Casey Spinks

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Casey Spinks is a Ph.D. student in the religion department at Baylor University. A native of Baton Rouge, he earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy and religious studies at Louisiana State University. His academic work has appeared in the book Taking Kierkegaard Personally and the journals International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy & Theology and Perspectives in Religious Studies. And he has written essays for The Imaginative Conservative, Christianity Today, and VoegelinView. He is also an avid birder and occasional carpenter.

Recent Essays

Weird Christianity’s Aesthetic and the Tyranny of Values

Casey Spinks - May 18, 2020

So long as old Christianity is treated as an aesthetic or an alternative lifestyle or a set of values contending against alienated modernity, it will never be anything more than a therapeutic commodity. But if we allow it to reckon with us, we may find ourselves snared in the grasp of “something real.”

The Knight of Faith: Franz Jägerstätter’s Hidden Life

Casey Spinks - January 10, 2020

In the midst of whatever trials come to us and whatever revelations do not, we are still called to serve, to do good, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. And to believe in the voice that may not choose to speak to us, to hold fast to the goodness given to our beloved but unseen by everyone else—that is the vocation of faith for many of us.

Casey Spinks

Recent Essays

Weird Christianity’s Aesthetic and the Tyranny of Values

The Knight of Faith: Franz Jägerstätter’s Hidden Life

Hannah Arendt on Labor, Work, and Dwelling—and Plastic Straws

Why Heidegger Stayed in the Provinces—and Why it is Not Time for the ‘Robert Penn Warren Option’

The Local Bonhoeffer

A Tale of Two Tragedies

Captioning Over our Grief