Chad Lakies

CFP – Political Theology: The Liberation of the Postsecular?

The Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion has just released this Call for Papers for their next major conference to be hosted next year at Liverpool Hope University. The deadline for abstracts is February 28, 2015. CALL FOR PAPERS Political Theology: The Liberation of the Postsecular? July 10-12 2015, Liverpool Hope University, UK.  A conference […]

Chad Lakies

Jesus is a Bad Idea

I used to be quite interested in contemporary Christian apologetics (and by “contemporary” I mean something like “modernist”). That is, until I realized that the foundationalism necessary to undergird the enterprise actually tends to undermine the Christian faith it intends to uphold. For example, in the ongoing arguments between evolution and creationism (including the other […]

Chad Lakies

CFP: Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society

The following CFP may be of interest to readers because of the various topics to be taken up at the conference. Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA 16-17 April 2015 Call For Papers The International Advisory Board is pleased to announce the Call For […]

Chad Lakies

CFP: 2014 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture: Faith and Film

This recently posted call for papers may be of interest to some of our readers. Consider submitting a proposal or simply putting it on your calendar to be in attendance. You can find details regarding proposal submissions at the bottom of the page. To find out more about Baylor’s Institute for Faith and Learning, which […]

Chad Lakies

New Series Title: Who’s Afraid of Relativism? by James K. A. Smith

It’s been a long time since there has been any activity here on ChurchandPomo. Many apologies for that, but no excuses. I do hope to have a few things lined up for the future. At any rate, I’m excited to mention that there is a new book in the Church and Postmodern Culture Series that […]

Chad Lakies

The Paradox of Loneliness in the Midst of Community

(Thanksgiving, 2013) From the confines of Tegel prison in Berlin, Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned these moving words to his family: It’s remarkable how we think at such times about the people that we should not like to live without, and almost or entirely forget about ourselves. It is only then that we feel how closely our […]

Chad Lakies

Upcoming Book Symposium – DeRoo: Futuriity in Phenomenology

Next week we begin a new book discussion with some fantastic philosophers who are also wonderful gifts to the church.Their work in itself challenges the ecclesia in profound ways, but also draws from the deep wells of philosophical thinkers who themselves, may or may not drink from the water of life that Christ gives, yet […]

Chad Lakies

Vocation and Cultural Capital

The doctrine of vocation, emerging from Martin Luther’s theological genius and taken up by the other Reformers (and handed down to us today) has functioned to bring about the sanctification of ordinary life as Charles Taylor as others have rightfully noticed.[1] Where there was once a hierarchy in which churchly vocations (e.g., monks, priests) were […]

Chad Lakies

Upcoming: Book Symposium – Benson’s Liturgy as a Way of Life

Next week we begin a series of engagements with Bruce Ellis Benson’s terrific new book in the Church and Postmodern Culture Series, Liturgy as a Way of Life. Benson’s unique position as a philosopher and a musician come together in this creative volume to explore how our lives can be a living liturgical way of […]