The Giller Prize, the biggest literary prize in Canada, announced its longlist on September 8. Over the past couple years, it has become the most reliable of the major prize lists for pointing me to amazing books. So in today's deep dive, I'll look at my impressions of the list ten days in. But first, … Continue reading Culture Roundup (September 19, 2026): Early Thoughts on the Giller Prize Longlist
It’s an ongoing tradition here on the blog to spend the time regrouping between long series looking at what I call ‘Wisdom IN Literature,’ the ways novels I’ve read interact with themes of faith, personal growth, and other big issues of human experience. Of the novels I’ve read so far in 2026, none has been … Continue reading Wisdom IN Literature: Floodlines on Reclaiming the Past
With today’s post, our long and winding road through Romans comes to an end. It’s time to look back the journey and pull together some final thoughts. At the start of the series, I expressed some uncertainty about the situation into which Paul was writing. While I came in thinking he was writing to a … Continue reading Our Common Cause: Final Thoughts on Romans
Now that we’ve wrapped up these last sections of Paul’s Letter to the Romans, it’s time for our final targum, which is an explanatory paraphrase of the text. For the earlier targums, see: 1.1-17 1.18-3.20 3.21-5.11 5.12-8.39 9-11 — [12.1-2] I exhort you therefore, my siblings in Christ, on the basis of God’s compassion, to … Continue reading Life in the Spirit: A Targum on Romans 12-16
After his instructions on community life, Paul wraps up the paraenetic section of his letter to the assemblies of Rome by connecting the unity of Jewish and Gentile Christ-followers, which has been one of the letter’s major themes, with his hoped-for mission to Spain. Text [Today I’ll provide a summary of this text, which contains … Continue reading Paul’s Final Thoughts: Romans 15.7-16.33
