Alex Sosler

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Alex Sosler is an Associate Professor of Bible and Ministry at Montreat College and an Assisting Priest at Redeemer Anglican Church in Asheville. He is the author of A Short Guide to Spiritual Formation and Learning to Love, as well as co-author of The Artistic Vision and editor of Theology and the Avett Brothers.

Recent Essays

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.

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 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.

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 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.