
- 9.12.10 - Aaron Baker
- 9.26.10 - Matthew Myer Boulton & co. (II)
- 10.10.10 - Paul Mariani
- 10.17.10 - Ted Kooser
- 10.24.10 - William Stafford
- 11.7.10 - Sufjan Stevens (III)
- 11.25.10 - Adam Zagajewski
- 12.5.10 - Ephrem the Syrian (Advent #1)
- 12.12.10 - Cecil Francis Alexander (Advent #2)
Sunday Sabbath Poetry: 2011
- 1.16.11 - Marie Howe (II)
- 1.23.11 - Wendell Berry (XI)
- 2.6.11 - Franz Wright (III)
- 5.22.11 - R. T. Smith (I)
- 5.29.11 - R. T. Smith (II)
- 6.19.11 - Devendra Banhart
- 6.26.11 - Søren Kierkegaard
- 7.10.11 - Marie Howe (III)
- 7.17.11 - W. B. Yeats
- 8.7.11 - Gillian Welch
- 8.21.11 - R.S. Thomas (II)
- 8.28.11 - R.S. Thomas (III)
- 9.11.11 - Wendell Berry for the Anniversary of 9/11
- 9.18.11 - R.S. Thomas (IV)
- 10.2.11 - Jeff Tweedy (II)
- 10.9.11 - R.S. Thomas (V)
- 10.16.11 - Steven Delopoulos
- 10.30.11 - Franz Wright (V)
- 11.6.11 - Ben Knox Miller
- 11.13.11 - Alena Synková
- 11.27.11 - John Mason Neale (Advent #1)
- 12.4.11 - Andrew Hudgins (Advent #2)
- 12.11.11 - R.S. Thomas (Advent #3)
- 12.18.11 - G.K. Chesterton (Advent #4)
- 12.25.11 - Wendell Berry (Christmas Day) (XIII)
Sunday Sabbath Poetry: 2012
Quotes Galore
- Preparing for Lent: Rowan Williams on Eucharist, Penitance, Forgiveness, and the Church
- Wendell Berry on Racism and the Church
- A Brief Statement of Faith
- Annie Dillard on the Dancing Bear Act of Worship
- Robert Jenson on Theological Exegesis and "the Word of the Lord" in Ezekiel
- Rowan Williams on Being at Home in the World (and in the Church-As-It-Is)
- Cormac McCarthy on Human Fallenness
- Robert Jenson on What the Gospel Is and Is Not (i.e., If Only Piper and Wright Had Read Jenson a Decade Ago...)
- William Stringfellow on the Prophetic Piety of the Poor
- David Bentley Hart on the God of Nothing But Will
- William Cavanaugh on Torture as the Anti-Liturgy of the Omnipotent State
- Bryan Stone on the Ecclesial Nature of Salvation and the Faithful Practice of Evangelism
- The Charges Condemning Michael Sattler to Torture and Death
- Kim Fabricius on Divine Flu
- Saint Augustine on Theatrical Violence (aka Tarantino)
- Leonardo Boff on Capitalism, Socialism, and the Community of the Holy Trinity
- Philipp Jakob Spener on Ethics in the Theo-Blogosphere
- William Cavanaugh on "Public" Religion and Translated "Values"
- Millard Lind on the Theopolitics of Israel's Warrior God
- Lesslie Newbigin on Salvation With and Through the Neighbor
- Walter Brueggemann on the Revelatory New Social Reality of Prophetic Israel
- Karl Barth on God's Faithfulness to the People Israel
- Rowan Williams on the Daily Art of Faith
- Richard Beck on Church of Christ Ambivalence Toward Lent
- Lee Camp on the Call of the Gospel to Indiscriminate, Suffering Love
- Augustine on Loving Love, God, and Brother
- John Howard Yoder on the Two Swords of Luke 22:35-38
- Robert Jenson on the Incarnate Logos' Speech and Presence in All of Scripture
- Michel Barnes on the Seven Criteria By Which to Judge a Historical Reading of a Text
- Wendell Berry on the Specialization of the University, the Corruption of Culture, and the Calamity Facing Farming Communities
- Robert Jenson: A Remarkable Quote on the Old and New Testaments as Scripture
- Arthur McGill on the Task of Christian Theology
- John Howard Yoder on the Bible, God, and Time
- James McClendon on "the fundamental love story of Christian faith"
- Wendell Berry on Writing and Telling the Truth
- Robert Jenson on Scripture's Exercise of Authority
- James McClendon on "the moral failure of infant baptism"
- Robert Jenson's One-Sentence Summary of the Eschaton
- Drew McWeeny on the Travesty of Eclipse, the Latest in the Twilight Series
- Paul Brunick on Armond White on Toy Story 3 and Film Criticism
- John Howard Yoder and Robert W. Jenson on Jesus of Nazareth as the One True Revolutionary Who Lived to the Death a Genuinely Free and Human Existence
- Jewish Theologian Michael Wyschogrod on the Woundedness of Islam
- John Howard Yoder on God's Activity in History, and Sounding a Lot Like Jenson
- Michael Ignatieff on Isaiah Berlin as Hannah's Child (i.e., Not Only Hauerwas)
- G.K. Chesterton: The Hilarious and Brilliant Opening Paragraph to his Autobiography
- Richard Hays on Christian Repudiation of Biblical Authority
- John Howard Yoder on the Historical Scarcity of the Just War Tradition in the Thought and Practice of Ordinary Christians
- Garrett East on the Timefulness of the Gospel
- Wendell Berry on Unintentional Community
- Garrett East on Leadership Structures in the Church
- John Howard Yoder on Liberation Theology, Marxism, Exodus, and the Freedom Proclaimed by the Gospel
- Robert Jenson: A Pithy Definition of the Marks of the Church
- Nancey Murphy on Reimagining Christian History Without Souls to Save
- Garrett East on American Gun Ownership, Foreign Missions, and the Possibility of Martyrdom
- John Howard Yoder on the Political Strength of Renouncing Violence
- William Stringfellow on the Apostasy of the American Churches
- Rowan Williams on the Time God Gives Us in Prayer
- Wolfhart Pannenberg: A Concise Definition of Repentance
- Herbert McCabe on What is Wrong With Capitalism
- Oliver O'Donovan on the Indeterminacy of Understanding Scripture
- Martin Luther on "no other God than this incarnate and human God"
- Kosuke Koyama on Subordinating Great Theological Thoughts to the Needs of the Farmers
- Kathryn Tanner on the Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service to God's Mission for the World
- Karl Barth on (Not) Attending to the Center of the Church's Life
- Karl Barth on the Theme and Center of Bearing Testimony to the Neighbor
- Robert Jenson on How the Biblical God Avoids the "Universal Moral Disaster" of "Omnipotent Egocentricity"
- David James Duncan on Why "Professional Baseball is Inherently Antiwar"
- John Howard Yoder: Supposed Rabid Political Sectarian
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