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Review: God and the Pandemic by N. T. Wright
The coronavirus pandemic has caused considerable upheaval in our world, causing death indiscriminately, ruining livelihoods, disrupting...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 26, 20204 min read


Augustine 2020: Augustine on the Campaign Trail
As Christians approach the 2020 election, a variety of questions are in the air, being discussed by families at dining room tables,...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 23, 20204 min read


Review: Does God Exist? by Matt Fradd and Robert Delfino
Does God Exist? by Matt Fradd and Robert Delfino [1] presents a fictional coffee-house conversation between AJ, an atheist, and Lucy, a...

Scott Carr, Jr.
May 27, 20203 min read
A Leap in the Dark
The proverb, “Faith is a leap in the dark” implies that faith is “something you do without being certain what will happen as a result"...

Scott Carr, Jr.
May 8, 20204 min read


The Possibility of Forgiveness
Ever since his encounter as a Jewish man with a Nazi soldier asking for his forgiveness, Simon Wiesenthal has challenged the world to...

Scott Carr, Jr.
May 4, 20204 min read


Review: The Significance of Singleness by Christian S. Hitchcock
Christina S. Hitchcock’s The Significance of Singleness seeks to address the dearth of theological literature on the subject of...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Apr 29, 20204 min read


Who is the Holy Spirit?
Over the millennia, Christians have confessed the Holy Spirit as fully God, distinct from the Father and the Son as the third person of...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Feb 27, 20206 min read


Bultmann, Jesus, and Myth
Rudolf Bultmann, in Kerygma and Myth, argues that the New Testament is clouded with mythology which modern persons cannot accept. To...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Feb 19, 20205 min read
The Task of Theology
The present essay will focus on the task of theology, specifically changes in defining theology through the methods of Kant,...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Feb 13, 20204 min read
The Copernican Revolution of Theology
The present essay will focus on the task of theology, specifically changes in defining theology through the methods of Kant,...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Nov 18, 20194 min read


Everyone Together
"Even as the congregation meets in separate groups, they are united around the same shared text."

Scott Carr, Jr.
Oct 31, 20194 min read


The Dance of Philosophy and Theology
St. Anselm of Canterbury begins his significant philosophical text, the Proslogion, with a prayer. In it, he reveals his desire to see...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Oct 8, 20192 min read


A Hunger for God in The Good Place
NBC’s critically-acclaimed comedy series, The Good Place, now on its fourth and final season, asks surprisingly serious questions: what...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Sep 9, 20194 min read


The Kingdom and the Cross: Examing Critiques of Bultmann's New Testament Reading
Over forty years after his death, Rudolf Bultmann continues to draw sharp critiques from New Testament scholars, betraying the continuing...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 25, 20193 min read


Are Humans "Thinking Things"?
James K. A Smith criticizes modern philosophy for reducing humans to “brains-on-a-stick” (Smith 3). He particularly singles out Rene...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 12, 20194 min read
Encountering the Hounds in Homeless Ministry
Howard Thurman wrote in his classic work, Jesus and the Disinherited, a series of observations rooted in Jesus’ identity as a poor Jew,...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 6, 20193 min read
Power and Ministry
In Playing God, Andy Crouch provides a fascinating exploration of power, which he associates with God's creative actions in Genesis 1 and...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 28, 20193 min read
Faith Seeking Understanding: Does God Exist?
The Medieval theologian/philosophers endeavored to “demonstrate through logic and argument what [they] believe by faith” (Cleveland 163)....

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 27, 20194 min read
Finding Church Leadership in a New Era
Tod Bolsinger highlights that in an age of Christendom’s decline in the Western world, pastors are ill-equipped to lead through the...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 20, 20193 min read


Commencement Sermon: Life With God
I want to focus my reflection this evening on Jesus’ part in this exchange. Christians affirm God as all-knowing and, so, usually focus...

Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 18, 20195 min read
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