HeyJaredEpistles from Babylon
Letters between two earnest Christians seeking to remain faithful to the Way of Jesus while living in Babylon.
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Theology from the Hollers (opens the original)
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Dear Greg, I rarely get sad when I hear about celebrity deaths, but the news of both Wendell Berry and Dolly Parton hit me in the gut. They are two people I admire a great deal because they brought the world a theology from the hollers, a theology that we desperately need right now. A few years ago I was fortunate to publish a chapter on Rural Ethics in the Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics in which I a
In Praise of Local, Quiet Living (opens the original)
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Dear Justin,These have been busy days for us both as the new school year kicks into full gear! I am now settled in once again at my school in Shanghai, and am enjoying the daily sights and sounds of the city… grandmothers biking with grandkids in tow, elderly men stretching in sync in the local park, sellers hawking their wares, and the constant honking of horns as thirty million people scramble for their daily bread. There is something strangely comforting in seeing my Chinese co-teacher greet
What Is Education For? (opens the original)
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Dear Justin,Your last letter has given me a lot to think about, and I’m very sympathetic to your argument at many key points. As educators and as theologians, it seems incumbent upon us to be wrestling with these complex issues, and I’m grateful you’ve invited voices like Aquinas and Paul Griffiths into the fray.As a child of the Western Enlightenment tradition (which, of course, is a mixed bag at best), I still find myself resisting the claim that “curiosity” simpliciter is a vice, largely beca
AI Wrote This Letter (opens the original)
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*(A note to readers, including Greg. The first letter here was written by AI, specifically Gemini, since Substack recently made a good decision to show estimated percentages of each post that was written by AI. The second letter was written by me, although I used AI as a “conversation partner,” which has its own problems, and might also be curiosity at play. Nonetheless, it is written in my words with my ideas based on my study of Aquinas and others. I hope this exercise teaches all of us someth
The Odyssey and the Gospel (opens the original)
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(Spoiler Alert: This letter rather vaguely discusses a few plot points from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. If you haven’t seen the film yet, read at your own risk.)Dear Justin,Right now Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is rightly being celebrated for its stunning visuals and epic scope, but after seeing the film last weekend with my daughters I left t… Read more
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