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

11.18.2025

René Girard and Moral Influence: Part 1, Why Did Jesus Die?

In this series I want to make a simple point. Specifically, René Girard's scapegoat theory is a moral influence view of salvation. And b...

11.17.2025

To Give Back the Gift

Having finished another reading of The Lord of the Rings , a summer reading tradition of mine, I was working back through the Appendices. I ...

11.14.2025

Psalm 128

"It shall be well with you" Psalm 128 is a Wisdom psalm, expressing a vision of human flourishing for those who fear the Lord and...

11.13.2025

Christ at Wounded Knee

Having mentioned Black Elk this week, discussing the First Nations Version of the New Testament and Psalms, I was put in mind of my 2022 ser...

11.12.2025

First Nations Version Psalm 91

Having written about the First Nations Version of the Psalms I thought I'd share an example. Here is Psalm 91: All who make their home ...

11.11.2025

First Nations Version: Psalms and Proverbs

I wrote about the publication of the First Nations Version of the New Testament when it first came out. The First Nations Version, publishe...

11.10.2025

Where the Knowledge of Faith Threatens Us

In a recent series of mine I floated an analytic framework to describe different aspects of faith and their interrelationships. It was a th...

11.07.2025

Psalm 127

"eating the bread of anxious toil" The opening verses of Psalm 127 describe the vanity and futility of human effort separated from...

11.06.2025

Saving the Story: Part 3, The Curse Free Zone

In Colossians 1.13, Paul declares, "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved So...

11.05.2025

Saving the Story: Part 2, The Primordial Curse

But the Deuteronomic curses were not the only curses that needed to be dealt with. Jesus substituting himself for Israel, becoming the Suff...

11.04.2025

Saving the Story: Part 1, Covenantal Substitutionary Atonement

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

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

"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

Since joining Substack, to create an email subscription option for my blog, I've been slowly exposed to the Substack ecosystem. While I ...

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