Since it’s been rather quite around here lately, allow me to take advantage of open-source thinking and pose a couple questions. What is the role that music plays in worship? and…. Is there a difference between playing music in a worship setting as opposed to other settings? To elaborate a little: It is certainly the […]
In this theological response to the Haiti earthquake, Nathan Kerr suggests that rather than merely speaking about God, Christians should inhabit a mode of speaking to God that responds to the oppressed victims of Haiti by living in solidarity with them, both in revolt against the powers that oppress and in hope that God might liberate them to live and love freely.
The Auteurs has an interview up with Goodbye Solo director Ramin Bahrani (part one and part two). Who knew that Bahrani is planning on directing a Western? Who knew that “the facts don’t really matter”? Who knew that Bahrani isn’t a big fan of the neo-realist label? Okay, that last one is actually a bit […]
When teaching courses on basic concepts in religious studies and comparative religion, I often find myself wondering what resources the history of cinema has to offer the classroom. Simply talking about rites of passage, religious language, or variations in Buddhist dogma while scribbling lecture aids on the chalkboard works well enough. But I often wish […]
Religion and Modernity in a Secular City Katholische Akademie in Berlin 16 – 18 September 2010 Call for Papers: Writing from Vichy, France in early 1940, Walter Benjamin articulated what many theologians secretly feared in his Über den Begriff der Geschichte by portraying theology as the hunchback that must keep out of sight. However, Slavoj […]
Following up on the Reed screed against the small screen, here’s fellow iconoclast Werner Herzog on the same subject.
In this interview, Lisa Sharon Harper discusses her evangelical faith and the relationship between evangelicalism and politics, the economy, and social justice activism.
“When Subtitles Go Wrong” at Huffington Post.
In this interview, Lisa Sharon Harper tells of the work her organization, New York Faith and Justice, is doing to bring economic and social justice to the powerless in New York City.