As all of you know today is Dress Down Friday, not to mention Halloween. So here’s a little trick and a treat. Twitter Vote is a cool service that will be tracking reactions, responses, problems as well as exciting news from here till after November 4th: Millions of Americans
Continue reading →We live in a culture of increasing secrecy. Despite claims of being the ‘age of information,’ one might goes so far as to say we live in a culture of ‘the secret.’ Not only has there been a flood of recent secular books all pointing to new secrets being discovered
Continue reading →Adam Kotsko’s recent book, iek and Theology, is a great addition to the growing library of commentaries, introductions and appropriations surrounding Slavoj iek‘s philosophical work. It was only recently published in the States by T & T clark and it comes in the series “Philosophy and
Continue reading →I’ve posted the second part to my Barclay Press article on technology and the church, called “Gospel Order and Convergence Culture,” have a look. Here’s a short quote from the post: While technology is a dominating force in our world today Gods reign is not excluded from
Continue reading →Most of you know I have at least some interest in the emerging church and write about it from time to time, or maybe it’s just a guilty-by-association thing. But in either case insofar as these new community’s are ‘missional’ expressions of the church, and exemplify ‘new forms’
Continue reading →Here are a few new books on their way out, or already published, that I want to highlight. The Monstrosity of Christ by Slavoj iek and John Milbank. The book is about secularism, politics and the future of Christianity between two unlikely characters: John Milbank, the main proponent of
Continue reading →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
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →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
Continue reading →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
Continue reading →Here is another edition of Dress Down Friday, complete with stuff on the economic crises and gun-racks for your bikes. Slavoj iek has an article in the London Review of Books this week on the financial crisis called: Dont Just Do Something, Talk. In it he says: Faced
Continue reading →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
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