I’ve been in a big-time Southern mood of late. Spending quality time with the folks in NC while I work some theatre gigs is bringing the ‘Southerness’ out of me. So, that ‘durn’ is for you mom. I still contend your Nazarene pastor thinks it’s a swear word (you better not be dancing or doing […]
The first volume of our three volume set in The Peaceable Kingdom Series is almost ready for release (June 1st, now make sure you check out that link for a suh-weet website). Below is a short review from the fine people at Publisher’s Weekly (note, this time I refer to them as ‘fine’ as opposed […]
Tobias Winright, PhD (University of Notre Dame) is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the coauthor of After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice as well as the editor of Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment. He is also a […]
Dystopian novels—stories of the future going badly wrong—have apparently now surpassed the vampire and fantasy genres in the young adult fiction market. The books, and the phenomenon of their popularity, have provoked numerous discussions online, in schools, and in the sort of serious, adult magazines that teenagers don’t read. (We know this, of course, only […]
Led by Professor of Christian Ethics, Amy Laura Hall, a number of Duke Divinity students decided to give a little “toast” to those fine men and women at my lovely Alma mater (Go Duke!) who have found themselves worthy, in a time of great economic downfall, of bonuses. And I don’t mean a ‘wee’ Christmas […]
Amy Laura Hall is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke University. She has written a number of books including the soon to be classic, Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and The Spirit of Reproduction. She also raises holy hell like nobody’s business. For this reason, it’s time for “Five Questions” with Amy Laura Hall. 1) […]