11.11.2026

Jesus and Metanoia

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In my recent series on Henri de Lubac, read through the work of Jordan Hillebert, I put forth a neat soteriological formulation. Salvation i...
11.10.2026

Salvation and the Unity of Human Nature: Part 6, Saved as a Whole

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In a prior post I described one speculative implication associated with viewing human nature as a single ontological whole. Specifically, wh...
11.09.2026

Salvation and the Unity of Human Nature: Part 5, Loving Humanity Is Loving Christ

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Beyond the human capacities restored in the Incarnation, there is also an ethical implication in understanding human nature as a shared onto...
11.06.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 27, "Sin is behovabil"

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"Sin is behovabil" Chapter 27 is a significant chapter in Julian's Revelations , so much so that we'll take this week and ...
11.05.2026

Salvation and the Unity of Human Nature: Part 4, Restoring a Capacity of Receptivity to Human Nature

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Okay, over the last few posts I've set out an argument that human nature is an ontological whole. I want to now turn in this series to t...
11.04.2026

Salvation and the Unity of Human Nature: Part 3, Gregory of Nyssa "On the Making of Man"

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In the last post I suggested that Scripture contains hints pointing toward the unity of human nature. As I mentioned, while the biblical vie...
11.03.2026

Salvation and the Unity of Human Nature: Part 2, Adam is Humanity

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In the last post I argued that one of the logical implications of the patristic vision of salvation is that human nature is a single, shared...
11.02.2026

Salvation and the Unity of Human Nature: Part 1, A Single, Unified Human Nature?

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This is going to be a speculative metaphysical series. The topic concerns the unity of human nature and the implications that has for soteri...
10.30.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 26, "The nombre of the words passyth my witte and al my understondyng and al my mights"

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"The nombre of the words passyth my witte and al my understondyng and al my mights..." Chapter 26 brings us to Julian’s twelfth of...
10.29.2026

On Monsters and Scapegoats

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One more reflection as the spooky season comes to a close. What follows is a lightly edited selection from my first book Unclean , a book th...
10.28.2026

The Christian Realism of Bram Stoker's Dracula

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As this year's spooky season comes to a close, I wanted to revisit three posts I shared last year, pulled together and reedited here, ab...
10.27.2026

Transplant Shock and Spiritual Formation in Protestant Spaces: Part 10, Ongoing Ecological Cultivation

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Throughout this series, I have been exploring the idea of "transplant shock" and how it helps us understand the challenges facing ...
10.26.2026

Transplant Shock and Spiritual Formation in Protestant Spaces: Part 9, They Will Receive a Reward

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One more contrast between the soils of spiritual formation. Historically, the practices of spiritual formation grew within a Catholic worldv...
10.23.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 25, "Wilt tho seen in hir how thou art lovid?"

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"Wilt tho seen in hir how thou art lovid?"  In Chapter 25 of Julian's Revelations we reach her eleventh (of sixteen) showings...