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The Best of 2022: A Reading List

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post. Work and family life gets a little hectic around the end of the semester and the Christmas season. Since 2022 is wrapping up today, I thought I would write a New Year’s post by sharing my favorite books I read this year! Hope you find some ones toContinue reading “The Best of 2022: A Reading List”

Not Safe, but Good

[In the spring of 2020, I was a Teaching Fellow for the class Christianity Engaging Modernity at Boston University’s School of Theology. The course was a required class for all master’s students in STH and was a combination of historical theology and church history, from the beginning of the enlightenment to the present. Halfway through the course,Continue reading “Not Safe, but Good”

Read Your Enemies

[Pictured: my daughter (age 2) next to my copy of the Church Dogmatics] Like most bookish types, my bedside table is often a repository for books. That pile fluctuates quite a bit in size, anywhere from 1 book to staggering piles of 30 or more books that threaten the stability of my marriage – come on,Continue reading “Read Your Enemies”

Semper Reformanda?

Today is October 31st, and there is a holiday that deserves no small amount of recognition. I am referring, of course, to the 505th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Yes, yes, I’m aware of Halloween, and I am looking forward to shortly taking my kids around the neighborhood in their costumes – my daughter in particular hasContinue reading “Semper Reformanda?”

The Return

This blog fell apart as soon as it began. I created the website when a clergy friend of mine, who had been discussing my work with a colleague, asked me if I had a website to which he could refer people. I had never considered the possibility before and figured it could be an interesting project. Continue reading “The Return”

Upcoming Publications

I am pleased to announce that I have two new pieces that will be coming out in academic journals this spring. “‘A God Clothed in Our Form’: Intensifying the Iconoclasm of William Ellery Channing,” which was originally written for the 2019 Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Studies in Baltimore, MD, is going to be published inContinue reading “Upcoming Publications”