Poetic Faith: Embodied Reading
The blog has been a bit quiet lately. The reading has been a bit less intense as well. This is because reading is not merely a mental activity. It is…
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 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…
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