Jesse James DeConto
Blog Posts by Jesse James DeConto
Posted by Jesse James DeConto 14 weeks 4 days ago
I read a lot of Trinitarian theology last semester at Duke Divinity school, most of it trying to discern how believing in a Triune God might affect the way people of different religious faiths relate...
Posted by Jesse James DeConto 15 weeks 5 days ago
This past year, I’ve been working out of my house, something like a stay-at-home dad, what with the after-school hours and school holidays and such. All day, everyday – or at least whenever I get up...
Posted by Jesse James DeConto 18 weeks 21 hours ago
Lent is a time when we try to identify with our own weakness, so since we are about to start the Church’s penitent season, it was shocking to read Virgilio Elizondo’s account of how a...
Posted by Jesse James DeConto 19 weeks 1 day ago
I wonder if God reads the Bible. I mean, what we’re trying to do when we read the text is to understand it the way God understands it, right? I grew up in fundamentalist churches where biblical...
Posted by Jesse James DeConto 23 weeks 19 hours ago
Almost two years ago, I took a titanic risk. If you look at things from an earthbound perspective, what I did is: I took my livelihood, and my children's provision, in my hands alone. I quit my job...
