Your Gym Membership and the Grafton Line: Writing Groups as Method, Not Morale
Doctoral writing is hard to sustain alone, and the fix is social: a writing table, a public daily number, and permission to make imperfect progress.
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Browse page 3 of Adam DJ Brett's blog archive with posts on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and project updates.
Whose Land Do You Live On: Bruce Lincoln and the Method That Makes a Claim Answerable
Method is not a section you add at the end; it is the object, the operations, and the warrants that let another scholar repeat your work or argue with it.
The Only Way Out Is Through: Accelerationism as a Wager, Not a Speed
A plain account of what accelerationism claims, where the word came from, and why its vocabulary now runs through the fight over artificial intelligence.
Down in the Swampy Lowlands: What Counts as Best Practice
Why the knowledge competent professionals carry in their hands counts as evidence, and why the evidence pyramid cannot rank it.
The Landfill Keeps Working: Jane Bennett, Thing-Power, and a Theology of Lively Matter
Vital materialism treats food, metals, electricity, and waste as participants rather than props, and Christian creation theology has fewer objections than you might expect.
The Two Row Wampum as Theory and Method
How a 1613 treaty belt of quahog shell beads became a working research method about authority, consent, and the limits of what a scholar may know.
Is a Budget Spreadsheet Ministry: Luther’s Beruf, Volf’s Charisms, and the Divide That Came Back
How the sacred-secular divide reorganized itself inside the church’s own operations, and what the vocation tradition and its pneumatological critics do about it.
The Letter That Took Two Hours: Media, Focal Practices, and the Limits of AI-Mediated Formation
Every medium is a formation program, and the theological question about artificial intelligence is not whether it is good but what mediation does to persons.
Babel With Better Hardware: Christian Theologies of Technology and Artificial Intelligence
How Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox thinkers from Ellul and Guardini to Herzfeld and Waters have argued about what machines are for and what humans are.
From Consumer to Producer: What Changes When a Practitioner Starts Making Knowledge
On the shift from applying knowledge skilfully to producing it, why presenting your work to peers is not a hurdle, and what one finished project tells you about the next.
Twenty-Five Minutes Against the Whole Dissertation: The Pomodoro Method for Scholars
A pragmatic case for the tomato timer: writing is a sequence of small actions, and a bounded block of attention is how you stop treating it as one impossible task.
Three Pages Before the Day Arrives: Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way as Scholarly Method
Why a 1992 self-help book for blocked artists belongs in a researcher’s toolkit, and how morning pages, evening pages, and artist dates do methodological work.