Welcome! I’m Scott Postma and this is my blog. I write about faith, culture, and creativity.
Because ideas have consequences and the truth of matters is best conceived in dialectic, I invite you to engage in the conversation.
Featuring prominently here is the recovery of a Christian humanism for our day and I imagine the work shaping up to be rather trinitarian in scope.
First, as it involves faith, I work out of a Christian theology that is irenic in temperament, instead of the polemic disposition that so frequently characterizes both our world and many of our Christian traditions. To this end, Thomas Oden’s three-volume Systematic Theology has captured my imagination as he worked to elucidate for modern Christians the ancient wisdom of historical Christianity and the doctrinal agreements still shared amongst the various Christian traditions.
Next, as it involves culture, I begin with the premise that Christianity has an unprecedented claim on the cultural questions that affect human flourishing. Therefore, I am attempting to treat all cultural issues from a vision that transcends the competing naturalistic worldviews that have brought so much woe to humanity in the modern age.
Finally, believing humans are created imago dei, thus sub-creators, and further recognizing those in Christ are a product of his workmanship (Gr., poiema) created to do good works, I am compelled to explore the creative impulse that is innate in human beings. The question, however, is discovering what constitutes good works and what does that look like in our present age.
Perhaps this all sounds a little grandiose. Maybe it is. But what I hope it is not is egoistic, a means towards my own vainglory. I hope the work that I share here is edifying for those who read it, and one day shapes up to be the seedlings of material worthy of publication.
As for me, I’m a writer, teacher and bibliophile living in the chimney of Idaho with my bride of more than 30 years. We have four grown children and six grandchildren whom we adore.
In addition to blogging here, I practice the ancient art of Tsundoku, edit The Consortium: A Journal of Classical Christian Education, serve as the President and CEO of Kepler Education, and lead the Poiema Reading Society.
Because of my other work, I am present on social media. But for a number of reasons, I strive to limit my engagement mostly to Instagram and LinkedIn.
I earned a doctorate in humane letters with an emphasis in literature (Ph.D., Faulkner University), a master’s degree in Christian and classical studies (M.A., Knox Theological Seminary), and my undergrad work was in religion and literature (B. S., Liberty University), and creative writing (A.A., College of Southern Nevada).
I have now spent nearly 30 years in Christian education and twenty of those years in pastoral ministry. Prior to that, I did a four-year stint in the Air Force at the close of the Cold War Era and during Operations Just Cause and Desert Shield.
You can download my full CV here.
As I’ve now shared a little about me, I am reminded how C.S. Lewis once said, “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
So, if you’re the kind of person who enjoys reading good books—especially with a pipe in your teeth and pencil in your hand—wants to cultivate the life of your mind and pursue all that is good, true, and beautiful, then I hope you’ll consider yourself among friends.
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