The USA healthcare-insurance-industrial-complex is truly insane. All together, my insurance was billed $51K for my appendectomy. $10K for my sleep study. (“Thankfully,” I didn’t have to pay that much, because we met our deductible this year, because I got appendicitis twice…)
Having an argument is one thing; getting it onto the page is another. These templates from They Say / I Say can help with quotations, objections, and explaining why a claim matters.
Just thinking about all the money spent on all the mailers that have flooded JUST MY ONE Ohio mailbox and it makes me furious. We need to get money out of politics.
Are the Beatitudes requirements for entering God's kingdom? Barth and Bonhoeffer push back on that reading. Some notes from my dissertation research.
https://joshuapsteele.com/interpretive-approaches-to-the-beatitudes/
An impossible ideal? A call to discipleship? An ethic of the kingdom? I gathered some major approaches to interpreting the Sermon on the Mount.
https://joshuapsteele.com/interpretive-approaches-to-the-sermon-on-the-mount/
Before the next argument: T. Edward Damer's twelve principles for intellectual conduct, including fallibility, charity, and knowing when to suspend judgment.
https://joshuapsteele.com/damers-code-of-intellectual-conduct/
This warm late-October weather is pleasant enough, don’t get me wrong. But it’s freaking me out a bit. Not expecting much, if any, snow this winter.
Trying to place Bonhoeffer's books alongside the events of his life? I collected two chronologies of his studies, ministry, resistance, and imprisonment.
https://joshuapsteele.com/bonhoeffer-timeline-a-brief-chronology-of-dietrich-bonhoeffers-life/
Trying to find your way around Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics? Here's an outline, including section summaries and a downloadable outline from Princeton.
https://joshuapsteele.com/an-outline-of-karl-barths-church-dogmatics/
On male friendships, or the lack thereof
https://joshuapsteele.com/please-dont-leave-me-alone-on-male-friendships-or-the-lack-thereof/
A prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas before study
https://joshuapsteele.com/prayer-of-st-thomas-aquinas-before-study/
Here's an old attempt of mine to summarize my theology at the time
Finally got a Concept2 “RowErg” rowing machine (used on FB Marketplace). Now I just need my post-appendectomy abdomen to finish healing so I can use it!
What's the Trinity and (why) is it important?
I love Leathermans, and finally bought myself the Skeletool CX I’ve had my eye on for years. But I just can’t see myself spending $250 on the Leatherman ARC. Is it really that much better than the Wave+ to be almost twice as expensive?
It’s been 10 years since I last called myself an evangelical. And I’m bracing myself for yet another election in which 🇺🇸 evangelicals will vote MAGA in large numbers. Hopefully the rest of us can deliver a strong rebuke to the fascist/authoritarian GOP at the ballot box. 🗳️
Most people read Romans 13 incorrectly
I wrote my own wedding vows, but tried to keep them traditional
35 today 🎂. Old enough to run for President! I’m neither qualified nor interested, but I wouldn’t be the worst one! 😁
Here's how I tried to summarize the book of Romans in college