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Thursday :: March 11, 2010

Gird Up Your Loins, Haiti: A Lesson in Theodicy from Job

by Billy Daniel

One cannot evade the question of God, especially in matters such as the earthquake in Haiti or Chile and the devastation that has followed. Disasters, both natural and unnatural, have a way of opening the human to epistemological crises, and if Alasdair MacIntyre is right, such crises are the essential element of any viable system of thought.1 Pat Robertson, on the other hand, the . . .

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Wednesday :: March 3, 2010

A Tale of Two Cities

by Edward R. Brown

There are few air hops that will give you a greater contrast than the four-hour trip from Nairobi to Dubai. Nairobi is the capital of one of the poorer nations in the world, the home of the infamous Kibera slum, and a textbook case of how population growth, rapid unplanned development, and massive environmental degradation result in poverty an . . .

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Wednesday :: February 24, 2010

Bono’s Dream of Capitalism without Capital? Don’t You Dare Steal My Enjoyment!

by Carl Raschke

Enjoy Your Capitalism while It Lasts In his early, groundbreaking work Tarrying with the Negative, Slavoj Źiźek opens up a novel, unchartered terrain of both “postmodern” thinking and the possibility of serious philosophical and theological reflection on a broad conceptual space that was just then beginning to exfoliate—the p . . .

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Monday :: February 22, 2010

The Bankrupt’s Prayer

by Timothy E. Bartel

Numbers, once so constant, blur and slip through the zero they were born from— they were only pixels, only forms in ink—the spaces between the spinning stars remain. Shadows, merge round me with dim pinions while I ring this belfry of shells; wing me from this hollow wheel to a place still blank and fortuneless. . . .

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Thursday :: February 18, 2010

“With Sighs Too Deep for Words”: On Praying With the Victims in Haiti

by Nathan R. Kerr

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with . . .

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