Everything I do, I do it for you…
Here comes Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. I’ve been curious about it, but then a critic put into words the very problem that has made me suspicious.
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An Ancient, Unbroken Song: A Review of Gina Oschner’s The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
Young reviews Gina Oschner’s critically acclaimed novel THE RUSSIAN DREAMBOOK OF COLOR AND FLIGHT, with an eye to how the novel’s post-Soviet characters mirror Young’s own experience living with her missionary family in Latvia.
Specters of Rage in an Age of Change – Sloterdijk and the “End” of the Postmodern
Multiple Specters Perhaps we can adapt just one more time Marx’s well-known and overadapted opening to The Communist Manifesto that a “specter is stalking” us. It was this same “specter” that Derrida back in the mid-1980s adapted in Specters of Marx to rejuvenate what by then was his already aging project of deconstruction to produce […]
The Gift of Difference – Part II – Review of the Parts
(x-posted at the de-scribe) In Part I I addressed some of the shortfalls of the overall project while affirming what was perhaps the inevitable ‘shortfall’ of the two dialogue camps. Putting aside any larger intentions of this collection the chapters themselves maintained a steady offering of what it means to “to be differently ethical and […]
A Material Semiotics?
An attempt this week to organize some thoughts, inspired by my work on Bruno Latour, about how to describe my approach to hermeneutics. 1. Material Semiotics Broadly, my hermeneutic approach could be described as a “material semiotics,” but the kind of material semiotics I’ve got in mind requires us to read the relationship between the “material” […]
The “Righteous Rich” in the Old Testament
The Old Testament recognizes that riches can be gained through wickedness and oppression, but it also teaches and exemplifies that those to whom God grants more than ordinary wealth can and should make use of it in ways that are righteous before God, both in attitude and in practice.
The Gift of Difference – Part I – A Review of the Whole
(x-posted at the de-scribe) Jaime’s previously posted blurb gave me a shot in the arm to offer my first post here at church & pomo. The Gift of Difference is perhaps best understood in its ambiguous subtitle, “Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation.” Just what is the relationship between these two expressions? Any number of conjunctives or […]
Silver Linings in Dark Financial Clouds: Discovering Spiritual Gold in the "Economic Crisis"
A mother reflects on the opportunities for moral growth, generosity, and compassion presented by our current economic crisis.
Filmwell's Book of Filmmaker Wisdom, Excerpt 11: The Dardenne Brothers
Cineaste: Why are there so many silences and so little dialog in your films? Jean-Pierre Dardenne: In fact, The Son is a film about the difficulty of speaking…. We are more interested in trying to give meaning to a scene by the way we film the relations between the characters’ bodies and what gestures a […]