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Notes on Trust, Contingency and Chapter Seventeen
The unfolding of Chapter Seventeen's architecture and approach feels compelling. I’m thinking aloud here about potential areas of research.
Oct 56 min read


SpicyGingerBiscuits, Pilot Lights, and Router Theology
When I got a new mobile router, I was staring at Spicy Ginger Biscuits. The whole thing got me started on memories of 1980s Olympic-style evangelism. That's technology for you.
Oct 22 min read


Catacombs and Smuggling
How can I say this loudly enough. There are sites that get the job done, and there are sites that don't think that was the point.
Sep 253 min read
Notes on AI, theology, imagination, and the origins that might make the difference
You get knocked over by a wave. It was 5ft. No, sorry, 50ft. No, sorry, 50,000ft… or like Job. At what point is the hurt such that the scale isn't the point. Oh, and AI.
Sep 244 min read


In Crisis and in Christ: Interdisciplinary Discipleship at Chapter Seventeen
These things would only ever happen in church or in a crisis. (Like Tom Hanks with an ice skate — needs must. Sometimes. Other times it's inappropriate, dangerous, outrageous and misguided.) Hence my new fancy word, ship-wreck-less-ons. The kind of things any one of us might learn in Chapter Seventeen.
Sep 234 min read


Why No One Needs Another Course on Plastic Hammers
So many things to say about the nature of reality as seen through plastic hammers for babies and how teachers — like, God, for example — teach.
Sep 93 min read


As if by Magic: Theology, Imagination, and a Thought Experiment
My website looks quite standard until that menu item — Stage Door. It's what happens with a literary imagination birthed in Bible and Bagpuss.
Sep 83 min read


thinking [not aloud]
Just an average writing day, but genuinely finding my private thinking interrupted by questions about how that might seem if said aloud.
Sep 81 min read


Mind the Gap: AI, Silence, and the Cost of Meaning
There's a gap here, but it's not nothing. It's between the actor and the audience, the words and the meaning, and between artificial intelligence and — Spirit and Truth, perhaps?
Sep 73 min read
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