Death on April Fool’s Day ✵ Reading Confessions of an Opium-Eater, by Thomas DeQuincy ✵ 1.4.2023 Looking out onto the world ✵ Reading Father and Son, by Edmund Gosse ✵ 21.10.2022 Turning around ✵ Reading The Philosophical Baby, by Alison Gopnik ✵ 3.9.2022 A superior understanding of Canada ✵ Reading Paul Wells on Stephen Harper ✵ 26.8.2022 Predictably conventional ✵ On the Canadian political spectrum ✵ 18.8.2022 To end poverty ✵ On Karl Marx, Jesus Christ, and politics ✵ 15.9.2021 Isaiah’s vision ✵ Reading the Book of Isaiah en français ✵ 1.9.2021 Instances of ideology ✵ On the pandemic politics GraceLife Church ✵ 25.8.2021 What is this that you have done? ✵ Genesis, anthropology, and ideology ✵ 2.4.2021 The passion and the prose ✵ E. M. Forster, Charles Taylor, and the politics of literature ✵ 8.3.2021 That monstrous paradox ✵ On Genesis, Kierkegaard, and history ✵ 15.2.2021 A sudden disintegration ✵ Reading The Evangelicals and Virgin Nation ✵ 1.2.2021 Weary of particulars ✵ On Hegel and the history of art ✵ 14.1.2021 Emperor Trump? ✵ President Trump and the ancient Rome analogy ✵ 30.9.2020 Has God disappeared? ✵ The scope of unbelief today ✵ 24.9.2020 Life’s narrative wholeness ✵ Reading The Republic of Love, by Joyce Carol Oates ✵ 20.7.2020 Seeing First Reformed ✵ Religion and the movies of Paul Schrader ✵ 16.6.2020 This paradise of books ✵ Wandering through the world of literature ✵ 5.6.2020 Unaffected by history? ✵ Reading Rowan Williams on history ✵ 7.6.2020 The history that lies between ✵ Reading Richard Hays on New Testament ethics ✵ 28.4.2020 Bear witness ✵ Reading Canada, by Richard Ford ✵ 17.4.2020 Normative requirements ✵ Reading Christianity: A Global History, by David Chidester ✵ 2.4.2020 Seeing Never Look Away ✵ Sanctifying bourgeois beauty ✵ 30.3.2020 A grand interlocking network ✵ Reading The Educated Imagination, by Northrop Frye ✵ 24.7.2018 The search after truth ✵ Hugo Grotius, religious apologetics, and the Enlightenment ✵ 1.3.2018 Inventing the virtuous atheist ✵ Plutarch, atheism, and the Enlightenment ✵ 1.2.2018 Consensus politics in Canada ✵ Reading Justin Trudeau’s campaign book ✵ 10.10.2017 Seeing Fargo ✵ Watching Season Two ✵ 1.8.2017 Taking the Bible as it is ✵ Or, why that’s not actually possible ✵ 25.7.2017 Seeing the National Photographic Portrait Prize of Australia ✵ 17.7.2017 No religion ✵ On the rise of the nones ✵ 10.7.2017 A whip out of cords ✵ On the politics of Jesus in the Gospel of John ✵ 3.7.2017 Commit sociology ✵ On Stephen Harper’s maladroit phrase ✵ 19.6.2017 Disregard or despair? ✵ Alasdair MacIntyre and C. S. Lewis on modern theology ✵ 12.6.2017 Seeing “The Case for Christ” ✵ Aspects of American evangelical ideology ✵ 5.6.2017 Philip Yancey’s America ✵ A predictably evangelical response to Trump ✵ 13.10.2016 Smart Alec ✵ My dad’s rejoinder to my childhood self ✵ 16.8.2016 Neoliberal Jesus ✵ Reading James Crossley on New Testament scholarship ✵ 28.7.2016 Atheism’s origins ✵ Reading Nick Spencer’s history of atheism ✵ 13.3.2015 The evangelical imagination ✵ Reading Molly Worthen on American evangelicalism ✵ 21.10.2014 Augustine’s mantle ✵ Reading Christian historians on their practice ✵ 30.7.2014 Atheism’s modern history ✵ Reading Gavin Hyman on the history of atheism ✵ 10.10.2012 An engaged faith ✵ Reading Miroslav Volf on public theology ✵ 4.10.2012 Evangelical appropriation ✵ Reading Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind, by Mark Noll ✵ 15.2.2012 Historicizing Christian nationalism ✵ Reading John Fea: historian, Christian, American ✵ 27.11.2011 Ears to hear ✵ Reading Richard Kearny on anatheism: faith after critique ✵ 10.10.2011 Immoral atheism ✵ What Christianity Today (still) gets wrong about atheism ✵ 3.3.2011 Arguing against atheism ✵ Reading five books on the new atheists ✵ 16.5.2010