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...
10.21.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 3, The Grain of the Universe

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Another way to describe the relationship between well-being and ontology is to observe how the Old and New Testaments portray "the grai...
10.20.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 2, Maximus and Julian

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In his theology Maximus the Confessor deploys a triadic structure describing the relationships between being, well-being, and eternal well-b...
10.19.2025

Psalm 124

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“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side” At the start of a lecture concerning the role of God in our mental health, I begin by ask...
10.16.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 1, Flourishing Pointing Toward Ontology

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Since the publication of The Shape of Joy I've spent a lot of time pondering the relationship between ontology and well-being. That is ...