You can't follow Jesus and hate immigrants. That doesn't settle every policy question, but it should shape the posture we bring to those questions.
https://joshuapsteele.com/you-cant-follow-jesus-and-hate-immigrants/
Now Ohio just needs its own Talarico to step up and take Bernie Moreno’s seat when it’s open!
If we’re gonna get real relief here in the USA, the “Big Blue Wave” also needs to wash out Democratic Party leadership. Schumer, Jeffries, et al. need to step aside and let a new generation of better leaders take over.
Which is the most important and urgent system, structure, or issue to get rid of for the overall health of USA 🇺🇸? (1) Citizens United. (2) Electoral College. (3) ?
Big head? Bald head? Finding a hat that actually fits can become a project. Here's what I found when I tried hats from Carhartt, Flexfit, and Ankor.
https://joshuapsteele.com/finding-a-hat-for-my-big-bald-head/
What are we listening to today? 🎵🎶
When someone is sick, it can be hard to know what to pray. Here are prayers from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer for illness, surgery, recovery, and those providing care.
What kind of work fits your skills, values, and preferred working conditions? Here's my walkthrough of the Flower Petal exercise, with my own results from 2021.
https://joshuapsteele.com/what-color-is-my-parachute-the-flower-petal-exercise/
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