On obedience, attention, and freedom
It’s snowing, a lot, everywhere, so this morning I was reading Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century German mystic (obviously). In the first installment...
Tag: theology
systems of ultimate concern
Applying the compassionate infrastructure (New Year’s reboot)
And we’re back. When I first started this blog in September I had pretty grand designs for what and how I was going to write here. Looking back, I think m...
On prepping for the first day of school
This week and next, I start at my new job at a progressive school in Manhattan, teaching middle and high school math. This is my fourth school setting, right on...
On religion in the news, the Republican debate, and reading ‘Fun Home’ at Duke
I will write about religion in the news. There are two good reasons to do this: The way some religious people make news misrepresents what it looks like to do s...
Dharma Combat with Augustine
On the meaning of the teaching of St. Augustine of Hippo, addressing God in the first paragraph of his Confessions: You have made us for yourself, and our ...
On a secular theology
Much of what I write on this blog will be notes toward a secular theology. The fact that I write as a “Theological Engineer” might already suggest t...
On systems
Systems are scientific constructs, but I’ll often be talking about them in terms of social justice and theology. I’ll connect them here. A system is...
About the Theological Engineer
I’m a math-teacher theologian Zen-Buddhist New-Yorker. I have studied and practiced engineering, education, theology, depth psychology, and all of the abo...