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I teach the New Testament and write for , , , & other places. I also helped start .

Ambridge, Pennsylvania
Joined January 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    27 Dec 2017

    I didn't write much online in 2017, but I did enjoy reviewing... Ephraim Radner's book on mortality: 's book on the Beatitudes: and Hart's NT translation: Thanks for reading!

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  2. 9 hours ago

    I remember hearing Marilynne Robinson say at a reading in Minneapolis in 2008, “I don’t know how to be a Christian other than as a [political] liberal,” and I disagreed at the time. I still do, given the content of “liberal” in America 2018, but the disagreement is much smaller.

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    Jan 4

    The whole news media runs on making us pretend Trump is bad in a new way every day. He's not bad in a new way every day. That's the scam. He's bad in the exact same way he's always been. You can guess what he's saying behind closed doors. There are no secrets.

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  4. .: "All ecumenists will testify that their work is sustained and motivated by friendship."

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  5. Read this thread, y'all, and if you haven't already, go on from here and read Eve's book!

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    Jan 27

    As of yesterday the Berlin wall has been down as long as it was up.

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  9. Jan 28

    The version of the “seamless-garment/holistic Christian politics” argument that appeals to me most sometimes is the negative one: I don’t trust the moral intuitions of anyone who doesn’t acknowledge the severity of the moral crises of abortion and racism & classism.

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  12. Jan 28

    Not a bad haul from today. (Forgot that church started an hour earlier this week so ended up coffeeing and bookbuying instead. 🙄)

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  13. Jan 27
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  14. Jan 27

    Always good to see this book still on bookstalls :)

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  15. Jan 27

    One of the best books of biblical scholarship I’ve read in quite a long time.

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    I need to stop reading Twitter and 90 percent of contemporary cultural commentary. None of this is worth being habituated to think “That‘s problematic’ at every striking digression in Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday

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    Jan 26
    Replying to

    Annie Leibowitz took side-by-side portraits of Vegas showgirls in their performance costumes and everyday clothes. They had a huge impact on me as a young person.

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    Jan 26

    Neal Plantinga teaching on the Trinity this afternoon. From his jacket pocket, Siri pipes up, "I'm not sure I understand." – at Calvin Theological Seminary

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  19. Jan 26

    This makes me sad on so many levels, for so many different reasons:

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    Jan 24

    this meme has finally been perfected

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  21. Jan 25

    Maybe now is a good time to say again how grateful I am to teach at a seminary w/ colleagues like the Rev. Dr. Amy Schifrin. Learning from her has made me a better preacher (I hope) & a more catholic Xn. Here’s some advice from her on crafting collects:

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