God’s People and Our Sins: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 9 February 2014
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 9 February 2014 (Fifth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A) Isaiah 58:1-9a (9b-12) • Psalm 112:1-9 (10) • 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16) • Matthew 5:13-20 N.T. Wright has taught…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode 5.2: Feminism at the Movies
Author’s Note: Marie’s microphone was being a bit spotty. We’re sorry! Introductions KNOWING A review of the Bechdel Test :http://www.dw.de/sex-violenceand-gender-bias-swedish-cinemas-test-the-bechdel/a-17299348 http://www.slashfilm.com/infographic-movies-that-passed-the-bechdel-test-made-more-money-in-2013/ It’s about representation. Objections to the test More representation…
Brueggeblog 7: Mediation and Dispute and Authority
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy God-Verbs The Gospel of Plurality Theological Dialectics My Creatio ex Nihilo Copout First to the Jews, then to the Nations Mediation and Dispute and Authority It’s All…
The Notes Are There: A Review of Resurrection City by Peter Goodwin Heltzel for SpeakEasy Bloggers
Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation. by Mark Goodwin Heltzel 200 pp. Eerdmans. 25.00. I was never a great saxophone player, but I was about as good as one could…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #124: Pulp Fiction
…Oh, I’m sorry. Did I break your concentration? General Introduction – We’re all here! – The Polar Vortex – Listener feedback and a caveat Pulp Autobiography – Encountering the parody…
The Foolishness of God: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 2 February 2014
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 2 February 2014 (Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A) Micah 6:1-8 • Psalm 15 • 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 • Matthew 5:1-12 Language can certainly be a strange phenomenon sometimes. In…
One Christ: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 26 January 2014
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 26 January 2014 (Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C) Isaiah 9:1-4 • Psalm 27:1, 4-9 • 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 • Matthew 4:12-23 I’ll go ahead and lead with a confession:…
BrueggeBlog 6: First to the Jews, then to the Nations
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy Okay, so I left a bit of a gap between posts 5 and 6. Sorry about that. For the sake of those…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode 5.1: Feminists on TV
Introductions Knowing What we talk about when we talk about pop culture Reading Parks and Recreation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test http://tigerbeatdown.com/2010/03/24/13-ways-of-looking-at-liz-lemon/ Female friendship and mentorship are important The work/life balance Leslie and Ben…
On Teaching Comedy Badly
I’ll admit right out front that my problem might have more to do with my inadequacies than with the nature of literary genre, but try as I might, I keep…
What Are You Seeking?: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 19 January 2014
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 19 January 2014 (Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A) Isaiah 49:1-7 • Psalm 40:1-11 • 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 • John 1:29-42 First of all, so that nobody has to say…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 4: Mariology
Introductions, a welcome, and an apology Knowing Mary as theotokos Lots of theologians have talked about her role So have lots of feminists Mary’s feast days make this discussion a…
Christian Humanist Profiles, Episode #5: Honoring the Question
One of the persistent heroes of philosophically minded folks is Socrates, the godfatherof question-askers, the Athenian philosopher, the drinker of hemlock. Although the Platonic dialogues never present him as entirely averse…
Nietzsche, Friend of Thinking Christians
As I said on our “God Is Dead?” podcast episode, I encountered Nietzsche via his famous sound-bite as a high school student. I had no idea that his literary output…
Late to the Party: A Response to Bo Sanders
Doing Theology in the 21st Century. or why Aquinas is a footnote Bo Sanders is a friend of The Christian Humanist and a friend of mine, and if he’s ever…