Elegantly Dishevelled

Yep.

THE Ohio State.

Spiritual Formation and Artificial Intelligence The problems with using AI to shortcut ministry education and formation.

I’m rarely on BlueSky, but figured this might be worth sharing with those who follow me and may be interested in questions about spiritual formation and artificial intelligence. au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/spir...

News to me. I’m hardly ever on this app. 😅

Be like Travis Williams and get a copy of my book, “Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter”.
(Debonair hairstyling not included.)
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Be like Travis Williams and get a copy of my book, “Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter”.
(Debonair hairstyling not included.)
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Nice feeling!

Rough!

It’s been a fun evening! Thanks. 🙂

Thank you, Emily! Merry Xmas to you and yours, and congrats on your own recent award for your work. 🎉🎉😄

Now it feels real. Physical copies in hand. 😍

Excellent!

Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter "Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter" published on 13 Nov 2023 by Brill.

Well, there you go. It is finished.
E-book available as of yesterday. brill.com/display/titl...

Preview #8: The Consummation of the Calling—1 Peter 5:6–14 A sample from ch. 8 of Narrative, Calling & Missional Identity in 1 Peter (pp. 192–96)

Another preview from my monograph, out this Thursday with Brill. open.substack.com/pub/elegantl...

Preview #7: The Commitment of the Calling—1 Peter 3:8–17 A sample from ch. 7 of Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter (pp. 162–64)

The use of Psalm 33 LXX [shows that] like David, the Anatolian churches live btwn promise & inheritance. David’s sojourns btwn the promise of the kingdom & its inheritance typologically align w/ the Anatolian church’s own experience under the new covenant. open.substack.com/pub/elegantl...

Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter "Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter" published on 16 Nov 2023 by Brill.

HOOLY-DOOLY!: publication date has been brought forward 2 weeks. *Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter: Between Promise and Inheritance* is out this Thursday!: brill.com/display/titl...

Sounds excellent.

Or the Christian life in general?

Care to share in a DM at that other site?

Uh oh.

Latest whisky acquisition. Tasted at a festival last weekend. Easily the most interesting thing that was served. (Not necessarily the best thing we tasted, but easily the most *interesting*)

So strange!

The Consequences of the Calling—1 Peter 2:18–25 A sample from ch. 6 of Narrative, Calling and Missional Identity (pp 119–23; releasing 30 Nov)

Another week; another "Wednesday in 1 Peter". Only 3 weeks until "NCMID" is released.
"the οἰκέται [slaves] are elevated as exemplars w/in the community, b/c it is they who most closely embody the prototypical characteristics defined in Christ (2:22–24)." open.substack.com/pub/elegantl...

The Commission of the Calling A sample from ch. 5 of Narrative, Calling and Missional Identity (pp. 99–102; releasing 30 Nov)

“although Jesus is presented as the Living Stone, he exists in a paradoxical and perpetual state of rejection and ‘chosenness’. He is rejected by men but, at the same time, chosen (ἐκλεκτόν) and precious.” So too those who follow him. open.substack.com/pub/elegantl...

I may we’ll leave at the end of the year. I’ll promote the book and once it’s out may move fully to Substack. It’s startling how little interaction I get on Twitter since EM took over.

If you DM me on Twitter I’ll send you a pre-pub PDF (there will be notes and a few errors but the content will be near identical down to the page numbers).

That would be nice. 🙂

Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter "Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter" published on 30 Nov 2023 by Brill.

One month to go until the perfect stocking filler is on the shelf. brill.com/display/titl...

ICYMI: “a believer cannot be a ‘child of obedience’ without first turning from the ‘passions of [their] former ignorance’. Only then may they be considered holy, like the Holy One who called them.” Pt 4 in my ongoing series previewing my forthcoming monograph.

The Character of the Calling A sample from ch. 3 of Narrative, Calling and Missional Identity (releasing 30 Nov)

Here's part 4 in my ongoing series of previews from my forthcoming monograph. Here I dive into the idea of "children of obedience" according to 1 Pet 1:14. open.substack.com/pub/elegantl...