Jacques Berlinerblau, on The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Brainstorm blog, enumerates some of the prevalent misconceptions that inform what he calls “Pop Atheism”: 1) That the term “atheist” has a...
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Reverence for words
by Nathan SchneiderAt First Things, Stefan McDaniel takes a stand against blogging: Someone recently encouraged me to write more, because “words aren’t lifeblood. Words are cheap.” Words are certainly held cheap, and...
"These things are old"
Obama as public theologian: Old wine in new wineskins
by Ronald F. Thiemann...nation. Lincoln eschews both cheap theodicy and false hope with this sophisticated employment of theological reasoning. Although comparisons between Obama and Lincoln are surely overstated—our current president has not yet...
books
Love is an orientation
by Nathan Schneider...a genuine commitment to justice and equality, Marin’s proposal of simple love may appear as a cheap substitute for costly solidarity. On the other hand, for those gay Christians, like...
Essays
Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections
by Rachel C. Schneider...available hubs of cheap labour to keep labour intensive industries going for the benefit of the few. Let it be known across the breath and length of this country that...
Is this all there is
Agnostic front of the aging boomer
by Ron Kassimir
...would ever expect to get. I almost sighed in relief when the true believer showed up, glad this was not just another cheap shot via what Newman himself calls his...
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
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Summer reading: Part I
by Colin Jager, Simon During, John R. Bowen, Kathryn Lofton and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...secularization. As is being in Turkey. Cheap stories of modernity seem somehow ridiculous when considered in the context of good fiction and the complex realities of contemporary Turkey. First, Rose...