First of all, given my Feuerbachian sensibilities, I imagine lions envision a deity that looks like a lion–while, and I’m only guessing, gazelles would be greatly offended by such an idea. You know, at some predestined future moment in or outside of time the “great gazelle in the sky” is going to pass judgment on […]
UPDATE: Thanks for your interest! My inbox overfloweth, so I’m closing this call for reviews. Reviewers will hear from me over the next few days. If you haven’t heard anything by this week, you were not selected. Watch for reviews of these to appear over the next couple of months. We’ll be sure to do […]
Journalists seem to reserve a special inanity for questions pertaining to space travel and extraterrestrial life. The New York Times is particularly heinous, uncritically cheering any and all claims for our manifest destiny on Mars or for the wonders of space tourism or the International Space Station (which has produced less scientific return on the […]
Actor Charlie Sheen has made headlines this week with his no-longer-exclusive ABC interview on 20/20 in which his extremely odd behavior was sort of funny, mostly pathetic, slightly frightening. Sheen appeared with his two “goddesses” (girlfriends) and spoke about a variety of self-involved topics, such as “winning” and being on a drug called “Charliesheen.” Awesome–literally, “so […]
A recent article on Francis Schaeffer in Commonweal magazine highlights the “tremendous tension” in the thought of the man who was arguably the most influential intellectual for a generation of evangelicals. On the one hand, Schaeffer and his friend H.R. Rookmaaker loved the arts, enjoying the music, painting and philosophy of the twentieth century and […]
In a recent re-reading of the classic graphic novel Watchmen (a reading spurred by the not-too-distant theatrical release), it was noticed that despite being written nearly thirty years ago near the climax of the Cold War, Watchmen holds its force still. The classic work written by Alan Moore with art by Dave Gibbons, recounts a […]
Led by Professor of Christian Ethics, Amy Laura Hall, a number of Duke Divinity students decided to give a little “toast” to those fine men and women at my lovely Alma mater (Go Duke!) who have found themselves worthy, in a time of great economic downfall, of bonuses. And I don’t mean a ‘wee’ Christmas […]
One year ago, Paste Magazine’s associate editor Rachel Maddux wrote a provocative article that asked the question, “Is Indie dead?” Comparing the question to the one TIME writer John T. Elson wrote forty five years ago concerning the more existential question, is God dead?, Maddux ties the theological question to the musical one: Elson wrote […]
In this interview, Gary Dorrien discusses the contemporary economic crisis, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s economic perspective, and constructive theological responses to empire, including the implementation of his own theories of economic democracy.
