Not until very recently did I quite grasp Stanley Hauerwas’s somewhat famous sentence “Best is not a theological category.” It never quite made sense to me. It never struck me as false humility, even though a latent suspicion still remained. I mean, really, who says that in response to being named America’s best theologian in […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAvDtPz33w0] It’s really no surprise that an atheist like Maher interprets Jesus more faithfully than the average North American Christian, but still . . . it’s gotta sting a little. And I don’t even like Maher.
An elder statesman in art and faith circles, John Leax (Jack to friends) is a poet and essayist of hard-earned, humble wisdom, and as such, he avoids the spotlight. The author of books like Country Labors: Poems for All Seasons and Out Walking: Reflections on our Place in the Natural World, he would rather be […]
The ballyhooed and much anticipated comedy, The Hangover Part II, was released in theaters across the country this week. Just as the first film, the movie is backdropped with a pending wedding, which sets the constant tension in the film, as the frenzied (and exaggerated) situations of the “wolfpack” threaten to ruin the wedding. This time, […]
About seven episodes ago, a frequently filmed set of dicsussions about cinema and the “biz” made their way to the internet (accessable either here or here). Ever since then, Look of the Week has been an interesting go-to for good film talk. A few good examples of what goes on in this program would be this contextualization of Certified Copy, this […]
Kenji Koiso has his summer vacation all planned out: he and his friend Sakuma have jobs as low-level administrators of OZ, a massive online social network used by a billion people around the world, and they’ll be working hard to make sure its myriad services run smoothly. Until, that is, Natsuki — the most popular […]
Yesterday, a new component of the annual Edinburgh International Film Festival made its appearance on the internet in association with Mubi. Alongside its usual programming, the EIFF has this year concocted a virtual counterpart, Project: New Cinephilia. If all goes according to plan, it looks like interview and Q&A content from the EIFF itself will spill […]
Shane Claiborne may look like he was the smelly kid in class, but don’t let that fool you–he probably was the smelly kid in class. And for good reason, too. It’s highly unlikely Jesus sported anything like Brute aftershave lotion or Axe’s “Dark Temptations” shower gel (the latter, I imagine, being a more appropriate fit for his arch-enemy). […]
For those interested, I was interviewed recently by a colleague and fellow philosopher, J. Douglas Macready, who blogs at The Relative Absolute. In the interview, we discuss informally, what I have called in the past, an “improvisational” approach to texts. You can access the interview here. The prelude to the interview reads: “Every philosopher eventually stumbles upon […]