Holy crap. This is awesome. Normally, the lives of people like Palin are beneath my notice (and yes, I mean that in the most pretentious way possible–I’m a living paradox like that), but this is gold. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w&feature=related] Of course, everyone makes mistakes. I can’t even keep the facts about last weekend straight. But, what makes all […]
There seem to be some terribly strange and inconsistent themes at work in terms of biblical interpretation these days. While the early church spent much of its time interpreting the sayings of Jesus (as well as the prophets on issues regarding the poor and the stranger) literally with the more “incredulous” stories as allegorical, there appears to be an odd reversal of this strategy in the contemporary […]
Finally, after two decades of hard work (or, well, more like two years of me kind of trying), Third-Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the Shadow of Religious Empire is finally out. This is a collection of brief theological articles discussing everything from national holidays to Steve Irwin, from Star Trek to parthenogenesis (and nope, Mother Mary, female whipped-tail lizards, and marmokrebs decidely do not get […]
[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.
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). […]
Apparently, both of my publishers were waiting to see if Harold Camping was going to be right. That’s the only explanation I have for why I am still waiting on the publication of my two most recent books Third-Way Allegiance and The Devil Wears Nada. I finished writing Third-Way Allegiance, a book about the co-opting of Christianity with nationalism, and […]
After about 38 laborious years this book has finally come out. (Okay, that was a slight bit of hyperbole, but I wrote my chapter back in 2008. Many thanks to whichever one of you contributors slowed us down–was that you, Steve?) Nevertheless, it looks to be a promising book that provides a constructive grammatical framework for what has […]
In an absolute brilliant use of our tax dollars, the federal government spent an entire year orchestrating a bust on an Amish milk company for selling unpasteurized milk (and yes, the customers knew they were buying “raw” milk–that was the whole point). Regardless of the FDA’s take on milk pasteurization, the fact that these incredibly competent federal agents […]
We are finally getting some press on this lovely book that includes contributions from folks such as John Milbank, D. Stephen Long, and Rosalee Ewell. If you have ever wondered what the Radical Orthodoxy movement might learn from the Radical Reformation (or, vice versa) this is the book for you. If you haven’t ever entertained such […]