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31Oct 20263 Nov 2026

Salt & Light 2029, First Baptist Church Muncie: five practices of renewal. 1 Make Room, 2 Remember Forward, 3 One Clear Path, 4 All of Us, 5 Celebrate What God Counts. Matthew 5:13-14.

One Email To Rule Them All (At Least, For the Copy + Paste Tasks): More thoughts on limited AI use for “Ad-ministry”

“Should pastors use AI?” I get some truly awful emails advertising what appear to me to be large language model-assisted…

28Apr 202613 May 2026

Pentecost 2026 Family Update

Welcome to our Family Update Letter for 2026! Printable version available at bottom of this post. Click links under “contents”…

13Mar 202625 Jul 2026

A.I. That Doesn’t Steal Your Soul?

It was an hour drive from my friend Tyler’s house to the Ascent Summit this past week. We made that…

The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding… Stephen Holmes

The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding is best exemplified by the unusual Baptist use of the word ‘church’. There is no ‘Baptist church’ that is not a…

3 Things to Know About the Abercrombie Ruling- Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty- BJC

2 Jun 20152 Jun 2015

Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia said: Abercrombie’s argument that a neutral policy cannot constitute “intentional discrimination” may make sense in other contexts. But Title VII does not demand mere…

My alma mater featured my Fulbright grant award!

1 Jun 20152 Jun 2015

The feature includes all three Fulbright grant award recipients from Georgetown College: Collin Smith, Victoria Engelhardt, and me. All three of us are relatively recent alumni of the college. I…

Christ the rock: a sermon

25 Oct 201425 Oct 2014

I preached this sermon at the Nashville Regional Festival of Young Preachers at Belmont University On Friday October 24, 2014. Please look for the forthcoming video from the Academy of…

What are the biblical passages most ignored by both “skeptics” and “believers”?

22 Jul 201422 Jul 2014

Not too long ago, the popular Bible app YouVersion released quite a bit of data. Both Christianity Today and Religious news service took a look at the data. They found…

The importance of Baptism- on Theologues

10 Jul 201410 Jul 2014

Hey y'all. I've was invited by some friends to write a few articles at Theologues: a site which focuses on Christ, His Church, tradition, and theology. In that vein, I wrote two…

“EATING REVERENTLY”, Nikaela Marie Peters

The world’s largest religion began with a meal. There was a large enough room for the people invited. There was a jug of water. There were bowls and loaves of…

“Improvising in the key of gospel” -Steve R. Holmes

10 Nov 201315 Feb 2016

In music – these days, particularly in jazz, but the cadenza of a concerto used to work the same way – improvisation is a fascinating art. Good improvisation is profoundly…

I cannot prove God

8 Nov 201310 Jul 2014

This article was originally printed as my op-ed in my college student-run newspaper The Georgetonian, November 7th, 2013 Last weekend I attended the Center for Faith & Learning’s philosophy conference “Kierkegaard:…

Concerning "Habitually Being"

What’s in a name, bro?

22 Jul 201324 Jul 2013

Welcome to "Habitually Being" a personal library of my collected thoughts, whether the most original musings I can muster or ones simply and unapologetically thieved. Expect to find here my…