In light of the absolute disaster that occurred in Ohio, where a man freed his more than fifty exotic animals prior to killing himself, I thought it crucial to point out the following documentary. The Elephant in the Living Room follows Tim Harrison (a correctional officer and exotic-animal rescuer) as he attempts to resolve various […]
TOJ’s Music Editor, John Totten, sat down in a seedy Wyoming hotel room with singer/songwriter Eric Earley to discuss the darkness of Americana and Blitzen Trapper’s new album, “American Goldwing.” Live tour footage from a Blitzen Trapper show at the Seasons Performance Hall in Yakima, WA is included.
In what appears to either be a parody of Christian film-making, or just another incredibly bad attempt to demonize evolutionary biologists, atheists, and people who wear sunglasses at night (I’ve never trusted those kids either), Suing the Devil claims to be an “epic, spiritual battle” involving a “thrilling faith-based” legal scenario where a janitor attending […]
It is tough to still think, a hundred years into the linguistic turn, that philosophy is much in charge of anything: growing the food, overseeing the menu, preparing the meal, or even serving it up. But philosophy can still help us chew on things. It can be a second stomach that helps digest the kinds of […]
The following is a guest post by Jonathan McGregor. Jonathan is a Ph.D. student in English and American Literature and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. His research interests include 20th century and contemporary American fiction, modernity and postmodernity, secularity and postsecularity, religious epistemology, and political theology. His favorite book is […]
Evangelical attitudes on evolution are two-sided: all polls show a fat majority for total rejection, about 65%, but a little over a quarter of US evangelicals affirm the statement that “humans and other living things have evolved over time” (a recent Pew Forum survey). Evangelicals who accept evolution, the basic organizing principle of modern biology, […]
Another obscure evangelical pastor has made a controversial pronouncement which has been picked up by the mass media. Fortunately, there’s no Qu’ran-burning this time around… instead, one hitherto unknown Pastor Robert Jeffress has been quoted as saying that Christians should not vote for potential Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney because he is a member of […]
A friend of mine brought to my attention an amazing example of “political theology” on the ground: La Familia Michoacana, a drug cartel and organized crime syndicate in the Mexican state of Michoacán. I am a doubter when it comes to grand narratives of how political action is the direct development of theological ideas, though […]
From time to time, one of the new things we’ll try to do here at churchandpomo is offer resources to you hungry readers. As a practitioner and academic, I’ve found it helpful to delve into the vast virtual realm of the interwebs to mine them for whatever interesting tidbits I might find on continental thought, […]