Alex Sosler

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Alex Sosler is Assistant Professor of Bible and Ministry at Montreat College near Asheville, North Carolina. Prior to academia, served as a pastoral assistant at a church near Cleveland, Ohio, (his hometown) and as an associate pastor in Austin, Texas. Alex is married to Lauren and dad to Mariela, Auden, and Jude.

Recent Essays

The Nightstand

Ted Lasso as Parish Priest

Alex Sosler - February 3, 2021

Ted Lasso offers a compelling model of a good parish priest: this fictional football coach exemplifies how to lead others with care.

The Nightstand

Sacred Reality: The Augustinian Vision of Goodness in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

Alex Sosler - January 8, 2021

Robinson presents us with an encounter: a participatory, embodied experience; a blessed and broken reality; the sacraments. And from this encounter, we receive courageous eyes to see the precious things that have been placed in our hands and to honor them accordingly.

The Blackboard

The Instrumentalization of the Liberal Arts

Alex Sosler - November 4, 2020

The liberal arts aren’t for some utilitarian purpose; they’re to free young people to love rightly.

The Blackboard

Failing in a Pandemic

Alex Sosler - May 13, 2020

The whole mode of online education screams that now I must be the source of attraction. But I’m not entertaining. In fact, I’m pretty unentertaining. If you ask most of my students, they may even say I’m boring.

The Blackboard

The Classroom as a Welcoming Space

Alex Sosler - March 16, 2020

If we have all the knowledge in the world but have not love, the apostle Paul says, then we’re as annoying as a banging cymbal. It’s no wonder students wouldn’t want to listen to us.

The Wittenberg Door

Waiting, Seeing, and Receiving

Alex Sosler - December 27, 2019

Advent is a reminder that God has not forgotten—that He is faithful to His promises, that we're not left to our own devices, that he hears and knows.

The Barbershop

The Temptation of Minimalism and Excess: A Simple Home in an Abundant World

Alex Sosler - November 6, 2019

In the discussion of minimalism, I want to suggest it’s less about what’s in your home than what your home is used for. It’s not what you don’t have in your home, but the people you do. It’s not the values you say you believe, but your disposition towards your neighbor and to things.