This Christmas season I had the privilege of attending a memorial service, a vigil in memory of the homeless from our area who had died. Gathered in the early dark of the winter solstice, a group comprised of homeless persons, service providers, and local residents read from a necrology, including twenty names new to the […]
If you are a regular follower of the Mediation blog, I (on behalf of myself, Brian, Thomas, Aaron and Kelly) have to apologize for a slowdown in posts, especially over the Christmas season. In all of the far-flung places we are found across this great continent (from Seattle to Atlanta to Toronto), things have been […]
Of interest to readers might be this CFP for an upcoming issue of Religions on “Theology and Phenomenology.” The following Special Issue will be published in Religions (ISSN 2077-1444, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/). and is now open to receive submissions of full research papers and comprehensive review articles for peer-review and possible publication: Special Issue: Theology and Phenomenology […]
I have recently returned from the Theologians and the Church event that the Centre for Theology and Philosophy hosted at New College, Edinburgh (It was worth the trip just to hear Graham Ward’s plenary). The conference hoped ‘to bring together the next generation of theologians to explore the relationship between academic theology and the worshipping […]
I was recently fortunate enough to be interviewed by the ever so interesting folks down at The Christian Post. This makes two interviews with them in the last few weeks. Yeah, I know . . . I wouldn’t trust me anymore, either. Unlike my previous interview, A Man’s Search for Satan, (kudos to them for […]
This and the following post come from the recent panel discussion hosted by the new Political Theologies Seminar at Marquette University. The seminar is interested in theologies that intersect with contemporary political, social, economic, and cultural life. Participating faculty are Dr. D. Stephen Long and Emeritus Fr. Thomas Hughson and the coordinator is David Horstkoetter. […]
Editor’s Note: If you missed Part One of Ryan Harper’s article, click here. Louise Glück’s call for poets to embrace open-endedness are not new. She writes in the spirit of the great American poets of contingency—Walt Whitman, Charles Olson, and A. R. Ammons, to name a few. Although this tradition resonates with me, historically it […]
Ryan Harper muses on whether evangelicalism as we know it is hospitable to the poetic discipline.
William Cavanaugh responds to Stephen Webb’s critique.
