Josiah Hoi's Blog

This is a new series of posts that functions as an appendix to the hermeneutics class that I’ve been teaching at CrossLife. One of the challenges that I’ve faced teaching a lay-level hermeneutics class is transposing what seminary-level hermeneutics and Greek/Hebrew exegesis into something that is both faithful to the…

I recently re-read Radhika Nagpal’s 2013 article in Scientific American, The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life. I read it a couple of years ago when I was just starting out CRNA school, and when a theology degree was just a…

Hi, Welcome to the restarting of my weekly updates. I did a series of these on my Substack a few years ago, where I just noted what I had been reading for the past week, along with a brief review of the book/article. It’s always difficult to be consistent with…

The Prophets and Their Perspective by Randall E. Otto. I got into a discussion with Pastor James on the relationship between Ezekiel 40-48 and John 21-22, especially in light of his view on the millennium temple. Why does John pick up the language of Ezekiel’s new temple (trees, river, fruit…

Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon. I’ve been flirting with the idea of reviving my blog for the past couple months. This is the book that convinced me to start again, not to share my “big ideas” and musings, but to primarily show all the work that goes into reading…