Poetic Faith: The Monkhood of All Believers?
I said last time that the next blog post would be on lived religion. I’d intended for that to incorporate David Hall’s Lived Religion in America (1997), one of the watershed…
Read moreI said last time that the next blog post would be on lived religion. I’d intended for that to incorporate David Hall’s Lived Religion in America (1997), one of the watershed…
Read moreThis week has been very hot and humid in eastern PA, so I’ve been working in Lafayette’s Skillman Library (or, to borrow the great Michael Suarez’s phrasing, the Skillman) instead…
Read moreNow to take a deep breath after Smith’s take on Radical Orthodoxy and continue to a non-theistic, non-teleogical proposal for living in a post-secular world: Jane Bennett’s The Enchantment of…
Read moreOn to James K. A. Smith’s Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology (2004), the first of two posts exploring competing discourses of post-secularism. Smith is a philosopher at Calvin College…
Read moreNearing the end of Week 1 of my “seminar,” I still have a fair amount of reading to do, but I’ve also been happily immersed enough to come up with…
Read moreThe reading is underway, but while I’m still digesting the first few hundred pages, I thought I’d share a bit of background on the Poetic Faith “seminar.” To start with,…
Read moreI am now officially eighteen days into my first sabbatical. The cycles of euphoria, lethargy, manic productivity, and hubristic goal-setting have been rapid and slightly dizzying thus far. When I…
Read moreThis Good Friday, it’s a special privilege to share some of my journey from the past few years on my friend and fellow Westmont alumn Ashley Hales’s blog, Circling the…
Read moreToday marks the end of Women’s History Month, and I’m thinking back today to an event at the beginning of the year when the Rev. Alex(andra) Hendrickson, Lafayette College’s Chaplain…
Read moreSome weeks ago, never mind how many precisely, preparing to teach a seminar on the American Renaissance (US lit c. 1850-1855) and searching for a way to show on day…
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