Ben Myers (@_BenMyers_)

Thread. Last year my grandmother went viral on Twitter when I shared the reading list that she had kept for 80 years. Her funeral was on Monday. When she died, she left me a bundle of old diaries <span class="quote-card" data-quote-index="0"></span>...

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. -Virginia Woolf...

Sin and crime. It’s quite a perplexing topic. For example: some of the worst sins are not crimes; some of the worst crimes are not sins; some of the worst contemporary sins+crimes were neither sins nor crimes in other periods of history...

For a paper I'm writing on theological anthropology, I'm trying to show how Christian thinking about salvation entails certain commitments about the human person. The question I'm trying to answer is: What conditions does soteriology impose on anthropology?...