History, Prophecy, Mystery, Name: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 28 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 28 August 2011 (Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 3:1-15 and Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b • Jeremiah 15:15-21 and Psalm 26:1-8 • Romans 12:9-21 • Matthew 16:21-28…
Negative Dia-link-tics
The art exhibit that marks… wait for it… the end of postmodernism (let’s see if this draws out the Emergent crowd…) James K.A. Smith on the problems with contemporary academic…
Feminism, Positivism, and Which One Excludes
“Why Be Religious?” at Feministe Recently Victoria (who’s married to one of the better Christian Humanists) sent me the link above, noting that reading the post and the following…
The perfect age…
Happy Birthday to CHP guest host and little brother Ryan Gilmour today! He’s reached the age that Thomas Aquinas regarded as perfect.
One Reality, Not Two: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 21 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 21 August 2011 (Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 1:8-2:10 and Psalm 124 • Isaiah 51:1-6 and Psalm 138 • Romans 12:1-8 • Matthew 16:13-20 I hate to admit it, but as much as…
Linkle, Linkle, Little Star
The utter moral bankruptcy of national academic conferences Some tidbits from Barth on relationships between Scripture and theology Some facile, relativistic tidbits on pop music in the twenty-first century Some…
The Ant and the River: Horace on Virtue and Natural Law
There’s a game Christian intellectuals sometimes play regarding ancient philosophers. “If he had lived 400 years later,” the question goes, “would Plato (or Aristotle, or Euripides, or Cicero, or Confucius,…
So I finally read Francis Schaeffer…
I don’t keep count of how many times people recommend books to me (I never have the presence of mind to start the count on the first instance, and three…
To Every Link There Is a Time and a Season
Is the contemporary American novel written in vernacular English? A Londoner visits Atlanta (and has several nice things to say about it!) What’s Harold Bloom’s favorite book of the Bible?…
A Theophany and a Revolution: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 7 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 7 August 2011 (8th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 and Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, 45b • 1 Kings 19:9-18 and Psalm 85:8-13 • Romans…
On the Link of Something
The closed-mindedness of liberal academia. New York Magazine profiles The King’s College. Saying good-bye to John Stott.
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #52: Theological Dramatics
General Introduction – What’s wrong with the blog? – Our shame in the face of The Pietist Schoolman – The perils of Internet celebrity – Working on our Night Cheese…
Book Review: "Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus"
The outline for Greil Marcus’s approach to analyzing Bob Dylan in his latest book, the aptly titled Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, can be found in two pieces. The first…
The Complicated Fall of Post-Charismatic Evangelicalism: A Review of Quitting Church by Julia Duin
Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and Waht to Do About it by Julia Duin 180 pp. Baker Academic, $12.99 What makes books by journalists so fun is that,…
The Rhetoric of Repentance: A Review of Telling God's Story
Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation by John W. Wright 164 pp. $19.00 IVP Academic I actually became aware of this book while reading Stan Hauerwas’s Working with…