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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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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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- Gird Up Your Loins, Haiti: A Lesson in Theodicy from Job :: Billy Daniel
- Bono’s Dream of Capitalism without Capital? Don’t You Dare Steal My Enjoyment! :: Carl Raschke
- “With Sighs Too Deep for Words”: On Praying With the Victims in Haiti :: Nathan R. Kerr
- Why Lord? Haiti and the God-Question :: J. Kameron Carter
- In Praise of Dishonest Managers: The Economic Crisis in Light of Luke 16:1–9 :: Daniel M. Bell Jr.
- Scalp Locks, Gaia, and the Incarnation: History and Theology in James Cameron’s Avatar :: Wen Reagan
- The Jew from Nazareth and the Problem of Whiteness: J. Kameron Carter’s Theological Account of Race :: Adam McInturf
- The Revivification of Racial Reconciliation: Peter Heltzel’s Jesus and Justice, an Engagement with Evangelicals, Justice, and Race :: Mark W. Westmoreland
- O God, Where Art Thou? A Review of A Serious Man :: John Totten
- The Way Mulattas Make Me Feel: Michael Jackson's Domination of the Feminized Other :: Abdel Shakur
- Collaborations on a Blue Jacket: Seattle Artist Spotlight on Tara Ward :: Jen Grabarczyk
- Racism, Art, and the Darkness of Truth: An Interview with Barry Moser :: Becky Crook; art by Barry Moser
- Re-Imaging a Native American History of (Un)-Belonging :: Natalie Ball
- Art for the People: Emory Douglas :: Jen Grabarczyk
- The Habit of Being: A Portrait of Miss Mystery and Manners :: Laura Lasworth
- A Tale of Two Cities :: Edward R. Brown
- Social Justice in the Inner City: An Interview with Lisa Sharon Harper, Part II :: Mark Russell
- Social Justice in the Inner City: An Interview with Lisa Sharon Harper, Part I :: Mark Russell
- The Advent Conspiracy: An Interview with Josh Butler :: Mark Russell
- Stories of New Creation, Reconciliation, and Hope: An Interview with Chris Rice :: Dan Rhodes
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Britney Spears and the Downward Arc of Empire: An Interview with Eugene McCarraher
bradey says ::
Aligning the other view with Castro and claiming that it only considers facts as irrelevant or opportunistically or as never grounded in reality? Wow Strabes, you are seriously stretching things and starting to sound really silly in these blatant mis . . .READ MORE >
Three Questions on Modern Atheism: An Interview with John Milbank
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An Interview with Stanley Hauerwas
bradey says ::
Stanley Hauerwas: It could, it could. I have nothing against that. You know I’m accused of being a sectarian fideistic tribalist calling Christians away from involvement in government. No! I just want them to be there as Christians.READ MORE >
Between Sojourners and the Simple Way? Rethinking Radical, Evangelical Politics in ’08 with John Howard Yoder
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What is Wrong with Capitalism? The Problem with the Problem with Capitalism
bradey says ::
I do not see much in your response with which I feel any special urge to take issue. Your advocacy for the primacy of the internal critique makes some sense given the way you have identified your audience as “those outside theology.” Whereas my essay . . .READ MORE >
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
NikA says ::
Thanks for reading! There is an updated/revised version of this article in Brad Jersak's book Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hell, Hope, and the New Jerusalem (Wipf and Stock, 2009)READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
Sorry for posting this twice - I stuck it in the wrong place above the first time. drhodes, of course that is a classic text which "all along belonging" folks turn to. As do Univeralists. I'm certainly not suggesting that you are a Universalist . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
drhodes, of course that is a classic text which "all along belonging" folks turn to. As do Univeralists. I'm certainly not suggesting that you are a Universalist, for I don't know that you are. And many (most?) of the "all along" crowd would . . .READ MORE >
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
Phule77 says ::
Hrm. I wish that there was an edit function, you do deal with some of this in footnote 32.READ MORE >
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
Phule77 says ::
Hi. I'm not sure if you're aware, but this article was referenced in the footnotes of Brian McLaren's "A New Kind of Christianity" (footnote 1, chapter 10). So this page is likely to start getting traffic after nearly a year. A number of issu . . .READ MORE >
Does Science Cause Atheism?
natewoodwardmusic says ::
Larry, I always appreciate your writing. I'm completely on board with you. As someone who has relationships with Christians more conservatively oriented (and more suspicious of science), I would wish you would refrain from statements like your . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
drhodes says ::
jking, you might do well to notice that the paragraph in which the sentence fragment you cite below appears begins by saying "For God so loved the world..." I would think that this seems to imply something quite akin to all-belonging as an active p . . .READ MORE >
Highlights from the J Series
gilman says ::
Very thoughtful, and I will try to listen to the Archbishop. Right here I'm just putting in a shameless plug for one of the most beautiful and unusual of groups trying to create understanding between Israelis and Palestinians: "Combatants for Peac . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
Interesting article, Jon. But challenging the historic biblical understanding of hell may be getting a bit far afield from the original discussion, unless you assume that the "gospel of all along belonging" means that you are a Universalist by vir . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
jstanley says ::
I've been enjoying this conversation very much but feel that it could use some 'opening up' so that it doesn't trail off into ad homnem argumentation (which really isn't argumentation at all). One way to do this is by drawing in another text tha . . .READ MORE >