This week I read Kenneth Schenck's magnificent little primer to Philo, A Brief Guide to Philo  (Westminster John Knox, 2005), which has ...

Greg Monette has raised some helpful questions about the criterion of embarrassment and especially my essay in Chris Keith and Anthony Le Do...

I mentioned earlier that I've started reading Richard Beck's, book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality  (Wi...

At the recommendation of a colleague, I've started reading Richard Beck's book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and M...

Over at PEJE IESOUS, Christopher Skinner has linked to a very good reflection piece from  Inside Higher Ed  on the challenges (and methods)...

These are hard days. They're good days; don't get me wrong. But I find myself in a season of my faith where I am especially aware o...

This is not an academic post. If you read Verily Verily for the scholarly things I write—if you're one of the three people who fit that...