My friend Paul Nimmo and I co-edited Kenosis: The Self-Emptying of Christ in Scripture and Theology in honor of Bruce McCormack's retirement from Princeton Theological Seminary. Here's the publisher's description: "In the “Christ-hymn” of Philippians 2, the apostle Paul makes a startling claim: that Jesus “emptied himself” in order to fulfill God’s will by dying on the cross. The self-emptying…
I received this award today, and I'm deeply grateful for it. My family, friends, and students know how important the vocation of teaching is to me. I am thankful every day for the opportunity to step into the classroom with my students. Teaching has been a deeply transformative experience for me. I have been wrestling with the challenges and perils…
Whenever I teach my undergraduate "Christian Ethics" course at Wheaton College, I assign Willie James Jennings' The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. It is a remarkable book, and over the years it has become the heart of the course. Jennings' argument is challenging on multiple levels. I tell my students that what Jennings is doing is like…