Lent is often portrayed as a time of giving up something, a time of self-denial. Thus, it becomes a human effort to prepare oneself for the coming of Easter. It attempts to reflect on Jesus’ time in the desert as…

Each week I have my students in Theology 1 write four statements to see the interworking of the Father, Son, Spirit, and the Church. What this does is to see that every doctrine needs to be seen in 4-D to…

It is easy to think of God as beyond the sphere of daily human life. But we must see God as deeply caring for our human existence. In his essay on the Humanity of God, Karl Barth unpacks why this…

It is a challenge to find words to make sense of what we mean by sharing God’s life. We talk of union, communion, perichoresis, theosis, participation, mutuality, and a host of other terms. What does that all mean? When I…

I have been watching Grey’s Anatomy, the medical series filmed to explore the history of developing medical interns at a Seattle hospital. I keep wondering what it would look like to have trinitarian theologians develop a teaching hospital that would…

One of the objectives of the gospel is to open our understanding of the world beyond our illusions and ignorance. This might be called making contact with reality. It is clear from the history of science, that we often misread…

It has been just over a year since I lost a daughter to suicide. Has it mattered that I am a trinitarian theologian in the days that have followed? I have learned that suicide is not a simple human act…

As I reflect on the practice of theology, I find it is often lived in the head or in abstract language. I am discovering for my own life that it is best to engage the Gospel of the Triune God…