Tripp York

what maketh a writer?

A question for all of my fellow (I mean that in the non-etymologically masculine sense) Amish Jihadists: What makes one a writer? Is it the simple, ‘I write, therefore I am a writer’ truism? Or, is it something else? Something more? I just want to know when it’s appropriate or inappropriate to say, ‘I’m a […]

Amy Frykholm

Hunger

A meeting with an Orthodox priest changes a woman’s understanding of the relationship between the spiritual and the physical.

Hannah Peckham

We Are All Magical Thinkers: A Review of Searching for Zion

An engaging blend of memoir and cultural analysis, Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion tells the stories of various communities in the African Diaspora as well as her own search for home in a supposedly post-racial America.

Matthew Shedden

An Ordinary Nine Innings

Our Praxis editor reviews a new book by John Sexton, Baseball as a Road to God.

Zachary Thomas Settle

Breaking Bad Roundtable: Series Finale

Zachary Thomas Settle: Ambivalence in the End: Breaking Bad Series Finale Breaking Bad did not end as a happy story. The show’s final episode did not serve to fully redeem Walt, and all was not made well in the end. In a strangely unique fashion, the final episode of Breaking Bad was far from affective; […]

Andrew Irvine

What is the Work of Faith?

The following is a guest post by Andrew Irvine (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Maryville College). He is the editor of Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (Springer 2009), The present essay comes from a talk that he gave at Maryville College on September 10, 2013. He can be reached at andrew.irvine@maryvillecollege.edu   Matthew 6: […]

Lauren Wilford, Robert Andrew Norman, Zach Hoag, Zachary Thomas Settle

BREAKING BAD ROUNDTABLE: SEASON 5, EPISODE 15

   Zachary Thomas Settle:  And Now He’s Alone: Season 5, Episode 15 Walter White is in decay, and he has been for some time now. Things seemed to take a turn for the worse, though, while Walt, or should I say Mr. Lambert, was in New Hampshire. While we remain uncertain of the situation with […]

Matthew Tan

St. Evagrius of Pontus and Redeeming Time in Postmodernity

The following is a guest post by Matthew Tan. Matthew is a Lecturer in Theology and Philosophy at Campion College Australia. Currently he is a Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies and a Research Fellow at the Centre for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University in Chicago. Matthew is also the editor of the […]