NT interpreter and theologian | teaching @BostonCollege | views my own

Connecticut, USA
Joined July 2018
I'm excited to announce that a revised edition of my book on Paul's 'strength in weakness' in 2 Corinthians releases with @ivpacademic this October! Originally a monograph with @mohrsiebeck, this edition adds material for pastors/students. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/tppmpk92
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To cap off release week, I'm doing a free book giveaway. Retweet to enter. The winner will be randomly selected next week (continental US only please). More on the book here at Amazon: https:// tinyurl.com/3rwcznk6
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Ross is right about the vibrancy of evangelicalism. But a distinction needs to be made. The strongest currents of Protestantism in the US are Wesleyan, not Calvinist, Pentecostal rather than Presbyterian. When intellectual Protestants wax triumphant about an “evangelical century,” they are celebrating the success of a form of Christianity that differs in significant ways from their own. I was raised in a non-denominational evangelical church. When I became “young, restless, and Reformed,” my parents were alarmed. They asked the pastor how to handle my evident defection from the faith. Whatever I believed, they thought, it wasn’t true Christianity. Intellectual Protestants—the kind who attend Anglican churches or imbibe high-proof Calvinist texts—represent traditions of belief that have helped shape this country. But in terms of sociology and doctrine, they are alienated from the most vigorous contemporary expressions of American Christianity.
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It's release day! After working to make my research on Paul's 'power in weakness' more accessible to the church, the time has come... The revised and expanded edition of Pain and Paradox in 2 Corinthians is available here: tinyurl.com/3rwcznk6 @ivpacademic
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I don't agree with everything in this Times interview with @Peter_Wehner but I appreciated theologian and former Harvard divinity professor Sarah Coakley's words of warning here: nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…
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The worst C. S. Lewis adaptation was that one where his fans made him into an evangelical.
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I'm currently writing my paper for the Romans and Christian Theology conference next weekend @ptseminary! It offers a proposal for how to move the 'Paul and Politics' conversation beyond Wright-Barclay debates. Looking forward to the excellent lineup! ptsem.edu/academics/departme…
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Happy Pastor Appreciation Day. We appreciate you keeping the sermon short so we can beat the Methodists to the Golden Corral.
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New Issue of New Testament Studies now available 📚 cup.org/4y66ssu #NewTestament #ReligiousStudies
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The SBL promotion has started! My book is 40% off with free US shipping at ivpress.com/pain-and-paradox… with code IVP26SBL.
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11 years ago this past week we moved to Durham, UK! Time flies but so grateful to have lived and studied there.
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The brain trust at Anthropic has no concept of what sin is, as evidenced by the fact that they think a free agent "could be made to choose goodness." It doesn't work that way, I'm afraid. Some famous stories that illustrate this, in fact. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an…
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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The advance copies are arriving!! And friends are already posting about the book. Thank you! You can preorder here for an Oct. 20th delivery: tinyurl.com/5n6tdb8e
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One of the best Christian takes on AI ethics and limits has to be Meghan Sullivan's DELTA project at Notre Dame. If you're looking for some hope amidst the daily AI doom scrolling, this @commonwealmag podcast episode is awesome: commonwealmagazine.org/podca…
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On September 27, 1940, Walter Benjamin ended his life while fleeing the Gestapo.
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I’ll believe people are really concerned about the ill effects of parents’ decisions on their children when I hear some concern—any at all—about what wealth and privilege–hoarding does to children. 1/
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This isn’t a novel point, but underneath many of the morally-charged discoursey arguments on here is the lack of a common moral ground. And these arguments are actually proxies for distinct moral positions that may not even be understood by the arguers.
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Partly a review of Mark Goodacre's latest book The Fourth Synoptic Gospel, partly a reflection on what I'm taking away from it and where our field might go from here. patheos.com/blogs/religionpr…
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I'm currently working out of a folder named 'Writing 2025' and [checks notes] it's nearly 2027. Ah, the writing life.
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Meryl Streep or not, I love this doorknob on the rectory where Thomas Hamilton, C.S. Lewis's grandfather, lived in Belfast. Lewis never mentions the doorknob, but he spent lots of time here and many speculate that it planted a seed in the young Lewis's mind.
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