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

7.25.2025

Psalm 112

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"taking great delight in his commands" We're getting close to the great Torah psalm, Psalm 119. But I'm jumping on this li...
7.24.2025

Does God Have Emotions?: Part 1, Beware Releasing God's Hate Into the World

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Does God have emotions? This question seems to have an obvious answer. Of course God has emotions. Scripture, especially the Old Testament, ...
7.23.2025

Opening the Door: The Limits of Positive Psychology and the Source of Mental Health

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In this seminal book A Secular Age, Charles Taylor describes what he calls "the immanent frame." The immanent frame has been much...
7.22.2025

Identity and the Crucifixion of the Ego

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Over the last few weeks I've seen sharing here reflections about the relationship between humility and mental health. The point I've...
7.21.2025

"It Should Not Be So Among You": Reflections on Hierarchy, Power, and Spiritual Warfare

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Last week's reflections about Bob Sutton's book  The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn'...
7.18.2025

Psalm 111

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"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" A very famous line. Though not untroubled by modern concerns. The critical word,...
7.17.2025

The No Asshole Rule

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Yesterday I reflected upon "stress tests" related to the virtue of humility. One of those tests concerned how we treat people of l...
7.16.2025

The Stress Tests of Humility

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As I've shared in this space, the virtue of humility plays a featured role in the story I tell in  The Shape of Joy  about mental health...
7.15.2025

The Two Trees of the Human Predicament

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Last fall I did a series entitled "A Theology of Everything" in a personal attempt to gather and harmonize some theological commit...
7.14.2025

That Rock Was Christ

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Out at the prison we were in the book of Numbers.  (We're going straight through the Bible. We've done this once before and it took ...
7.11.2025

Psalm 110

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“Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool” Psalm 110.1 is one of the most quoted lines in the New Testament. The Davidi...
7.10.2025

A Map and Brief History of Celtic Christianity

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Preparing for the class on Celtic Christianity I recently taught in Ireland, I spent some time looking around online for a map and timeline ...
7.09.2025

Habits of the Heart: Part 3, Sanctifying Your Story

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In the last post I described how acquiring emotional dispositions involves narrative. The stories we tell shape our meaning-making processes...
7.08.2025

Habits of the Heart: Part 2, Story, Emotion, and Transcendence

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The point I made in the last post is that spiritual formation must involve moving from emotions to dispositions. Rather than waiting on exte...
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