I rarely post articles by other people, but due to my love for David Bentley Hart (coupled with my growing frustration that high school literature teachers cannot find anything better to indoctrinate their students with than the mawkish and fetishized accounts of the self as dictated by Ayn Rand) I’m willing to make an exception. […]
“Are Christians supposed to employ the Christian side-hug on homosexuals or just not touch them at all?” I’ll be honest, I thought it was a legitimate question. I mean, given the amount of literature on curing homosexuality that my local LifeWay Bookstore carries I assumed the clerk would have an answer. “Are you trying to […]
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke University, is an ex-bricklayer, lover of four-letter words, author of the recent memoir Hannah’s Child, and was named “America’s Best Theologian” by Time Magazine in 2001–which proves that the people at Time never actually bothered to read Stanley. Silly journalists. Hauerwas has published an embarrassing […]
Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend is still one of my favorite one-shots’ of all time. I’ve tried and tried to craft some deft theological spin on it. I’ve failed every time. At the end of the day, it very well may be Morrison just being Morrison. You know, ripping on the world for not being […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw] I hope the state isn’t paying attention.
This is one of the greatest finds to be discovered in the hills of Kentucky. A local convenience store made my world a better place by carrying this lovely packaged brownie. Oh, Mennonite Delight. “Thinking of you is working up my appetite.” (And, yes, it really does say, “It’s all good!”)
Twelve sayings of Jesus that, based on our practices, obviously must have included parenthetical remarks in the original text. 1. You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (unless your generals, leaders, […]
First of all, given my Feuerbachian sensibilities, I imagine lions envision a deity that looks like a lion–while, and I’m only guessing, gazelles would be greatly offended by such an idea. You know, at some predestined future moment in or outside of time the “great gazelle in the sky” is going to pass judgment on […]
Led by Professor of Christian Ethics, Amy Laura Hall, a number of Duke Divinity students decided to give a little “toast” to those fine men and women at my lovely Alma mater (Go Duke!) who have found themselves worthy, in a time of great economic downfall, of bonuses. And I don’t mean a ‘wee’ Christmas […]