“Approximately two thousand of these ‘Easter’ Sundays have occurred and take a look around you: things aren’t any better. They’re actually worse. What’s improved since ‘the’ messiah showed up? We’re absolutely no better off than we were two thousand years ago. I don’t see how Jesus made the slightest bit of real difference at all.” […]
The board of directors of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. recently, and unanimously, decided that they will not invest in companies that “benefit from products or services used to perpetrate acts of violence against Palestinians, Israelis and other people groups.” Okay, I know. I can’t believe we had to vote on that one, but still […]
Prada, teaser for Candy, by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola “Ethical, juridical, or political responsibility, if there is any, consists in deciding on the strategic orientation to give to this problematic…for which truth, no more than reality, is not an object given in advance that it would be a matter of simply reflecting adequately.” Jacques […]
Theodor Adorno, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek: What do these thinkers have in common? First, they are all Marxists.1 Second, they have all received significant attention in the theological community; each of these theorists, for example, has been the subject of a full-length volume in Continuum’s exciting Philosophy […]
We live in a world shaped by capitalism, an economic model that (we’re told) provides the very best opportunity for economic and social mobility, the very best economic system to promote human flourishing. It’s a narrative the Western church has dogmatically adopted and, as a result, the good news of Christianity has become fused with […]
(Ed. note: A very welcome, detailed, and incisive guest post from Ryan Holt, who does not write enough about cinema over here. This is the second post in a series on De Palma and Chris Dumas’ recent book Un-American Psycho.) In his “film essay” on forgery and deceit, F for Fake, Orson Welles performs a magic trick […]
This reflection explores some aspects of the relationship between the priestly ministry of Jesus Christ and the mission of God in which the church participates.
(Ed. note: A very welcome, detailed, and incisive guest post from Ryan Holt, who does not write enough about cinema over here. This is the first post in a series on De Palma and Chris Dumas’ recent book Un-American Psycho.) “You see, several years ago, long after the floods, moisture seeped into a portion of the altarpiece, […]
An interview with California artist Dominique Ovalle on painting, beauty, murals, cockroaches in Palau, and a reality behind life as an artist.
