Humanity
Modesty Reconsidered: Why Evangelicals Need a Robust Theology of the Body
While the problems of the evangelical Purity Movement have been well documented, one of its biggest errors was promoting a non-theological account of modesty focused almost exclusively on behaviors. With few exceptions, modesty was largely cast as the responsibility of women to avoid certain dress code […]
Going Upstream of Streaming Worship: Embracing Creaturely Limits in an Age of Autonomy and Disembodiment
Online worship. Zoom church. Streaming services on Facebook Live (if you can get it to actually work). We’re all used to this strange new world by now. But it can get stranger […]
Something Beautiful: Blessed with Bodies—and Technology
A crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Prov. 17:22) He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree. (1 Pet. 2:24) Technology’s triumph over space, its power to entertain and distract, its promise of enabling us to construct not only our own virtual identities but our own realities […]
The Material Is Not Immaterial
If there were a silver lining to the dark cloud of the recent COVID-19 restrictions, it would be that we were compelled to think about our bodies: what to put on them, what to put in them, how proximate to other bodies to place them. […]
Being Human at the Intersection of Embodiment and Technology: An Interview with Jens Zimmermann
An interview with Jens Zimmermann, the J. I. Packer Professor of Theology and director of the Houston Centre for Humanity and the Common Good at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. […]
