You need to know what a thing is before you know how you must regard it and how you may treat it. When I was…
Flesh and Blood Bioethics
Excerpts from “Disability and the Resurrection Body in Light of the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor” Concordia Theological Quarterly, summer 2025 One thing that is common…
In May 2024, I gave a presentation called Don’t Freak Out: Disability and the Resurrection Body in Light of the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor. Below…
Human Exceptionalism I frequently ask my students this question: If you walked along the shore and came upon a stranger drowning but then looked around…
In America we have an infatuation with separating cause and effect, action and consequence, which is not always bad. The risk you run is that…
Herod the King / In his raging / Charged he hath this day His men of might / In his own sight / All children…
“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” (John 1:14) On this holy day, we remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Many of…
My brother killed himself on June 3, 1992. It was the summer between my first and second year at the seminary. His sudden and violent…
Aware that my favorite day in the church year is The Ascension of Our Lord, a friend showed me a cartoon that depicted Jesus ascending…
The genetic revolution is upon us. If you would like to get a grasp on what is here now, what is coming, and what might…