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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

When I saw that the talking heads featured in the DVD series were Marcus Borg and Brian McLaren and Diana Butler-Bass and Matthew Fox, I already had a good idea…

General Introduction – How cold is it? – Michial is froggy – Which one of you is the butler? – A big load of listener feedback – Our devoted lovers…

General Introduction – Nathan reports from Orlando – Finals week – Who suggested this episode? Positing the Essay – Orwell and Huxley – Early and late career – Orwell’s unbelievable…

Perhaps no book in the Hebrew Bible is more disturbing, befuddling, and thought-provoking than The Book of Job. Believers and nonbelievers alike have wrestled like the ideas and emotions put…

A correction   KNOWING With progress comes backlash Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women. New York: Crown, 1991. Print. Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of…

General Introduction – Where’s Nathan? – Recording at night – Listener feedback – On lost causes – A question for Nathan to answer later Situating Munro – Her life and…

General Introduction – A bunch of listener feedback – Nathan defends the dark ages – Is country music rural? – More on metamodernism – Signifying rappers with David Foster Wallace…