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

1.22.2026

On Finitude and the Problem of Evil: Part 3, Evil and the Fall

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In the last post I made the point that to exist is to be shadowed by finitude and contingency. And if our experience of finitude and conting...
1.21.2026

On Finitude and the Problem of Evil: Part 2, Existence as Creatures

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We are born into contingency. We are finite creatures subject to entropy. We cannot hold ourselves in being. We slide into nothingness. Bibl...
1.20.2026

On Finitude and the Problem of Evil: Part 1, The Happiness of Sisyphus

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Albert Camus famously opens his book The Myth of Sisyphus with these lines: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that...
1.19.2026

On Intentionality: Part 8, The New Normal Was the Old Normal

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Last post in this series reflecting upon intentionality. Gathering up these reflections, let me suggest that I’ve made two big points. Fir...
1.16.2026

Psalm 137

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"Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks." We reach what is, perhaps, the most notorious line in ...
1.15.2026

On Intentionality: Part 7, The Heart of the Christian Moral Life

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Over the last few posts we've been discussing concerns about how calls for intentionality might contribute to the fragilization of faith...
1.14.2026

On Intentionality: Part 6, Tradition is No Escape

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In this post I want to pick up where I left off in the last post.  To recap, one of the ways many low-church non-denominational Christians a...
1.13.2026

On Intentionality: Part 5, Seeking a Thick Culture

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Given the modern loss of a taken-for-granted Christian culture, what have been some Christian responses? Where do we see people trying to re...
1.12.2026

On Intentionality: Part 4, The Desolations of an Intentional Faith

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I want to continue to reflect a bit more upon how modernity fragilized faith by shifting us from a cultural taken-for-grantedness to a marke...
1.09.2026

Psalm 136

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"his steadfast love endures forever" Psalm 136 is noteworthy for its call and response format. First, there is an expression of th...
1.08.2026

On Intentionality: Part 3, Enchantment by Choice?

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Concerning my own recommendations regarding intentionality, the most pushback I have received is about the role of intentionality in recover...
1.07.2026

On Intentionality: Part 2, Faith as Choice

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In the last post I described how I've made calls for intentionality. From enchantment to hospitality to our mental health, I've argu...
1.06.2026

On Intentionality: Part 1, Disengaging the Autopilot

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I recently read in my  New York Times news feed that we're drowning in the imperative to be "intentional." Being intentional,...
1.05.2026

On Essence and Energies: Part 3, The Vast Burning Bush

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After Palamas’ defense of the hesychasts in The Triads , his dispute with Barlaam of Calabria soon spread throughout the wider church. A ser...
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