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. Hashtag activism seems to be all the rage but in the case of Nigeria it might be making things worse: Here’s the thing though, when you pressure Western powers, particularly […]
Here at TOJ, we’re always intrigued when we come across like-minded folks doing like-minded work. So when I got word of a new project called “Into the Noise,”an organization that leads trips to some of the major artistic events in our culture, my curiosity was piqued. Started just last year, Into the Noise (ITN) hosts […]
Intellectual traditions are dynamic entities. They grow and change over time. In fact, if Alasdair MacIntyre is correct that a tradition is “an historically extended, socially embodied argument, and an argument precisely in part about the goods which constitute that tradition,” then this dynamism is perhaps the distinctive characteristic of tradition-as-such.[1] Thus, precisely because traditions […]
The following CFP may be of interest to readers because of the various topics to be taken up at the conference. Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA 16-17 April 2015 Call For Papers The International Advisory Board is pleased to announce the Call For […]
At the beginning of his essay “Contract and Birthright,” the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin revisits the story in Genesis where Esau sells his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of stew. As Wolin sees it, Esau “bartered what was unique and irreplaceable for a material good for which there was a number of […]
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. This week Biola University hosted an interesting conversation on the Future of Protestantism (video). The Times reviews a Barbara Ehrenreich book that was featured in past Briefings: “Living With a Wild […]
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. In an excellent essay at Salon, David Foster Wallace’s concerns about irony are reconsidered: So where have we gone from irony? Irony is now fashionable and a widely embraced default […]
Revolutionary Christian Citizenship By John Howard Yoder and Edited by John C. Nugent, Branson Parler, and Andy Alexis-Baker Yoder for Everyone, Vol. 2 Herald Press, 2013. 171 pages. $15.99. Discipleship and Political Disruption by Dan Rhodes My guess is that Yoder would wryly smirk at the idea of a “Yoder for Everyone” series. I […]
The following is a guest post by Matthew John Paul Tan. The Body. The Universal. The Passion. Palm Sunday begins the week of commemoration of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The week in the leadup to Easter will be particularly intense for the churchgoer. If one is not stepping up of […]