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...
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Presbyterians split on gay-friendly measure
by Jake AlterA vote before the Presbyterian Church’s (U.S.A.) General Assembly in Minneapolis this past Thursday allows gays in a committed relationship to serve in the clergy, but limits the definition of...
Is this all there is
Swinging between enough and not enough
by Jonathan Schorsch
...individuals as well as collectives (as articulated, for instance, in J. K. Gibson-Graham’s book, A Postcapitalist Politics).3J. K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006). And see...
Uprising in Egypt
Space and resistance
by Farha Ghannam
...the number of protesters in the square increase until, on Sunday, February 6, it was estimated to have reached two million. For thousands of Egyptians, the square became the place...
Political Theology
The political theology of freedom and unfreedom
by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo...the Crown to the Union, and not derived from the Constitution. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 [1936]). The exclusion of these genealogies of sovereignty is surprising...
"These things are old"
Not an end, but a beginning
by William Ayers...their friends, they had spent the weekends of the past year phone-banking and canvassing for Barack Obama in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana. He had called me a week before to...
Religion and digital culture
When readers respond
by Tanya Marie Luhrmann...sit on the floor, gripping the phone, throat tight with distress. “I have this habit,” a young woman explained to me over the phone in a conversation about demons: “I...
A Universe of Terms
spirit
by Paul Christopher Johnson
...Spirit possession. Spirit Airlines. Holy Spirit. Espírito Santo, Brazil. “Whoa, spirit / Watch the heavens open (yeah) / Spirit, can you hear it callin’?” sings Beyoncé. Karl Marx: We are...