Month: October 2008

  • Dress Down Friday | The Anxious Economy and Proto-Christianity

    Here is another edition of Dress Down Friday, complete with stuff on the economic crises and gun-racks for your bikes.  Slavoj Žižek has an article in the London Review of Books this week on the financial crisis called: Don’t Just Do Something, Talk. In it he says: Faced with a disaster over which we have no real influence, people…

  • The Imagination of Politics – William Cavanaugh’s Theo-Politics

    I’m currently working through Catholic theologian William T. Cavanaugh‘s book ((here is a listing of his bibliographic works), “Theo-Political Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy  as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism,” for a lecture I’m doing later this quarter. I cannot recommend this book enough to those of you who are doing work…

  • A Resource Guide For the Start of the New Quarter

    The fall quarter is now underway for all us Fuller students and so as is customary I thought I’d write up some things relating to school over the course of the next couple posts. First, I wanted to simply highlight some of my articles relating to seminary. Some of these are geared towards offering resources,…

  • Barclay Press: Technology as a Powerful-Practice (Part 1)

    I’ve put together a two-part essay on Technology as Power (or what I’m calling, using James McClendon, a powerful-practice) and the second part which I will publish in two weeks on the Quaker notion of “Gospel order” as a counterpoint to what Henry Jenkins calls participatory culture (think democratization of the web, re: youtube, wikis,…