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

7.14.2026

Theology Is Its Own Apologetics: Henri de Lubac and the Shape of Joy

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I've started reading Jordan Hillebert book Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Human Existence . As I've written about before, de Lubac...
7.13.2026

"I Shall Be Love": The Mystical Heart of Thérèse of Lisieux's Little Way

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Longtime readers will know that I have a particular devotion to Thérèse of Lisieux. Encountering Thérèse's Little Way was a decisive mom...
7.10.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 12, "His dearworthy blood descended down into Hell and broke the bonds"

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"His dearworthy blood descended down into Hell and broke the bonds" Through eleven chapters Julian has shared three of her showing...
7.09.2026

"Judas, Peter" by Lucy Shaw

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"Judas, Peter" by Lucy Shaw Because we are all betrayers, taking silver, and eating body and blood, and asking (guilty) is it ...
7.08.2026

The Stop and the Go: The Impingement of God Upon Human Consciousness

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In The Book of Love I describe how the cross is a theophany, marking no change in the life of God but a revelation of how God has always an...
7.07.2026

The Parable of the Tradition-Maxxer and the Non-Denominational Protestant

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And Jesus also told this parable to some who trusted in the superiority of their tradition and regarded other Christians with contempt: ...
7.06.2026

On Tradition-Maxxing

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On Substack Notes I coined a term: tradition-maxxing . I came up with the term after reading the viral essay I've Been Orthodox for Ove...
7.03.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 11, "Se I am God; se I am in al thing"

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"Se I am God; se I am in al thing" In Chapter 11 we begin to enter into some of the thornier aspects of Julian's thought. Agai...
7.02.2026

Loving to the End

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The Gospels describe Jesus’ final words in different ways. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark describe a cry of abandonment: “My God, my God, w...
7.01.2026

The Disenchantment Death Spiral: The Immanence Feedback Loop

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In 2022, I wrote a series about how churches unintentionally disenchant themselves through habits of speech and practice. Since then, I'...
6.30.2026

Rethinking the Fall: Ancestral Sin Versus Original Sin

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In The Slavery of Death I introduce readers to the Orthodox vision of "Ancestral Sin" as opposed to the vision known as "Ori...
6.29.2026

The Sign of Them That Believe

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I’ve been writing online since 2007, and over the years I’ve covered many different topics. One of my favorite series was on the snake-hand...
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6.26.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 10, "the continual sekyng of the soule plesith God ful mekyl"

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"the continual sekyng of the soule plesith God ful mekyl" In Chapter 10 Julian moves from her first showing—Christ crowned with th...
6.25.2026

Justification by Faith, Judgment by Works

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Ever since the Protestant Reformation , Christians have tended to read Paul as opposing any notion of “works-based righteousness.” Salvation...
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