About O’ Theophilus
“…that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.”
Luke 1:4, ESV
Mission
Exploring stories through the Christian Story.
Vision
Telling better stories for a better tomorrow, by teaching Gen Z how to think with and through the Christian Story.
Core Values
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We uphold the tenets of orthodox Christianity, as presented in the Scriptures and summarized by the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 AD. Our cultural engagement is anchored intuitively in these foundational Christian beliefs.
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We believe in the necessary integrity of handling cultural texts, visual media, and music in our engagement with respect and decency. We exegete, or interpret, the meaning of cultural art by evaluating the content on its own terms to the best of our ability, thereby limiting misinformation and honoring the works we engage with.
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We encourage imagination and inquiry as we think about God and ourselves through culture and story. We can be anchored to orthodox Christian beliefs while exploring truths about who God is and who we are in cultural engagement.
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We intend to change culture through our content exploration and creation, not merely leave it as it is. We are convinced that we play a role in shaping the world of tomorrow, and that tomorrow starts with the stories that we tell ourselves and others today.
About Me.
Biblical Theologian. Writer. Story Analyst.
My name is Caleb Gordon. I am a biblical theologian and exegete who enjoys a good story.
As a kid, I fell in love with stories. I dreamed of new worlds, sketched universes into being, drew characters, fleshed out backstories, and stretched the limits of my imagination. Eventually, someone loved me enough to tell me the greatest story ever told - the story of Christ. I fell in love with this story and the Scriptures that told it, and I became convinced that this story was the key to understanding any other story ever told.
This conviction led me to study story, religion, Bible, theology, church history, Greek, and Hebrew in an undergraduate degree at Liberty University. Eventually, I moved to Duke University, where I am currently studying biblical theology in an M.Div. program. I believe that a new world for storytelling is just beyond the horizon, where the the Bible charts the course and helps us to tell better stories.
This is why O’ Theophilus exists.
Check out one of my first graphics for O’ Theophilus back in 2022. We’ve come a long way since then!
Our History.
Between the summer of 2021 and the spring of 2022, I created and launched O’ Theophilus to teach Gen Z how they can engage the world, culture, and other people as loving, faithful, and evangelical ambassadors of Jesus Christ. I wrote occasional blog posts from that time on, teaching the theology of the Bible and reflecting on it in my life as a follower of Jesus.
Now, it’s time to take O’ Theophilus to the next level.
O’ Theophilus is and has always been about providing certainty to believers. Just as Luke did for Theophilus, we do this through interpreting the biblical story, using it to understand the world around us, and passing it down to others.
Truth is, Gen Z has grown up surrounded by all kinds of stories. We watch edits on social media, read the news about what kind of stories that society is and should be telling, and look up to our favorite fictional characters for meaning and inspiration.
O’ Theophilus is still committed to providing certainty to believers, but we are expanding our scope to do so where Gen Z lives and thinks. To provide certainty today, we have to know our story through the Bible and explore other stories through it.
My hope is to show you how the Bible changed my life and unlocked a new way of seeing the world and the stories that try to explain it. The biblical story changes everything, and it has the ability to breathe new life into the stories we tell. Telling better stories for a better tomorrow is possible, but only through the story of Christ.
Welcome back to O’ Theophilus.