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

11.10.2025

Where the Knowledge of Faith Threatens Us

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In a recent series of mine I floated an analytic framework to describe different aspects of faith and their interrelationships.  It was a th...
11.07.2025

Psalm 127

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"eating the bread of anxious toil" The opening verses of Psalm 127 describe the vanity and futility of human effort separated from...
11.06.2025

Saving the Story: Part 3, The Curse Free Zone

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In Colossians 1.13, Paul declares, "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved So...
11.05.2025

Saving the Story: Part 2, The Primordial Curse

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But the Deuteronomic curses were not the only curses that needed to be dealt with.  Jesus substituting himself for Israel, becoming the Suff...
11.04.2025

Saving the Story: Part 1, Covenantal Substitutionary Atonement

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Over the years I've written about what I have called covenantal substitutionary atonement as an alternative to penal substitutionary ato...
11.03.2025

Jesus Was Simply There: On Primitivism and the Real Presence

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That Thursday, I said some provocative things about Catholicism and Orthodoxy in relation to the first-century church. To be clear, my point...
10.31.2025

Psalm 126

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"Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy." We find ourselves in an in-between place with Psalm 126, looking back and...
10.30.2025

Those Who Love Christianity More Than Christ: Toxic Converts and Finding the One True Church

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Since joining Substack, to create an email subscription option for my blog, I've been slowly exposed to the Substack ecosystem. While I ...
10.29.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 8, The Ontological Is Not the Affirmational

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Okay, so what has this series been about? What am I chasing? Well, ever since Hunting Magic Eels , and especially with  The Shape of Joy , I...
10.28.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 7, Common Grace, Natural Reason, and the Science of Human Flourishing

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Over the last few posts a question might have been raised in your mind. If well-being can be pursued "non-religiously," Karl Rahne...
10.27.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 6, Seen and Forgiven

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In the last post I described Karl Rahner's description of making contact with our ontological ground. And recall, Rahner argues that thi...
10.24.2025

Pslam 125

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"Those who trust in the Lord are as secure as Mount Zion" The translations render the first line of Psalm 125 slightly differentl...
10.23.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 5, Anonymous Christians

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In Gaudum et spes , Vatican 2 describes the vocation and fate of the Christian:  The Christian man, conformed to the likeness of that Son Wh...
10.22.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 4, The Substance of All Virtue

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In the last two posts I've been dwelling upon the association between well-being and ontology, how our flourishing flows from attunement...
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