I'm buying a lot less from Amazon these days but have to admit that these are pretty great prices for the hardcover, ebook, and audiobook of @weshill.bsky.social's book on Easter. www.amazon.com/Easter-Seaso...

I enjoyed talking about Easter with Kimberly Stuart on her podcast: youtu.be/9tSBLpHH6CM

My friend Jono on Auden’s honest hope in The Sea & the Mirror: mbird.com/literature/t...

I’m leading a retreat at Laity Lodge this summer with the amazing art historian, renaissance man, and true mensch @millinerd.bsky.social: www.laitylodge.org/retreats/202... Please consider yourself invited!

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My book on the season of Easter is out & about in the world as of **today**! 🥳

My book on the season of Easter will be out a week from today: a.co/d/fEuhkF5. I’d be honored and happy if you’d consider preordering it!

I’ve supported World Relief for years and encourage you to do the same. I know some of their staff and I believe they’re doing good work.

I will again tap the sign that I hate how much of the pro-immigrant anti-ice rhetoric still seems to boil down to "its actually good that we have a system where undocumented people can be exploited and treated like wage slaves for cheaper broccoli"

“The US government” does not in fact have the legal right to do this. The wording in the constitution is extremely clear on this question. It is our obligation to say that, each and every day.

I’m currently teaching a 3wk series on the Life of Jesus at Crossroads Bible Church in Grand Rapids (all are welcome!), and I’ve been rereading this book in prep. It is a true gem.

A beautiful tribute to Richard Hays by @weshill.bsky.social . Very much worth your time, even if you’ve read other obits. weshill.substack.com/p/rememberin...

A blessed Epiphanytide to everyone. (The poem is by U. A. Fanthorpe.)

This is a lovely and loving obituary that describes the Richard Hays that I knew as my teacher and, later, my dean and senior colleague. Thank you, @weshill.bsky.social

An appreciation of Richard Hays, by me: weshill.substack.com/p/rememberin...

From Auden’s “Christmas Oratorio.” Merry 12th Night, all! 🎄

I hope to say more about Richard Hays soon (and about his new book on sexuality). But for now I just want to note my deep and abiding gratitude. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

Got back to Holland last night to find that a case of these arrived. Eager to share it with you all soon.

Hard to choose a favorite read of the year but @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social’s *Fully Alive* is a strong contender, as is Sarah Hinlicky Wilson’s *Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration*.

Warning to future dinner guests: I’ll ask y’all to play this new Christmas gift with me.

I was chuffed to see my name on this list too.

By Ugur Gallenkus: ugurgallenkus.com

“… for whatever reason God chose to make man as he is — limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death — He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine.” — Dorothy Sayers

“… it is one and the same one who is born of Mary in Bethlehem and born eternally, begotten of the Father… it is one and the same [who] lies mewling and puking in his mother’s arms and the while restrains Satan.” — Robert Jenson Merry Christmas!

the thing is, he’s as alive today as he was the day he squalled and cried and was put into his mother’s arms; he’s as human and as embodied today as he was on the day he learned to breathe and to eat. what began that day in bethlehem will never end. and the love that caused bethlehem will never end

Good stuff from Philip Yancey. In my experience, evangelicals are woefully underexposed to this

Please join me in praying for Richard.

The Challenger explosion

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 💙📚 #booksky #books

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 💙📚 #booksky #books

Recommended. I, for instance, just ordered a Robert Jenson case for my phone.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 💙📚 #booksky #books

It took time and persistence, but I obtained permission to include Robert Hayden’s achingly beautiful poem “Those Winter Sundays” in my forthcoming book on calling and vocation. Read the poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/...

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 💙📚 #booksky #books

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16 💙📚 #booksky #books

If you’re preaching from the RCL epistle reading this Christmas Eve, I’ve written a very brief commentary for you: www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries...

Just finished teaching my last class of the semester. 🙌🏼 We spent time with one of my very favorite bits of Luther.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15 💙📚 #booksky #books

At AAR/SBL this year I asked one of the main people who would know whether we’re ever likely to see a collection of Robert Jenson’s sermons published. It’s unlikely. Apparently he rarely preached from a manuscript.

I remember one parish in Tucson that had signs at every entry that said law enforcement did not have consent to enter without a signed warrant

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 💙📚 #booksky #books

New Orleans.

A friend points out that I inadvertently posted this on KB’s feast day. The Lord moves in a mysterious way.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 💙📚 #booksky #books

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13 💙📚 #booksky #books

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12 💙📚 #booksky #books

Markus Barth making me excited to be teaching Ephesians for the first time next semester

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11 💙📚 #booksky #books

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 💙📚 #booksky #books

For whatever reason Amazon has this excellent new book by @schlesingene.bsky.social, an Anglican ecumenical theologian teaching at a Roman Catholic university, available at a very deep discount. Run, don't walk, etc. www.amazon.com/Ruptured-Bod...