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Hayden Nesbit

Hayden Nesbit is an associate pastor at Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church.

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Hayden Nesbit

Hayden Nesbit is an associate pastor at Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church.

Hayden NesbitCulture

Crisis and Covenant

The concept of covenant offers a helpful way out of the narrative trap in which our culture is currently stuck.

Hayden NesbitCultureTechnology

Polishing Kernels: Bodily Control as New Gnosis

One of the unique sicknesses of our moment is that we regard ordinary signs of aging as a mark of failure, even a lack of love and care for oneself.

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

The Foolish Divine Order of the Church

Ours is a body with aches and pains, strains and breaks. Confession will painfully set our bones. Such is the foolish divine order of the body of Christ.

Hayden NesbitTheology

Embracing the God Who Bleeds

On Good Friday we remember the God who bleeds and who, in his death, calls us to join him in death so we might join him in his resurrection.

Hayden NesbitChurch

Evangelism in a World of Control and Aggression

Because of our world-muting acceleration, our evangelistic efforts would be wise to reawaken attentiveness to the created order.

Hayden NesbitTechnologyChurch

The Mad Farmer on Claude, AI, and the Church

The church is the community of contrariness in the world, not because it is anti-technology, but because it is pro-unpredictable mystery

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

Formed by Song: How Music Shapes the Christian Life

Throughout church history the great teachers of the faith have commended music to us as a vehicle for living the Christian life.

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

How the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments Ground Spiritual Formation and Soul Care

The Apostle's Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue can help us to understand both what we are and what we might become.

Hayden NesbitFormation

Soul Care in a Collapsed Age

The collapse of context, history, and even basic character depth all makes the task of soul care more difficult and complex.

Hayden NesbitBibleFormation

Resonance and the Psalms

The Psalms can offer a powerful window for helping us understand the shape of a good life in the world that does not seek to control the world.

Hayden NesbitTechnologyFormation

How to Resist the Acceleration, Aggression, and Illusion of the Internet

Our online lives bear a disturbing resemblance to the safe 'casket' C. S. Lewis warned us about, where our hearts would become loveless and invulnerable.