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Interpreting Sea Change
This has been a rough six weeks for all us progressives living in North Carolina. Back on May 8th, we became the 31st state in the union to restrict the rights of same-sex couples through a...
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Keep Your Hands To Yourself (Especially If They’re Praying…)
Over the past several days, I have seen at least two dozen friends and acquaintances on Facebook and Twitter post a link to this web comic from The Oatmeal entitled “How To Suck at Your Religion.” This...
View ArticleCitizenship, Voting, and the Common Good
A political news junkie in 2008, I now find myself tuning out. I am done with the partisanship and vitriol. I am tired of sorting facts from lies. Perhaps I’ll just sit out this election. After all, I...
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Podcast with Daniel Bell on Capitalism and Desire
(Due to a scheduling error, this is just posting today, but it should have posted on Thursday. Our apologies.) Last November saw the release of the excellent and illuminating (and convicting) book by...
View ArticleFrom London to Durham: A Theological Peregrination
I recently moved from London, a city in which I was born and in which I have lived all my life, to Durham, a city where I am without reference points or roots.1 London has been a key stimulus and...
View ArticleFrom Commodity to Communitas: Reconciling the Gap between Farmers and Roasters
Capitalism Capitalism drives our postindustrial world, and the traces of its presence can be found everywhere.1 Although it was initially theorized primarily as an economic system, capitalism’s...
View ArticleSome Holy Ghost
Stooped behind a smooth pedestal bearing a great stone censer outside the Art Institute of Chicago, I finish my phone conversation shielded from the city’s famous wind. A former classmate and I have...
View ArticleRounding the Curtain: Embracing the Senselessness of Grief
I entered the hospital room. She was sitting in a geri-chair looking out the window. The room was stark white with no flowers or cards. The only punctuation to the white was her robe of pink hearts. I...
View ArticleRunners and Losers
What’s to see? A woman from Norway, a guy from Kenya, and twenty thousand losers. — Jerry Seinfeld on the New York Marathon We prepare in silence. I fill six small bottles, two with Gatorade and four...
View ArticleTheology’s Identity in an Age of Global Crisis: An Interview with Carl Raschke
Few thinkers in the contemporary academy have spanned such a breadth of subject matter as Carl Raschke, professor of religious studies at the University of Denver. Well into his fourth decade of...
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