Can’t wait to be in Singapore in a couple weeks. I might even be more excited about the food than about giving these lectures, but so very much looking forward to both. If you’re in SG or nearby hit me up.

What would it mean to take Jubilee seriously—not just as a historical curiosity, but as a challenge to how we understand justice, grace, and obligation? I explore these tensions in my forthcoming book Sacred Debt. Sign up on my mailing list for updates and to be notified when it's out.

Redemption follows the principle of repayment; Jubilee, the principle of cancellation.

Christian theology has long emphasized salvation as redemption—sin as a debt to be repaid. Yet the Bible also offers another vision: Jubilee, where debts are not settled but erased. While both metaphors appear in scripture, they operate on different logics.