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

12.19.2025

Psalm 133

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"How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!" Psalm 133 is a short psalm of praise for the blessings...
12.18.2025

Soteriology and Mental Health: Clashing Expectations Regarding Divine Action

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This semester I shared a lecture with my students that had its origins in a series I did here in 2023 concerning clashing expectations we ha...
12.17.2025

Right Emotions and Habits of the Heart

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Last spring I wrote about how, in addition to orthodoxy ("right belief") and orthopraxy ("right practice"), the Christia...
12.16.2025

Enchantment, Emergence, and Egregores: Part 5, There Are No Good Demons

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For most of this series we've been thinking of egregores as an emergent phenomenon arising from a social collective that comes to exert ...
12.15.2025

Enchantment, Emergence, and Egregores: Part 4, Dark Angels, Ideology, and Idolatry

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I've mentioned that this series was prompted by encountering Valentin Tomberg's discussion of egregores in  Meditations on the Tarot...
12.14.2025

Third Sunday of Advent: A Poem

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"Magi" We seek in sand beneath the stars, plotting fixed coordinates upon the sifting, mutable, and inconstant. Sweaty cartogr...
12.12.2025

Psalm 132

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"on him his crown will shine" Psalm 132 weaves together cultic and royal imagery. From the cultic angle, there's a focus upon ...
12.11.2025

Enchantment, Emergence, and Egregores: Part 3, Egregoric Possession as an Emergent Phenomenon

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I wrote Reviving Old Scratch in 2016 during my early years of prison ministry. As you can tell from the subtitle of the book--"Demons ...
12.10.2025

Enchantment, Emergence, and Egregores: Part 2, The Demons of the Nations

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In the last post I described how the egregore is identified as a demonic power holding sway over a group . And while that isn't how we t...
12.09.2025

Enchantment, Emergence, and Egregores: Part 1, The Demonic Possession of Groups

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I've mentioned how I encountered Valentin Tomberg's  Meditations on the Tarot , his exploration of Christian Hermeticism. And while ...
12.08.2025

The Antichrist and the Katechon: Part 5, Desacralize the Katechon

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As described in Part 3 of this series, Wolfgang Palaver was influential in introducing the Biblical notion of the katechton into Girardian t...
12.07.2025

Second Sunday of Advent: A Poem

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"Mary" Toil over. Weary twilight comes. Silence and rest. And she, unaware, of the cosmic singularity that is herself. Eternit...
12.05.2025

Psalm 131

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"my soul is like a weaned child" The short Psalm 131 is built around a single image, a weaned child resting with his or her mother...
12.04.2025

The Antichrist and the Katechon: Part 4, The Katechonic Irony of Peter Thiel

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As I mentioned, my explorations into Girardian thinking regarding the katechon were kicked off by my colleague David sharing a recent Wired ...
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