Jesse Hake

1 week ago | copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake

As the oldest of nine children in a close family that lost our mother too soon to breast cancer, I have traveled the most far afield theologically from the conservative American Presbyterianism in which we were most lovingly raised by wise and caring parents. Specifically, my wife, three children and I all joined the Orthodox church on Sunday, November 26, 2017. I lost my mother a year later on Wednesday, November 21, 2018.

4 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Katherine A. Shaner |Mac Loftin |Isaac S. Villegas |Jesse Hake

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Revelation can be a terrifying book of the Bible to encounter in the Easter season. We usually think about it as a doom and gloom kind of book. That is until a child, bleating like a sheep, reminds us what it is all about.

1 month ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Isaac S. Villegas |Jesse Hake |Cait West

The card holders on the long dining room table offered guidance to the women assembled around it: “Keep it Constitutional” and “Keep it Kind.” With those themes in mind, about 10 women, using beige or light blue fabric pieces and colorful markers, sat down to craft messages to their state representative or senator: “Checks and balances are vital to protect the power of Congress.” “We the People” “Rule of law for all” “Everyone deserves due process” Their 10×10 fabric pieces were later...

1 month ago | copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake

As part of my work with Classical Academic Press, I will be participating on a panel for a live webinar entitled “Animals, Arts, & Archenland” on April 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM (Eastern time).

1 month ago | copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake

Two announcements here, my dear readers:I contributed “Chapter 4: God’s Sparrows and Our Resurrection: Animals in the Restoration of All Things” to this book that has just gone on sale today. My chapter engages with the thought of the Apostle Paul, church fathers, C. S. Lewis and many others on the topic of animals in the kingdom of God. I was invited by The Russell Kirk Center to review Andrew Kern’s book Unless the Lord Builds the House: Shared Foundations for Christian Education.