Blog Posts

  • Europe Trip: Day Eight (Rome)

    Yesterday was just exhausting, and today was similarly exhausting but in a different way. Yesterday morning, Kristen and I said goodbye to Santorini and all of the fantastic views, memories, and food we enjoyed while there. We took a flight – which got delayed – to Athens, Greece, where we stayed for five hours before

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  • Europe Trip: Day Six (Oia Pt. 2)

    We had the most relaxing day, but we sweat like dogs. Our tentative schedule for today consisted of revisiting the antique shop in which we found the icons, surveying all of the local blue-domed churches in the area, and broadening our Greek cuisine options. Last night I had planned on doing a short-length run through

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  • Europe Trip: Day Five (Oia)

    “Wow, just wow. I have no words.” Such was our reaction as Kristen and I ascended the mountainous, rocky slope on our way to Oia (Ee-yah). As our Uber driver Christos (“Christ” in Greek) drove us up towards Oia, we looked to the left of the car down the hundreds of feet of beautiful white,

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  • Europe Trip: Day Four (Kamari)

    Today marked Kristen’s and my first full day in Kamari, Santorini. As I wrote yesterday, today was a recuperative day where we swam, ate, and rested. Other than the daily rundown, there is not much to report other than to say that our Greek breakfast this morning was possibly the best meal I had ever

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  • Europe Trip: Day Three (England-Santorini, Greece)

    Kristen and I flew to Santorini, Greece today by British Airways. We checked in to our Airbnb/hotel in Santorini after a fun Uber drive from the airport – the driver could hardly speak English and played Greek trap music the entire time. We decided to spend the end of our relatively smooth day by walking

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  • Europe Trip: Day Two (Oxford)

    Today Kristen and I strolled half an hour from our Airbnb over to a coffee house near the nearby train station. We began the day by – similar to yesterday – sipping, murmuring to each other our excitements for the day, and reading. My journal entry: “What a legendary day yesterday was! And how legendary

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  • Europe Trip: Day One (London)

    My wife Kristen and I are on an eleven day Europe trip across London, Santorini, and Rome. Today marked our first full day in London, and we jam packed it full of everything our capacities allowed. My journal entry this morning: “Sitting in an Italian cafe right by the Thames, before heading over to the

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  • Dionysius the Areopagite on the Most Holy Trinity

    – St. Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as “Pseudo-Dionysius” in more scholarly circles due to the fact that he was almost definitely not the Dionysius mentioned in Scripture as the disciple of the Apostle Paul, is a Christian theologian who garnered massive subsequent theological influence in both Western and Eastern theology. His treatise On the

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  • Maximus the Confessor on The Lord’s Prayer

    – Maximus the Confessor’s commentary on the Lord’s Prayer is a short, edifying, worshipful read. The preeminent eastern theologian’s interaction with what is going on theo-logically in the words of The Lord’s Prayer is illuminating of the pre-Modern outlook concerning the Son’s salvific incarnation and our subsequent participation in the Trinity’s life. He writes, “Indeed

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  • Eberhard Jüngel on Theology, Language, and God

    I recently purchased John Webster’s Eberhard Jüngel: An Introduction to his Theology, and have been wildly pleased with what I have found and read there. Amidst my daily perusing of the best anthology of Barth’s work in English today – The Essential Karl Barth by Keith Johnson – I find that reading Webster’s intro on

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