Fear and Anger
Extreme weather in Texas for about a week in February saw snow in places where the existence of the white stuff had hitherto been only […]
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“…and so, theology is possible”
Shortly after John Webster passed away unexpectedly on May 25, 2016, a friend and I found ourselves reminiscing about our late mentor. “The thing I […]
The Narrow Confines of Identity
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages […]
Disability and the Church
A mainline church here in Scotland recently asked me to speak about disability with their ministry selection committee. As the conversation progressed, it became obvious […]
On Hope in Times of Crisis
There are few things so difficult to see then someone’s greatest hopes crushed. It can be as incidental as witnessing a favourite sports team lose […]
Missional Congregations for a New Moral Landscape
The revivalistic style of evangelism originally popularized in the United States during the Second Great Awakening is no longer effective in much of North America. […]
Fear
The Virus has made it clear: Fear rules our lives inordinately. A friend related how, after months of isolation, she ventured out to a special-occasion […]
Teaching and Learning Moral Theology
Asked what I do for a living generates a moment of existential dread as I ponder how I should answer. I teach moral theology but […]
Living Life Forward
Sam Waxforth, the main character in Christopher Beha’s recent novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, is a tech-savvy young man who crunches numbers in order to […]