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...
off the cuff
The contraception mandate
by Finbarr Curtis, Mark Hulsether, Derek E. Karchner, Daniel Maguire, Kathleen Sands and Kevin M. Schultz...here because the Church now insists that it has jurisdiction over the consciences of non-Catholics, which is a long way from earlier defenses of American Catholic freedom. Yet many conservative...
off the cuff
Reflections on summer reading
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Courtney Bender, Jason C. Bivins, Tracy Fessenden, David Kyuman Kim, Pamela Klassen, Patrick Lee Miller, James K. A. Smith, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and John Torpey...articulate a “post-fundamentalist” identity in the face of conservative attacks and liberal indifference. It begins with a discussion of Carnell’s death from an overdose of sleeping pills, including the details...
"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...religion has not been absent from politics over the last twenty years. Because the majority of black South Africans identify as Christian, churches frequently attract the attention of ANC leaders,...
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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