Purgatory 2013: How to Get out of Purgatory (Cantos 18-24)
It’s fitting that my Dante posts stalled out right when it was time to write about sloth, no? Good Desire and Bad Desire In Canto 18 Virgil continues his explanation…
Purgatory 2013: Free Will and Wrath (Cantos 14-17)
The Architecture of Purgatory This section of Cantos begins to reveal connections between the terraces, both in terms of the media through which the tragic and exemplary stories come to…
A Vision of the Kingdom: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 21 April 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 21 April 2013 (4th Sunday of Easter, Year C) Acts 9:36-43 • Psalm 23 • Revelation 7:9-17 • John 10:22-30 I’ve taught Revelation, in its entirety, four times in the last…
50 Books for Aspiring Seminarians
I’ve often told people who aspire to graduate school in Biblical studies or theology that an English major might just serve them better than a Bachelor’s degree in ministry. Most…
Purgatory 2013: Art, Education, and Purgatory (Cantos 10-13)
Finally entering Purgatory, our pilgrim gets into some of the coolest parts of the poem, those passages that start to form both a theology of desire and a theological account…
Purgatory 2013: To the Gates of Purgatory (Cantos 5-9)
One reason that I can teach Purgatorio without the other two is because of its slow start. Since the poem is a third done when the Pilgrim finally gets into…
Purgatory 2013: Like a Florentiner out of Hell (Cantos 1-4)
Because I’ve not written about Dante in a couple summers (in 2011 I was wrapping up the dissertation, and in 2012 I was wrapping up Emmanuel’s QEP), I wanted to…
Damascus Road: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 14 April 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 14 April 2013 (3rd Week of Easter, Year C) Acts 9:1-6, (7-20) • Psalm 30 • Revelation 5:11-14 • John 21:1-19 I suppose I could blame my own blindness with regards…
I have seen the Lord: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 31 March 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 31 March 2013 (Easter Sunday, Year C) Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 65:17-25 • Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 • 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 or Acts 10:34-43 • John 20:1-18 or Luke 24:1-12 Some of you might have suspected that I…
CHP is on Stitcher!
For those of you who want to try our podcast through different channels, The Christian Humanist Podcast now streams through Stitcher. Use the widget below to get to our…
No Lectionary Post this Week
Because I (foolishly) scheduled two classes’ worth of draft-revisions this week, I’ll be holding off on Lectionary posts until next Monday. In the meantime, you can get other Lectionary posts…
Revisiting the Colony: A Brief Treatment of Resident Aliens for Gus Cole-Kroll and Friends
So January started to wrap up, and I got the notification: Gus Cole-Kroll, podcast listener and Christian Humanist friend, had called on me, along with Tripp Fuller of Homebrewed Christianity…
Review of Evolution's Purpose for SpeakEasy Bloggers
Evolution’s Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins by Steve McIntosh 260 pp. Selectbooks. $24.95. More than anything else, this book reminds me that philosophy and…
Beyond the Wilderness: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 17 February 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 17 February 2013 (First Sunday of Lent, Year C) Deuteronomy 26:1-11 • Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 • Romans 10:8b-13 • Luke 4:1-13 I tend to make much of the parallels between Moses…