BARTHOLOMUSINGS

Hello.

You’ve reached Nathan Mladin‘s provisional blog (until he gets his own domain and a proper site).

Enough with the third person: I’m a Romanian Londoner, food lover, bread artisan, writer and speaker.

I’m also a senior researcher at Theos think tank (London) and a visiting lecturer in ethics at St Mellitus (also London).

My research, speaking and writing straddle public theology, ethics (with a focus on technology), and faith and culture more generally.

My background is in systematic theology but I’ve always seen myself more of a generalist. I’m striving for integrated, theologically-informed, and praxis-oriented thinking in service of human flourishing. I also know that’s borderline pretentious and a mouthful. But there we are.

See below some of my writing. Get in touch to lovingly affirm, correct, and educate me.

Contact

natan.mladin@gmail.com
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  • The human body today: between care and contempt

    A lightly edited version of a talk I gave at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, Choral Evensong, on Sunday 22nd October 2023. Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash. The human body. I’m sure you’ve noticed, we all have one. We’re in a complicated relationship with it, individually and culturally. If I were to summarise what…

  • Too brief thoughts on faith and economics

    [I’m in the process of expanding each of these bits below into something that will hopefully look less like ranty crumbs of thought, but in the meantime…] The still prevalent myth is that ‘the economy’ is something neutral, fairly abstract, best left to the experts and best understood in graphs and numbers. This is harmful…

  • Paul the Apostle of Equality

    Christian social and economic ethics does not fall neatly either on the left or the right of the political spectrum (obsolete as it arguably is anyway). Here’s Paul the Apostle beating the drum of… equality – but not with the stick(s) of coercition but with the carrot(s) dug up from the soil of the Gospel.…

  • A parable. Not a joke

    Once upon a time there lived a father like no other. He was super-smart, super-good, and super-strong. In fact, he was so amazing he could fully control everything that happened under the roof of his beautiful home, including all the desires and the doings of his four children. One day he came into the kids’…

  • Charles Simeon on the preacher’s task

    I do love Charles Simeon (1759-1836). Fearless in rejecting party spirit in theology and pastorally discerning through his existential focus of the preacher’s and theologian’s task – relating truths to life! “In Scripture, there are Calvinistic principles to act on man’s hopes, and Arminian principles to act on his fears; both are needful, and combine…

  • Book notice. Mark Noll, “In the Beginning was the Word. The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783” (OUP, 2015)

    Mark Noll’s most recent work promises to be a fascinating – a book of many ironies and complexities about the Bible in American public life. According to a reviewer, Noll shows how Americans have consistently regarded the Bible as being ‘on their side’, always legitimating their policies, their causes and their concerns and/or blessing the status quo.…

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