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Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2023

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By Justin Bailey In Articles & Essays

In gratitude for Tim Keller (1950-2023)

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Confessional

Twenty Twenty Two: Year-end review & reflections

And just like that we come to the end of another calendar year. Here are some snapshots, highlights, and reflections from the year of teaching, scholarship, ministry, and family life. Teaching at Dordt I taught five courses this year: Biblical Foundations, Aesthetics, Ethics, Leadership &…

Justin BaileyDecember 16, 2022

Books Lists

Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2022

This is the week where people and places publish their list of the best books, "the books most likely to shape life, thought, and culture," as one list puts it. Despite having no reasonable expectation to be considered, it still bothers me way more than…

Justin BaileyDecember 14, 2022

Uncategorized

Summer Report: Where I’ve been…

A baseball game (White Sox vs Twins) with my friend Matt - great seats! One of the very best things about working in higher education is getting to follow the rhythms of the academic calendar. In between the spring and fall semester is this three…

Justin BaileyAugust 12, 2022

Confessional

Twenty Twenty One: Year-end reflections

I've decided to try to take the last two weeks of the year off from my to do lists – and hopefully away from the Internet as much as possible – so I'm writing my year end reflections a bit early. Here are some snapshots,…

Justin BaileyDecember 17, 2021

Books Lists

Bailey’s Book Awards: My Favorite Reads from 2021

Every year I set a goal to read 60 books (for class, for research, and for pleasure). Having just crossed the finish line, I’ve been reflecting on my year of reading. This means lamenting the lack of fiction (only 10) and poetry (0!) and making…

Justin BaileyDecember 15, 2021

Books Confessional

“Maybe It’s Enough”: Reimagining Apologetics Turns One

I finally got to see Reimagining Apologetics at the American Academy of Religion conference! I had planned to write this two months ago, when Reimagining Apologetics turned a year old (e.g., one year after its release date). I felt that inner call to write, along…

Justin BaileyDecember 2, 2021

Articles & Essays

The Body in Cyberspace: Lanier, Merleau-Ponty, and the Norms of Embodiment

The burden of this essay is to argue that while cyberspace technologies do open up profound new possibilities for imagining and inhabiting the world, there is a creational limitation to the human imagination: our bodies. Justin Bailey argues that personhood is always grounded in and governed by…

Justin BaileyApril 15, 2016

1 Samuel OT Narrative Sermons

“The Weight of Glory” – 1 Samuel 4

New beginnings often mean facing up to some painful realities about the way that things have been. Weeds and thorns must be exposed and cleared away before new life that has been planted can begin to grow. The new and shocking thing that God promised…

Justin BaileyApril 13, 2016

Book Reviews Christian Witness & Apologetics

Apologetics after Lindbeck (Book Review)

Jeremiah Gibbs begins Apologetics after Lindbeck with a trope that has become commonplace in contemporary accounts of apologetics: an apology for the discipline itself. He is primarily concerned with the challenge posed by the post-liberal program represented by George Lindbeck. Post-liberal theology, Gibbs writes, rejects…

Justin BaileyMarch 15, 2016

Sermons

A Snapshot of My Sermon-Writing Process

A few people have asked about my weekly process for sermon preparation, so I thought I would share. I budget 8-10 hours during the week for prep. In the early days of preaching, it usually took twice that. On Tuesdays, I budget 3-4 hours for…

Justin BaileyMarch 1, 2016

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Twenty Twenty Three: Year-end review & reflections