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

9.18.2025

The Way of Water: Natural Law, the Tao, and Christ

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In Catholic thought natural law is primarily described as being inscribed upon human nature, the "moral law within." Humans posses...
9.17.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 6, Deep Flourishing

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I'm often better at raising questions than offering solutions. A classic academic trait. Always problematizing, always being critical, b...
9.16.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 5, Strong Relationality

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Over the last two posts I've made the argument that therapy is not as value-neutral as it claims to be. Rather, as Brent Slife, Greg Mar...
9.15.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 4, The Hidden Values of Therapy

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In the last post, I floated the view that therapy, far from being value-neutral, may be smuggling the values of liberalism into our pursuit ...
9.12.2025

Psalm 119

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“Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.” We’ve reached Psalm 119, the great Torah Psalm. Psalm 119 is one of several alphab...
9.11.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 3, Is Therapy a Trojan Horse?

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Using James Mumford's New Atlantis  essay  "Therapy Beyond Good and Evil"  in the last post I raised the question about if hum...
9.10.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 2, Therapy Beyond Radical Skepticism

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In the last post, I described how flourishing is connected to value. Read The Shape of Joy for the details and the science. And yet, despit...
9.09.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 1, Invisible Facts

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In The Shape of Joy I make the argument, following the empirical research of positive psychology, that transcendence is good for you. Some ...
9.08.2025

A Meaningful Knot

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During our time in Ireland last May, my co-leader Claire Davidson Frederick guided our students through walking the prayer labyrinth at Glen...
9.05.2025

Psalm 118

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"It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes." This is my political theology in a nutshell. In my estimat...
9.04.2025

Notes on the Glory of God

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The Hebrew word for "glory" is כָּבוֹד, transliterated as "kavod." Kavod literally means "heavy" or "weig...
9.03.2025

Left Alone the Mind Poisons Itself: On Introspection and Mental Health

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After I publish a book, I get better and better with its elevator pitch. In the months following a book's publication, I often give long...
9.02.2025

St. Brigid and the Divine Feminine: Epilogue, A Day in Kildare

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During our time in Ireland we had some free travel days, and I used one of mine to visit Kildare, the town where St. Brigid's monastery ...
9.01.2025

St. Brigid and the Divine Feminine: Part 5, Mary and Sophia

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Okay, if you've followed this far we have made two separate connections in this series. First, St. Brigid, as "Mary of the Gaels,...
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