Our lives are enclosed by scars. We begin life with a scar (basically what a belly button is), we accumulate scars all throughout, and we will resurrected with our scars like Christ. That should shape our expectations for ourselves and others, I think.

Next up is food and gender 🥩🥗

LA Theology Conference (March 12-14 2025) has five great plenary speakers, and here's a sneak peek at our 12 parallel papers. Check them out, register now:

I’m headed to England! Excited to join the faculty of Trinity College in Bristol.

Plus 12 parallel sessions (sorry, you have to choose), including Fellipe do Vale, Sherelle Ducksworth, Ph.D, Cambria Kaltwasser, Chad Helmer, and many more.

If it can be demonstrated that a particular understanding of human nature is facilitating systemic trauma to significant swaths of its participants, then that construal must be abandoned, for it could not be from God, for God is not a God of evil. Fellipe do Vale Gender as Love

An excellent day of book releases!

“A Christian doctrine has become empty and toothless when it offers merely conceptual puzzles that must be solved, riddles that must be dissolved.” -Katherine Sonderegger, “Towards a Doctrine of Resurrection”

Honored to be giving the Annual Noll Lecture in the History of Christianity at Wheaton on Thursday March 6th. Do come by if you are in the Wheaton/Chicago area! The topic is right at the heart of my research for the past two years, v excited to present it for the first time

I just finished administering my ethics exams. I let the students pick the topics to discuss from what we covered in class. An overwhelming majority chose to reflect on sexual assault. I’m grateful to see a new generation of ministers take this issue seriously.

I'm excited to be giving a paper at LATC this year! I'll be developing an Augustinian theology of contextual goods.

“Your soul, if it is without the Holy Spirit, that is without love, will be counted as being dead.” - Augustine, Homilies on John, 9.8

Check out our booth at the Los Angeles Theology Conference, taking place March 12-14 at Biola University!

Today I went to a systematic theology conference and every paper I heard were given by women. I think that’s terrific. #LATC

I’m off to Oxford this week to give a paper on gender, politics, and theology! But first, a visit to Trinity College to get to know folks and see the city.

A joy to welcome 40 established & younger scholars from over 24 countries to Oxford for the Political Theologies of a Democratic Common Life sponsored in part by the The McDonald Centre

This is a great new initiative by my future colleague, Sofi!

Hoping to get a lot done on this over the following week.

Congratulations to my dear friend, Daniel Hill, on the publication of his book! Daniel is such a sharp thinker and terrific theologian. This book will be helpful! (Also, what a cover!)