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Next week at Whitworth University: so many good people talking about things that matter--calling, character, and an education of the mind, heart, & soul. Come hear James K.A. Smith, Hokumist, Jessica Hooten Wilson, @bethallisonbarr, Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD, & Eric Gregory eventbrite.com/e/renewing-min…

If you're interested in exploring how your faith and commitment to the common good might dovetail together, I can't recommend this fellowship more highly. The community that Michael Wear, Phebe Meyer, & Co. managed to create with my 2024 cohort was incredibly life-giving.

Scenes from day one of a conference long in the planning: coffee and conversation with Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD, @bethallisonbarr, Hokumist, Eric Gregory, opening plenary remarks, and a standing room-only concert from The Porter’s Gate.

It's a wrap. So many life-giving conversations with new and old friends on Christian formation, justice, and not gaining the whole world only to lose your soul. Thanks to James K.A. Smith, @bethallisonbarr, Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD, Hokumist, Eric Gregory, and Jessica Hooten Wilson

One of my most treasured memories is meeting Gustavo Gutierrez while studying at Notre Dame. In an age when many Christians grasp for power for its own sake, Fr. Gutierrez shook me to my core—an exemplar of Christlike solidarity with the poor in status and in spirit.

One year ago today: married the smartest, kindest, most beautiful person I'd ever met. We're spending our anniversary in a way neither of us ever wanted or could anticipate. But cancer doesn't get the last word.

Once again, Jake Meador is doing good work drawing attention to political theology from scholars who draw deeply on the historical tradition to address contemporary concepts too often strawmanned. This time, it’s Bowlin’s work on the virtue of tolerance plough.com/en/topics/just…

There are silver linings to having Seattle as a temporary second home

Found myself re-reading the introduction of Jeffrey Stout's *Democracy and Tradition* this morning. This was written 20 years ago, or perhaps today.

"Those content with the simulacrum of the barn owls enshackle themselves to their sense perception, and will not encounter the true Barn Owl itself."

My new piece in Comment: on the grace of choosing to love unlikely objects of love comment.org/choosing-the-i…

“Perhaps the prospect of a friendship with someone is itself reason to develop—or at least endeavour to develop—some mutual interests.” David Henreckson on friendship. bit.ly/3V6xtLt

On the 13th day of #Advent we look at Makoto Fujimura's painting inspired by #Psalm 139: thevcs.org/campaign/brigh… It brings moody layers evocative of Rothko’s paintings into the light of present wonder and praise, to sing with the psalmist, ‘I am fearfully and wonderfully made’.

This piece is worth reading, maybe twice over. nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opi…

Perfectly modulated take from Samuel Kimbriel on the pedestrian "effective accelerationism" of the tech power brokers wisdomofcrowds.live/p/of-giants-an…

Feeling grateful for this community of good people who took a leap in forming the pilot cohort of the Call & Character Faculty Fellows program. Thanks also to the folks at The Program for Leadership and Character for funding our seminar conversations.

Habemus a White Sox fan, praise be. wgntv.com/news/pope-leo/…

One of my very favorite pieces of writing from a dear friend in one of my very favorite journals comment.org/redeeming-time/

Not many folks I want to read more these days than Dorothy Day. *The Long Loneliness* just... sings.

My elder-millennial emo spiritually-saturated top 10 list, courtesy of the The New York Times. Although I feel uncultured at the total lack of overlap with my favorite film critic, Alissa Wilkinson.