My derth of posting is due to an attempt to rescue my yard and garden from an encroaching forest. To that end… From the Mysteries of Lisbon DVD liner notes, Ruiz says: “While I was shooting Mysteries of Lisbon, I often thought about Linné– a garden is a battlefield. Any flower is monstrous. In slow motion, […]
The idea of “deconstruction” has achieved a somewhat surprising ubiquity in our current culture. In addition to relatively long-standing applications in literary and cultural criticism, deconstruction has also found a home in political punditry and haute cuisine (what does it mean to “deconstruct” a meatloaf anyway?). But perhaps most enamored with the idea of deconstruction […]
In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant looks to avoid the epistemological trap of “correlationism” by borrowing a novel kind of transcendental argument from Roy Bhasker. Rather than asking what our minds would have to be like in order to experience the world as we do, Bryant asks what the world would have to be like […]
In the days when our courthouse was being built, a mason—we don’t know who—came to our village in the night and inscribed a simple phrase on the building’s cornerstone: God’s will be done. We were, at first, outraged that someone had dared to soil our builder’s work, but over the course of generations, the mason’s […]
I’ve found that one of the more interesting theological claims made by historical Christianity is in relation to the so-called problem of evil. Traditionally speaking, evil is not a significant problem in classical Christian thought because evil does not exist. In short, as I am sure you are well aware, the claim is that evil […]
In this essay, David Kline and Dan Rhodes discuss how Christianity can learn from the Tea Party, while at the same time showing how the language of cliché not only distracts us from the real political issues we face but also creates an ersatz sense of certainty that can make us unintentional participants in evil and violence.
It’s a grey and dreary downpour of a day here in Seattle. Help all of us in the Pacific Northwest fight this oppression. I’ve just posted this plea for help on my Facebook page: What are the most colorful movies you can think of?
W. Scott Poole, PhD, is Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston and likes to spend his time researching our fascination with things that go bump (or ‘bomp bah bomp bah bomp’) in the night. Unlike most academicians, Scott’s the kind of guy you actually want to hang out with outside of class. […]