Aidan Hart is the real deal. Shame on me for not realizing this sooner (though I did know of his work), thanks to Matthew Dallman for getting me to his talk. And in addition to his YouTube talks, he has written it all down. www.aidanharticons.com/product-cate...

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New piece on some recent happenings at Asbury and Wheaton College: millinerd.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

Ashley Lande and I are uniting a divided America at Comment with the modest claim that at least we don't need a bunch of new people dropping acid right now. Things are weird enough already. t.co/mfw3p8AHS4

Raising children as a cheat code.

“I hesitate to use the term “psychedelic” in any kind of a positive way, yet I’ve had the thought that birth is psychedelic in a way that the “best” trip can only ever mimic, and very poorly.”

Intro to this month’s Material Mysticism at @commentmagazine.bsky.social : millinerd.substack.com/p/just-say-no

“I think people are perhaps slowly realizing that psychedelics simply cannot deliver on the promises their proponents aver, and a gradual disillusionment is taking place.” @millinerd.bsky.social interviews Ashley Lande on psychedelics and Christianity.

The September issue of Material Mysticism at Comment Magazine covering psychedelics and Christianity with the ever insightful Ashley Lande: comment.org/decoy-enligh...

Those stale takes on Luther may need an upgrade. This is the upgrade. 👇🏻

Once more, Christians have known this for 2000 years, but we’re delighted psychology is catching up: “I’m going to crush her like a worm, and then I’m going to crush you.” He cites Christian mystics like Dionysius the Areopagite, Maggie Ross and William Johnston as one response.

That time the all-religions-same crowd lost a big fish.

“Perhaps Julian of Norwich does not “belong” to any of the churches. Instead, she was ahead of and above us all, pulling each of us together into a theology that is bigger than our divided communions.” @millinerd.bsky.social on Norwich and the gospel of grace.

Count me in @millinerd.bsky.social: "I invite what’s left of the evangelical elite to join me in full scale disillusionment not with the church (how easy that would be), but with the entire enterprise of scholarship & publishing that some deploy to expose it." millinerd.substack.com/p/i-kissed-e...

It’s been called the Marian event of 2024… by me. The latest of my continuing Comment Magazine ADVENTures begins at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham #MaterialMysticism comment.org/the-secret-o...