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 morePoetic Faith, Week Two: Practice, Practice, Practice (Theory)
This 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 morePost-secularism 2: Enchantment (long) after Weber
Now 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 morePost-secularism 1: Radical Orthodoxy
On 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 morePoetic Faith: We Have Never Been Secular
Nearing 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 morePoetic Faith: A Brief Prologue
The 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 moreThe Poetic Faith “Seminar”: An Introduction
I 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 moreDescent Into Resurrection
This 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 moreWomen Making History…Including My History
Today 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 moreFerguson and Astor Place; or, the Rondo of this Fall
Some 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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