An obscure, slow-motion war is being waged over C. S. Lewis. Was he a more or less secret foe of Darwin and a proto-advocate of Intelligent Design, long before that school of thought named itself? Or was he a champion compatibilitist, serenely accepting the validity of modern biology and finding it no ill fit with […]
[N]ot that I think this deserves any kind of explanation…–‘The Disco Before The Breakdown’ Being a long time fan of Against Me!, I’ve tried to follow all of the comments, articles, zines, interviews, etc., discussing Tom Gabel’s “transformation” to Laura Jane Grace. Suffering from what has been labelled ‘gender dysphoria’ (perhaps something of a misnomer […]
“We still want what we want,” says 28 year old billionaire Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson). “We want a haircut.” The initial phrase doesn’t come off as a tautology, but a comically nightmarish declaration from an individual referring to himself in the first person plural. “We” don’t want anything in particular for itself, but all things […]
Here’s a CFP that may be of interest to some of our readers. NOTE: the deadline for submission is coming soon!!! February 15. Apologies for the short notice. Conference Statement The liturgy is said to contain, transmit, and partake in the central mysteries of the Christian faith. It plays a crucial and indispensable role in […]
This review examines Crystal Downing’s Changing Signs of Truth, which successfully applies semiotics, an often arcane and inaccessible academic discipline, to the practical theological task of understanding the relationship between Christian faith and culture.
‘Sup. Yeah. I just said, ”Sup’. Okay, so, in the past few weeks I’ve received a number of books for review, general edification, a place to rest my head, something to throw at my enemies, blahblahblah, and because it’s taking me forever and more to get to all of them, I wanted to at least […]
A Review of Jacques Rancière’s Mute Speech Jerilyn Sambrooke “There are some questions we dare no longer pose.” Jacques Rancière, Mute Speech Jacques Rancière’s bold challenge opens Mute Speech (1998), one of his most rigorous works on aesthetics, only just recently published in English (2011). In this opening claim, Rancière echoes the famous, elusive question […]
In “Manifestation,” the poet Tania Runyan encounters prayer as something that hooks her “like a dendrite branch,” its movements slow, deliberate, and intimate.
In the past few months I have started to ponder what increasingly strikes me as an emergent crisis of our own discourse as postmodern thinkers. What I have to say is probably going to offend a lot of people, but hopefully it will be taken as a genial offense, i.e., one that provokes soul-searching and […]