Month: October 2008

  • New Books: The Monstrosity of Christ, Evangelicals and Empire, and Lessig’s Remix

    Here are a few new books on their way out, or already published, that I want to highlight. The Monstrosity of Christ by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank. The book is about secularism, politics and the future of Christianity between two unlikely characters: John Milbank, the main proponent of the academically-heady, yet provocative, ‘Radical Orthodoxy’…

  • Using Wiki’s for Class Collaboration – Fall Quarter 2008

    This year I will be assisting Ryan Bolger (his new website) in his classes again, for the fall quarter we’re doing Church in Mission. Over the last three years I’ve TA’d a number of different classes with him and he’s always doing some really great things with technology and the classroom. Our typical approach has been…

  • About the Nuance of Voting Records

    Ran across this on On Voting Records and I thought it was appropriate for here as well. He begins by offering this little formula “My opponent voted x times for/against y.  X times!” and then writes: No doubt the candidates are uttering such in the debate at this moment.  The problem with this for of rhetoric is that…

  • Quakers Twitter Politics During the Debate

     Just a short announcement: I suggested to my friend Martin Kelley that the online Quaker community (QuakerQuaker) should team up and discuss the presidential debate live over twitter this evening. Kind of like a worldwide, church-wide, discussion on politics in real-time.  Martin asked others what they thought about the prospect of doing something like this,…

  • Younger Evangelicals Weigh in on Abortion and Other Issues

    Once thought to be in the pocket of the Religious Right, many American evangelicals today are discovering a deeper understanding of what it means to be pro-life. Kenny Hiser, communications director from Sojourners sent this article to me that will be their cover article in November, it’s called “The Meaning of ‘Life.’” For the article…