This is from A.G. Harmon’s “Bread and Circuses,” posted at Good Letters, the blog of Image: Just as democracy requires care—the hard work of civic participation, and an often discomforting engagement with communal undertakings—lest the very thing that is so great about it, autonomy, degenerate into self-absorption, so does the mind require some type of […]
My good friend Matt Litton recently honored me with a lovely signed copy of his new and destined to be a classic, The Mockingbird Parables. It’s a terrific book that plunges the depths of Harper Lee’s masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird and surfaces with some incredibly solid and challenging reflections on living a life of Christian faith. It has also outsold all my books . . . combined. I kind of hate the […]
Chef John Perkins discusses food and theology while preparing a meal for his guests at Entre, his underground restaurant. Filmed by Tangent Mind.
The second instalment in our review symposium on Aaron Simmons’ God and the Other: Ethics and Politics after the Theological Turn is from Stephen Minister who is assistant professor of philosophy at Augustana College in South Dakota where he specializes in continental philosophy and ethics. Simmons’ God and the Other is an impressive work, […]
According to the Gospel of John, when Jesus first appears after his resurrection he is mistaken for a gardener. He comes to Mary Magdalene, who is weeping at the empty tomb, and she asks him what has been done with Jesus’s body. But perhaps this case of mistaken identity tells us something about the character […]
Incredible. Alabama has now trumped Arizona in terms of bigotry toward the stranger. I didn’t think such a thing was possible. All of the fine upstanding moral Christians responsible must be proud . . . and incredibly ignorant of the Bible’s straightforward stance in relation to practicing hospitality to the stranger/exile/alien. Here’s just one example: When […]
This week, we welcome a guest contributor to Filmwell, Stephen Lamb. Today, he takes a look at the new film by Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong. • Poetry is a summons to pay attention, an invitation to look closer at the world around us. In her wonderful little book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, […]
Eddie Shannon, a London-based designer, recently launched Film On Paper, a searchable online gallery of his rather impressive movie poster collection. The site, which took Shannon two years and over a thousand hours to prepare, boasts photos, artist info, and background details for nearly 1,500 posters representing over 900 movies. The site has some of […]