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Responsible Imagination
Exploring what it means to remain human in the Polycene age.
Responsible Imagination explores what it means to remain human in the Polycene age through analysis and imagination. It finds expression in essays, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction—different facets of a single vocation, each illuminating dimensions that no single genre can fully disclose. Together they ask how finite creatures can live responsibly amid the accelerating powers and overlapping crises of our age.
Recent Books
Encountering Scripture through poetry, wonder, and faithful imagination.
Poetry
"Some years ago, the volcanic Walter Brueggemann wrote Finally Comes the Poet, a book that urged preachers to attend to their literary imaginations as much as to their linguistic and exegetical skills. . . . Here, a poet has indeed finally come."
John C. Holbert, Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics Emeritus, Perkins School of Theology
Listening for what remains human in the Polycene age.
Poetry
Recovering responsibility in an age of artificial intelligence.
Nonfiction
Discovering wonder and responsibility in ordinary life.
Poetry
Recent Writing
"Ellul’s Prescience and the Unfinished Task of Responsibility
in an Age of AI"
The Ellul Forum (#76 Spring 2026)
Essay
The Write Launch (#103, January 2026)
Poetry
Night at the Crest (excerpt)
Who knew there are skies like this?
No suburban canopy of speckled dark
that signals “night,” this teeming sky,
full of being, full of light.
Light not to see with
but to be seen,
to be witnessed.
to be paid homage to,
conversed with,
plotted with.
Vision, not sight.