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Author Katy Scrogin uses Václav Havel’s discussion of hope and fear to address the problem of individualism in US political life.

In case you were concerned that your favorite pop rock stars were not holy enough, Justin Bieber has saved the day. He is now sporting two tattoos of his main man, Jesus. That’s right, Bieber’s true ‘common denominator’ (aaah) has proven to be Jesus! In an interview, Bieber said, “I focus more on praying and […]

[An abridged version of this review was published previously at Image.] It happens every January — movie ads fill up with boasts about awards they’ve won. In a few days, those boasts will start to include Oscar nominations. And The Artist is currently the most boastful of all. Filmmaker Michael Hazanavicius’s tribute to Hollywood’s silent […]

Sometimes there seems a shortage of mirrors. Case in point, an article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society for 2010 devoted to the interesting question of whether religious cues make people more likely to inflict punishment in certain artificial settings.  The piece includes this précis of the state of scientific speculation on the origin […]

This Christmas season I had the privilege of attending a memorial service, a vigil in memory of the homeless from our area who had died. Gathered in the early dark of the winter solstice, a group comprised of homeless persons, service providers, and local residents read from a necrology, including twenty names new to the […]

If you are a regular follower of the Mediation blog, I (on behalf of myself, Brian, Thomas, Aaron and Kelly) have to apologize for a slowdown in posts, especially over the Christmas season. In all of the far-flung places we are found across this great continent (from Seattle to Atlanta to Toronto), things have been […]

Not much time left to submit a paper. The deadline is January 15. Here’s a link to the CFP. Registration information is now available. —————— Registration Information for the 2012 meeting of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology (SCPT)  Creation, Creatureliness, and Creativity: The Human Place in the Natural World  April 20-22, 2012 Loyola […]

Pastoral memoirs are not a genre in great demand. They don’t tend to make it to the New York Times Best Sellers list. After all, the pastoral vocation, some say, has fallen on hard times and Christian pastors writing about spirituality seem to have lost their influence in the marketplace of ideas. But there is […]

Here is a brief break from the usual kind of post, because in the past couple of months I found a couple videos that are too good not to share. Riley, a young, thoughtful feminist on marketing and gender: And Econ Stories has a number of spoken word/hip hop videos explaining Hayek and Keynes, and […]