Craig
@craigkeen.bsky.social
I am a retired professor of theology and philosophy. Though I taught for 38 years at self-consciously "Evangelical" universities, I do not embrace the E-word. My work is rather in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition.
My favorite movie is *Cool Hand Luke*.
My favorite movie is *Cool Hand Luke*.
This is partly why I've been crying out against Don John the Bastard Prince since his PR stunt entry into the GOP primary in 2016. He is the incarnation of the spirit of hatred that became so evident after 9/11.
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March 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This is partly why I've been crying out against Don John the Bastard Prince since his PR stunt entry into the GOP primary in 2016. He is the incarnation of the spirit of hatred that became so evident after 9/11.
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I keep forgetting that I'm a member of this thing.
February 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I keep forgetting that I'm a member of this thing.
Advent is problematic in part because it waits enthralled by a Christmas that assumes that the incarnation of God as the peasant Jesus occurred on a calendar day. And yet, God was not born as a Galilean baby until the chronologically ambiguous Easter morning, and then only as a crucified malefactor.
December 3, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Advent is problematic in part because it waits enthralled by a Christmas that assumes that the incarnation of God as the peasant Jesus occurred on a calendar day. And yet, God was not born as a Galilean baby until the chronologically ambiguous Easter morning, and then only as a crucified malefactor.
Bonhoeffer has just summarized everything I’ve been trying to say about metanoia: Metanoia is “not in the first place thinking about one’s own needs, problems, sins, and fears, but allowing oneself to be caught up into the way of Jesus Christ, into the messianic event, this fulfilling Isa. 53.”
November 29, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Bonhoeffer has just summarized everything I’ve been trying to say about metanoia: Metanoia is “not in the first place thinking about one’s own needs, problems, sins, and fears, but allowing oneself to be caught up into the way of Jesus Christ, into the messianic event, this fulfilling Isa. 53.”
Matt Gaetz looks like an abomination that emerged from the stain on the mattress after an ugly threesome between Jack Nicholson, Richard Nixon, and that guy from Full Metal Jacket who killed his drill sergeant.
November 22, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Matt Gaetz looks like an abomination that emerged from the stain on the mattress after an ugly threesome between Jack Nicholson, Richard Nixon, and that guy from Full Metal Jacket who killed his drill sergeant.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His time was unique, of course, but today I have no trouble understanding him.
November 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His time was unique, of course, but today I have no trouble understanding him.
Sometimes I feel like a minor character in a John le Carré novel.
November 21, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Sometimes I feel like a minor character in a John le Carré novel.
When is a photo an act of resistance?
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November 19, 2024 at 11:21 PM
8. Never trust someone making "scientific claims" in order to prop up a profoundly questionable ideology.
November 19, 2024 at 10:33 PM
8. Never trust someone making "scientific claims" in order to prop up a profoundly questionable ideology.
6. The gospel begins by declaring that in Christ there is not male and female (thus at *relativizing* Genesis 1).
7. The gospel calls us to love the people we meet and come more and more to understand, not tell them that they have some condition to meet before we take them seriously.
7. The gospel calls us to love the people we meet and come more and more to understand, not tell them that they have some condition to meet before we take them seriously.
November 19, 2024 at 10:33 PM
6. The gospel begins by declaring that in Christ there is not male and female (thus at *relativizing* Genesis 1).
7. The gospel calls us to love the people we meet and come more and more to understand, not tell them that they have some condition to meet before we take them seriously.
7. The gospel calls us to love the people we meet and come more and more to understand, not tell them that they have some condition to meet before we take them seriously.
4. Geneticists are still trying to understand how a concrete human, standing right there in front of them, is to be understood in terms of their genes.
5. It is a nervous modernity, out to control its world, that has rigidified gender.
5. It is a nervous modernity, out to control its world, that has rigidified gender.
November 19, 2024 at 10:33 PM
4. Geneticists are still trying to understand how a concrete human, standing right there in front of them, is to be understood in terms of their genes.
5. It is a nervous modernity, out to control its world, that has rigidified gender.
5. It is a nervous modernity, out to control its world, that has rigidified gender.
1. Gender is not simply a matter of genetics.
2. Geneticists recognize that gender is not binary, simply male vs. female.
3. Gestation is a complex process in which chemical effects on genetic operations are profound.
2. Geneticists recognize that gender is not binary, simply male vs. female.
3. Gestation is a complex process in which chemical effects on genetic operations are profound.
November 19, 2024 at 10:32 PM
1. Gender is not simply a matter of genetics.
2. Geneticists recognize that gender is not binary, simply male vs. female.
3. Gestation is a complex process in which chemical effects on genetic operations are profound.
2. Geneticists recognize that gender is not binary, simply male vs. female.
3. Gestation is a complex process in which chemical effects on genetic operations are profound.
November 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM
"I'm tired, tired." Paul Simon
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barach Obama
Don John the Bastard Prince
Joe Biden
Don John the Bastard Prince
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barach Obama
Don John the Bastard Prince
Joe Biden
Don John the Bastard Prince
November 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
"I'm tired, tired." Paul Simon
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barach Obama
Don John the Bastard Prince
Joe Biden
Don John the Bastard Prince
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barach Obama
Don John the Bastard Prince
Joe Biden
Don John the Bastard Prince
Christian nationalism: Where dispensationalism acquires a cache of high tech assault weapons.
November 17, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Christian nationalism: Where dispensationalism acquires a cache of high tech assault weapons.
I never seriously posted on Twitter/X. Staying within 300 characters is going to be a challenge. Perhaps I can save my longer posts for FB and do one-liners here.
November 17, 2024 at 7:33 PM
I never seriously posted on Twitter/X. Staying within 300 characters is going to be a challenge. Perhaps I can save my longer posts for FB and do one-liners here.
If you liked the caging and separation of children from their migrating parents at America's southern border early in the first term of Don John the Bastard Prince, you're going to love Tom Homan as "Border Czar."
November 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
If you liked the caging and separation of children from their migrating parents at America's southern border early in the first term of Don John the Bastard Prince, you're going to love Tom Homan as "Border Czar."
I think if I had to have a nom de plume, it’d be Bob Voyage.
November 16, 2024 at 3:48 AM
I think if I had to have a nom de plume, it’d be Bob Voyage.
6. He's here because America is extremely screwed up and voting is a farce.
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 AM
6. He's here because America is extremely screwed up and voting is a farce.
5. "Voters" are not what they are cracked up to be and the mythology that clings to voting is not particularly perspicacious. President #47 is a hurricane, a flurry of tornadoes, an earthquake, wildfires, and a collision with an asteroid.
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 AM
5. "Voters" are not what they are cracked up to be and the mythology that clings to voting is not particularly perspicacious. President #47 is a hurricane, a flurry of tornadoes, an earthquake, wildfires, and a collision with an asteroid.
4. I believe that the havoc Don John will wreak in the next four years will be horrific, especially for the most vulnerable people in this land. However, I don't believe that voters are to be blamed.
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 AM
4. I believe that the havoc Don John will wreak in the next four years will be horrific, especially for the most vulnerable people in this land. However, I don't believe that voters are to be blamed.