Say the Love of God is an Addiction
In the poem, MEH considers the draws of appetite and desire, for both food and God, as “sometimes sweet, often bitter…(a) blind rage which pursues us through the day…”
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When a Nickel is Not Worth a Dime: Trakakis Rejoinder to Simmons
Conversation about Aaron Simmon’s God and the Other continues with this rejoinder from Nick Trakakis to Simmons’ earlier reply. Simmons’ ‘reconstructive separatism’, as a way of reconceiving the relationship between philosophy and theology, is certainly a step forward from separatist conceptions (such as Heidegger’s methodological atheism) and reconstructivist views (such as Derridean ‘religious without […]
The Possibility of an Evangelical Poet, Part Two
Editor’s Note: If you missed Part One of Ryan Harper’s article, click here. Louise Glück’s call for poets to embrace open-endedness are not new. She writes in the spirit of the great American poets of contingency—Walt Whitman, Charles Olson, and A. R. Ammons, to name a few. Although this tradition resonates with me, historically it […]
Adaptation and Authority
With the incredible number of movies being adapted from previously existing works, it was bound to happen. True believers are screaming in agony. Well some are at any rate. Stories being told in the films don’t match up with the already established story lines that have existed. Some deviations might be insignificant but are much […]
The Possibility of an Evangelical Poet, Part One
Ryan Harper muses on whether evangelicalism as we know it is hospitable to the poetic discipline.
Perhaps Marion and Plantinga are Both Right: A Response to Trakakis
This is J. Aaron Simmons’s reply to N.N. Trakakis’s review of God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the Theological Turn (Indiana UP, 2011). To conclude the Review Symposium on God and the Other, Professor Trakakis will soon be offering a rejoinder to Simmons’s reply. J. Aaron Simmons is Assistant Professor of […]
The Rise of the Infographic
Since the Internet has become the source of information and transferred our location of knowledge from paper to digital formats, the infographic has become a form of communication that combines image and word to create a specific way to convey and synthesize knowledge. Magazines like GOOD and Fast Company are huge purveyors of infographics online, […]
Out to Lunch: A Response to Stephen Webb’s "Against the Gourmands"
William Cavanaugh responds to Stephen Webb’s critique.
Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power
I have to get out of this bad habit of taking on too many books at once. I get all gung-ho about reviewing anything that appears interesting to me–well, as gung-ho as a Mennonite can get (I’m lapsed, so it’s pretty damn easy)–and then I realize I’m behind on about two dozen book reviews. In this case, however, […]