Homeward, these shoes worn to paper: thin as the reason I left here so young

• Why Rowan Williams is the only real theologian
  
• Why Benedict XVI is the only real theologian
• A new article by Cynthia Nielsen: "What Has Mozart to Do with Coltrane?"
• Some early reviews of Douglas Campbell's mighty tome, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul
  
• James K. A. Smith: is there room for martyrs in today's church?
• Jamie Smith again, on film, freedom and fearless speech
  
• Top 10 indispensable books on theology of childhood
• And some good resources on children's literature
• Some entertaining comments when Halden asked for nominations of a desert island novel. Just in case there's any uncertainty about this, let me state that Moby-Dick is definitely and unequivocally – without any competition to speak of – the greatest novel ever written. To anyone who disagrees, I say: "Ye hav'n't seen Old Thunder yet, have ye?"
  
• Read Rowan Williams' response to Rome
• Some heretical thoughts on pedagogy (also published here), with a follow-up here
  
• Some nice scholasticism: whether Jesus can be an "interest" on Facebook
• Why conservatives shouldn't make manifestos
  
• Three new books on Augustine
• And please, if you do nothing else next year, make sure you read Lewis Ayres' forthcoming book, Augustine and the Trinity
• A new dissertation on the holy fools
  
• Redeeming the Enlightenment: new histories of religion toleration
• A nice passage on Karl Barth's way of theologising
• Peter Leithart on Robert Jenson and time
  
• Report on a sweet film fest
• Literature review on interfaith relations
• An essay prize competition
  
• Applications are open for the Brill Fellowship
• The Centre of Theology and Philosophy has a new website