Experimental Theology


...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor

8.13.2026

A Book of Love for Everyone: Part 2, View of God → Anxiety → Hermeneutics

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In yesterday's post I described how, in The Book of Love , I wanted to bring some readers into "hermeneutical self-awareness."...
8.12.2026

A Book of Love for Everyone: Part 1, The Varieties of the Ostrich Option

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In the Introduction to The Book of Love I describe how I wanted to write a book that would surprise both conservative and progressive reade...
8.11.2026

Warming the Word: Hermeneutics and Stages of Change

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I recently shared how I attempted to use Blaise Pascal's strategy to "warm, not instruct" in writing The Book of Love .  That ...
8.10.2026

A Poem

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Were you not told? "Do not run." That care with these sharps was needful? The Lord's name is a razor. His Word, a blade. L...
8.07.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 15, "He kepyth us even alike sekir in wo and in wele...both is one love"

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"He kepyth us even alike sekir in wo and in wele...both is one love" In Chapter 15 Julian shares her seventh showing. In this show...
8.06.2026

The Exorcism of the Gerasene Demoniac: The Primacy of Sanity Over Morality

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Out at the prison we were looking at Jesus’ exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac in the Gospel of Mark. The first thing we noted is how the de...
8.05.2026

All Is Grace: Cosmic Gratitude and the Christian Life

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Gratitude is consistently correlated with greater well-being in the psychological literature. As I describe in  The Shape of Joy , people wh...
8.04.2026

The World in God: An Introduction to the Theology of Sergius Bulgakov

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In 2023, I shared six online reflections in a series exploring the theology of Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944). I’m pulling those posts togethe...
8.03.2026

Religion as Resonance

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There's a clip from an interview with the musician and author Nick Cave about the contrast he sees between religion and spirituality. ...
7.31.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 14, "I saw Him rialy regne in His hous, and fulfillid it with joy and mirth"

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"I saw Him rialy regne in His hous, and fulfillid it with joy and mirth" In Chapter 14 Julian shares her sixth showing: And in thi...
7.30.2026

The Secrets of the Kingdom: The Parables of Matthew 13

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I was revisiting my 2024 reflections on the parables of Matthew 13. Specifically related to something I share in The Book of Love regarding...
7.29.2026

The Psychology and Spirituality of Tears

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There is a line I love from  Psalm 56 : "You have collected all my tears in your bottle."  Whenever I think of this imagery—God as...
7.28.2026

To Warm, Not Instruct

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There is a famous line from the Pensées of Blaise Pascal: " The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a tho...
7.27.2026

The Vietnam War as Neurotic Failure

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I recently finished reading Max Hastings’ book about the Vietnam War, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945–1975 . Highly recommended as a single-v...
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