To be saved means to be in a story where the characters need saving.  That ground-floor reality motivated a generation of theologians and Bible scholars to think of Christianity in…

Christ Actually: The Son of God for a Secular Age By James Carroll 284 pp.  Viking Penguin.  $30.00 James Carroll tells a story of two wars against the Jews, two…

[Correction notice: When Donald sent me this response, he asked that I change “Kenneth Burke” to “Edmund Burke.”  I forgot to do so initially,  but I have done so as…

“To be utterly lost in the woods is unfortunate. To be absolutely unconcerned about it is unreasonable. Yet so many people who spend weeks mastering a new video game, months…

Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church By Scot McKnight 255 pp.  Brazos Press.  $21.99. If the Kingdom is everything, the Kingdom is nothing. That’s the…

Introductions Knowing Why this episode? Definitions of sex-positivism and sex-negativism More on sex-positivism as a movement Reading : http://www.xojane.com/issues/im-a-sex-negative-feminist http://positivists.org/blog/body-and-sex-positivism Chapter Four of Christian Perspectives of Sex and Pornography Passing…

Our fall 2014 semester concludes with Danny Anderson leading Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story.

Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias by Donald Lazere 235 pp. Palgrave Macmillan.  $95.00 Political labels can be funny things.  I know I’m an odd bird in this…

Blaise Pascal was one of those polymaths that only the Enlightenment could have produced. He was one of the sixteenth century’s most important mathematicians, and Pascal’s Triangle alone might have…