Playing off Mad Men as a series of object lessons in modernity is like shooting fish in a barrel. Time and time again, the show has justified the utility of its repetition of Don’s moods and fantasies as an evocation of this era. Around him play out the little dramas of an ad agency and its growing […]
The trauma of God is both God in trauma (i.e., God on the cross) and God as trauma (i.e., God as the cross), crossing one another to place God sous rature (i.e., under the cross), where God becomes no more and no less than a word—but the only word bespeaking a truly universal human community.
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye the past two weeks. Oliver O’Donovan’s meditations on Holy Week: This week, I have been laying the story of Jesus’s passion alongside the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. Each […]
This is a booming month for a few streaming services, as there are a lot of titles/series from 2014 finally making their way onto our devices. And Fandor has an incredible line-up in store. If you have ever wanted to join or start their trial, this is the month. Otherwise, here are a bunch of […]
Peter Chattaway is, as always, right on top of the announcement that there is a film about Paul in the works, with Hugh Jackman in the lead. Given the famous anecdote in the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla which describes him as short, bald, bow-legged, and unibrowed, I have always pictured Paul more as Wallace Shawn than the strapping […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. CNN tells the scandalous story of D.E. Paulk and his family: The boy was watching people sing at a sweaty Pentecostal tent service one Sunday morning when a prophet onstage scanned […]
A sideways memory leads the speaker back to a time of rich experience and unexplored possibilities.
Alissa Herbaly Coons makes a new home with her young family in Australia.
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. A pocket bible lost during World War II has now made it home to its rightful owner: It was a special delivery more than 70 years in the making — […]