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

9.07.2026

On Dreams

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I was reading through Job and reached Chapter 33, a part of Elihu's response to Job. Here it is:  For God does speak—now one way, now an...
9.04.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 19, "I lerid to chose Jesus to my Hevyn"

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"I lerid to chose Jesus to my Hevyn" There are two different things I want to reflect upon in Chapter 19 of Julian's Revelatio...
9.03.2026

On Possibility and Necessity: Part 3, Suffocating on Necessity

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To recap. In The Sickness Unto Death , Søren Kierkegaard describes the human self as a relation to the relation that constitutes human being...
9.02.2026

On Possibility and Necessity: Part 2, Lost in Possibility

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Having set out Søren Kierkegaard's description of the self in the last post, I want to turn to some of his reflections on the topic that...
9.01.2026

On Possibility and Necessity: Part 1, A Relation that Relates Itself to Itself

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I've been reading The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard and was struck by his reflections regarding possibility and necessity in...
8.31.2026

Only the Cross and Folly

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This religion so great in miracles, in men holy, pure and irreproachable, in scholars, great witnesses and martyrs, established kings - Davi...
8.28.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 18, "Here saw I a gret onyng betwyx Christe and us"

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"Here saw I a gret onyng betwyx Christe and us" In Chapter 18, Julian shares how the entirety of creation comes to sympathetically...
8.27.2026

The Five Mistakes of Spiritual Formation

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This summer I taught two different DMin courses in spiritual formation. As part of those classes, I shared what I have called in my online w...
8.26.2026

Go, and Do Not Discriminate: The Spirit, Unauthorized Zones, and Crises of Authority

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In 2018 our Bible class at church was studying the Holy Spirit using Jack Levison's book Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Life...
8.25.2026

"Remember Your Guardian Angel": Letter 54 from J.R.R. Tolkien

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I've been reading the letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.  Today I was delighted by Letter 54, written to Christopher Tolkien in January of 1944....
8.24.2026

The Moralism of Jesus

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What do we think about when we think about Jesus? Progressive Christians tend to see a social justice warrior and a kind, compassionate huma...
8.21.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 17, "there was no payne that might be suffrid leke to that sorow that I had to se Him in payne"

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"there was no payne that might be suffrid leke to that sorow that I had to se Him in payne" In Chapter 17, Julian continues her pr...
8.20.2026

A Book of Love for Everyone: Part 6, Love is Hard

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The simplest reason of The Book of Love is for everyone, for both conservative and progressive readers of Scripture, is that love is hard. ...
8.19.2026

A Book of Love for Everyone: Part 5, Love Demands an Ontology of Life

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In Part 2 of this series I described how, for conservative readers of the Bible, reading Scripture as a book of love was mainly a hermeneuti...
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