There are plenty of reasons why it’s a bad idea to write a book about ascending spiritual heights. The first is because that book has been written—by Plato (Symposium), Plotinus (Enneads), Pseudo-Dionysius (Mystical Theology), Dante (Divine Comedy), Bonaventure (The Mind’s Journey into God), Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae). There are many more, and they are weirder.
An interview between TOJ Editor-in-Chief Chris Keller and the author of GENERATION EX-CHRISTIAN, Drew Dyck.
In 1991, the Academy Award for Best Picture went to the disturbing psycho thriller, The Silence of the Lambs. Movie-goers were left wondering what meaning lies behind awarding such an horrific, grotesque, and arguably evil tale about serial killers with cinema’s highest honor, the Oscar. In the volleying commentary between art and culture, what does […]
The Super Bowl spectacle provides an intersection of Christ and culture with an ad that won’t be shown.
The award-winning film “The Social Network” opens up a discussion of human loneliness.
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart made a pointed critique on the “corruption” he found in the media. His critique creates a segue into the provocative notion that the Church, under the influence of the media, has also engaged in such “corruption.” What is the “corruption” of which Stewart speaks? And is mainstream American Evangelicalism guilty of such “corruption” itself? Maybe…maybe not. You decide.
The hit reality TV show Cake Boss is about more than the stressful life of the baker at a celebrated New Jersey bakery: it shows that food can be art, and in food art there is the characteristic of humanity’s mortality.
The program for the 4th Syracuse Postmodernism, Culture and Religion conference, “The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” is now available at the conference website. You can also download a pdf of the program.