It don't mean a think if it ain't got that link
Yet another critique of the twenty-first century English department Humorously condensed literary classics. Good life advice: Stop giving a hundred percent!
Liberal Theology Makes Me Want to Go Catholic: A Review of Kissing Fish for Speakeasy Bloggers
Kissing Fish: Christianity for People who Don’t Like Christianity by Roger Wolsey 393 pp. Xlibris. $19.99 Certain books stand out in my mind less as conversation partners and more as…
Postliberal and Progressive: A Primer from a Postliberal English Teacher
Lately a number of conversations around the God-bl0g-o-sphere have caught my attention, and all of them seem to take their impetus from the notion that theologians in the twenty-first century…
How Should We Then Live?: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 4 September 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 4 September 2011 (12th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 12:1-14 and Psalm 149 • Ezekiel 33:7-11 and Psalm 119:33-40 • Romans 13:8-14 • Matthew 18:15-20 That I…
Programming as a Liberal Art: A Review of Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff 154 pp. Soft Skull Press. $14.95 To explain how I came across this book, I have to…
History, Prophecy, Mystery, Name: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 28 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 28 August 2011 (Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 3:1-15 and Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b • Jeremiah 15:15-21 and Psalm 26:1-8 • Romans 12:9-21 • Matthew 16:21-28…
Negative Dia-link-tics
The art exhibit that marks… wait for it… the end of postmodernism (let’s see if this draws out the Emergent crowd…) James K.A. Smith on the problems with contemporary academic…
Feminism, Positivism, and Which One Excludes
“Why Be Religious?” at Feministe Recently Victoria (who’s married to one of the better Christian Humanists) sent me the link above, noting that reading the post and the following…
The perfect age…
Happy Birthday to CHP guest host and little brother Ryan Gilmour today! He’s reached the age that Thomas Aquinas regarded as perfect.
One Reality, Not Two: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 21 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 21 August 2011 (Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 1:8-2:10 and Psalm 124 • Isaiah 51:1-6 and Psalm 138 • Romans 12:1-8 • Matthew 16:13-20 I hate to admit it, but as much as…
Linkle, Linkle, Little Star
The utter moral bankruptcy of national academic conferences Some tidbits from Barth on relationships between Scripture and theology Some facile, relativistic tidbits on pop music in the twenty-first century Some…
So I finally read Francis Schaeffer…
I don’t keep count of how many times people recommend books to me (I never have the presence of mind to start the count on the first instance, and three…
A Theophany and a Revolution: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 7 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 7 August 2011 (8th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 and Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, 45b • 1 Kings 19:9-18 and Psalm 85:8-13 • Romans…
The Complicated Fall of Post-Charismatic Evangelicalism: A Review of Quitting Church by Julia Duin
Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and Waht to Do About it by Julia Duin 180 pp. Baker Academic, $12.99 What makes books by journalists so fun is that,…
The Rhetoric of Repentance: A Review of Telling God's Story
Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation by John W. Wright 164 pp. $19.00 IVP Academic I actually became aware of this book while reading Stan Hauerwas’s Working with…