Issue 11: Atheism

Christopher Mulrooney

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In this poem, Christopher Mulrooney offers an amusing contrast between belief and disbelief.

Ben Suriano

On What Could Quite Rightly Pass for a Fetish: Some Thoughts on Whether “Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’”

In this essay, Ben Suriano responds to Jon Stanley’s claim that there are at least two (very biblical) ways that every Christian would do well to “quite rightly pass for an atheist.” The essay argues that every Christian should rather “quite rightly pass for a Christian” because the predominant form of atheism is in fact the core metaphysical and ontological assumption that makes possible the imperial logics operative in both the Roman and modern order.

Courtney Druz

Spring Prayer

In this poem by Courtney Druz we are challenged to “grow beyond the brittle carapace” of our selves and “leap like an ibex” from the “crags” of our doubt.

Christine Sine

Why We Live In Community

In this essay, Christine Sine explores the Christian reasons for living in community, especially in contrast to atheistic ideologies.

Brandi Gentry

Bog Psalm

In this poem, Brandi Gentry uses a recently discovered medieval psalter as poetic bridge to tangling with faith and understanding resurrection.

Luci Shaw

Reconstruction

In this poem, Luci Shaw metaphorically considers the cycles of collapse and reformation that define the spiritual life.

Matthew Shedden

A Radical Friendship: A Review of Christianity, Democracy, and The Radical Ordinary

In the midst of an election year it seems our allegiances are being torn between the Left and the Right—the left deciding between Clinton and Obama, and the right wondering if McCain is the right man for the job. With every election year comes the promise of hope and the apparently inevitable disappointment that follows […]

Andy Barnes

Dark Matter: Reading Philip Pullman in Metro Manila

In this essay, Andy Barnes writes about his experience reading Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, while visiting the Philippines, and considers Pullman’s descriptions of the atomization of both body and soul, in the context of Manila’s slums.

Andy Barnes

Dark Matter: Reading Philip Pullman in Metro Manila

In this essay, Andy Barnes writes about his experience reading Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, while visiting the Philippines, and considers Pullman’s descriptions of the atomization of both body and soul, in the context of Manila’s slums.

Luci Shaw

Holding on

In this poem, Luci Shaw evokes sharp images of winter, mystery, nihilism, and death.

Ryan Dueck

The New Atheism as Inadequate Theodicy

Author Ryan Dueck examines the new atheist movement as a theodicy, building common language between atheists and theists, and offering a critique of some of the more strident atheist voices in contemporary culture.

Brad Davis

Praise Him

In this poem, Brad Davis attends to feelings of faith and doubt that swim through tragedy’s aftermath.

Brad Davis

Praise Him

In this poem, Brad Davis attends to feelings of faith and doubt that swim through tragedy’s aftermath.

David JP Hooker

Selected Works

An eclectic selection of works by David JP Hooker.

J. Paul Fridenmaker, Jeffrey Overstreet

Painting Auralia’s Colors: An Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet

In this interview, Jeffrey Overstreet discusses his novel “Auralia’s Colors” and examines the way in which artists are compelled to “look closer” at the world, to “discover and reaffirm why things were put that way in the first place.”

Jendi Relti

The Common Question

In this poem, Jendi Reiter’s narrator seeks new perspective in this “racing-away circumstance.”

Meroid Westphal

Atheism for Lent

In this essay, Fordam University’s Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Merold Westphal, challenges the reader to examine her soul during the Lenten season through the work of the famous atheists Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.