User Feedback Show to Record on January 8
Howdy, podcast listeners and blog readers! Six days from now, on January 8, Michial and Nathan will be recording the first .1 episode of 2013, and our sole…
The Need for Better Categories: An Essay on Hipster Christianity by Brett McCracken
Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide Brett McCracken 247 pp. Baker Books. $15.99. As is usually the case, I’m late to the game on this one. McCracken’s book caused…
Teaching Plato: Still the Best Gig I've Had
As with most things I’ve taught, I had no business teaching Greek philosophy when first I gave it a run. Sure, I had been a double-major in English and humanities…
What my Freshman Comp Students Teach me about Political Philosophy
Every fall, I teach the Honors Freshman Composition class at Emmanuel College, an opportunity that I do not take lightly. In the course of those fifteen weeks we learn together…
Pleasantly Uneven: A Review of A New Evangelical Manifesto for SpeakEasy Bloggers
A New Evangelical Manifesto: A Kingdom Vision of the Common Good Edited by David P. Gushee 240 pp. Chalice Press. $24.99. I’ll go ahead and shoot straight here: when I…
A Guide into Peace: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 9 December 2012
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 9 December 2012 (Second Sunday of Advent, Year C) Baruch 5:1-9 or Malachi 3:1-4 • Luke 1:68-79 • Philippians 1:3-11 • Luke 3:1-6 Perhaps it’s because I’ve been re-reading Walter Brueggemann’s big Theology of…
The Kingdom is Near: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 2 December 2012
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 2 December 2012 (First Sunday of Advent, Year C) Jeremiah 33:14-16 • Psalm 25:1-10 • 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 • Luke 21:25-36 People who know me, in person or…
Witness, Firstborn, King: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 25 November 2012
Revised Common Lectionary Page fr 25 November 2012 (Reign of Christ, Year B) 2 Samuel 23:1-7 and Psalm 132:1-12, (13-18) • Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 and Psalm 93 • Revelation 1:4b-8 • John 18:33-37 First the bad excuse: As some of you…
We've got to win the Great War!
Otherwise, why would we still be doing Daylight Saving Time, right?
Review of "Why Be a Christian" for SpeakEasy Bloggers
Why Be a Christian (if No One Goes to Hell)? By Daniel Meeter 153 pp. Shook Foil. $9.99. Ebook only. Meeter’s was not the first ebook I’ve ever read, but…
Heidegger for Christian Thinkers 4: History and Temporality
Temporality Some people, I realize, think that philosophy is an insidious pastime that makes muddy what was perfectly clear before. I happen to be one of those people who thinks…
Heidegger for Christian Thinkers 3: Death and Resoluteness
Being Towards Death Although Heidegger seldom if ever mentions Thomas Aquinas in Being and Time, the opening section often brings to mind Thomas’s doctrine of analogy and the philosophical problems that…
There's No Such Thing as Clean Hands, and It's a Good Thing, Too
I’m not sure why I’m so slow to leave things, and further I’m not at all convinced that the tendency derives from any particular moral strength. I am convinced that…
Heidegger for Christian Thinkers 2: Morality, Truth, and New Ways to Think about Both
Just to remind folks, I published these essays at another site several years ago, but I figured that rewriting the poorly-written passages and reposting them here might be of some…
The Eye of the Needle: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 14 October 2012
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 14 October 2012 (20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B) Job 23:1-9, 16-17 and Psalm 22:1-15 • Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 and Psalm 90:12-17 • Hebrews 4:12-16 • Mark 10:17-31 Seminary taught me many things…