The Abnormal Amateur: Or Why Tim Tebow Never Got Flagged for Excessive Celebration
In looking at the rules governing football celebrations, James M. Smith seeks to address Foucault’s notion of the abnormal.
In looking at the rules governing football celebrations, James M. Smith seeks to address Foucault’s notion of the abnormal.
In this essay, John B. White explores how (not) to exercise.
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. This week Biola University hosted an interesting conversation on the Future of Protestantism (video). The Times reviews a Barbara Ehrenreich book that was featured in past Briefings: “Living With a Wild […]
You know, The Monster Mash! Okay, sorry. I won’t bother with my usual attempts at scatological satire. I really, really wanted to, but it all seemed so contrived (and too easy). So, let’s go with this assertion instead: There are good people in this world, there are bad people in this world, and then there […]
This essay is neither for nor against Glenn Beck. The philosopher Michel Foucault warns us to be suspicious of proper names because they tempt us to ascribe agency to the person instead of to the overall flow of discourse, knowledge, and power out of which the person emerges as an agent. I seek to provide […]
A review of J. Kameron Carter’s recently published book, RACE: A THEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
A review of Evangelicals and Empire, edited by Bruce Benson and Peter Heltzel.