Baker Academic’s The Church and Postmodern Culture series will have a new entry in August by Carl Raschke called GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn. The series’ blog has a new post by Raschke to whet our appetities. Here’s a quote that shows that Raschke is doing some interesting thinking about globalization:
In a day-to-day […]
Archive for March, 2008
This has to be one of the more fascinating stories I’ve seen in a long time. New Yorker Julio Diaz gets robbed at knifepoint, and then calls out to his mugger that “If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you […]
As I re-read it for my thesis, I must say that Jack Caputo’s On Religion has to rank among my favorite few books that I’ve read in quite some time. Caputo brilliantly unpacks how Nietzsche’s perspectivism has had some unexpected consequences:
…what no one saw coming was the way the Nietzschean critique undoes the modernist critique of […]
Home is an elusive concept, perhaps only raised by those who feel that they are somehow lacking in it.
Home also tends to be one of those elusive concepts that is never experienced in its presence, only pined for in its absence. Who, while at home, speaks of home?
This perhaps reveals that one aspect of human nature (if […]
He is risen indeed.
About this great mystery, I have not much to say. As I said yesterday, I hesitate to rush too quickly out of Holy Saturday and into Easter Sunday. But if Christ be risen, the whole world has changed and is changing.
For those who struggle with belief in Resurrection on a more intellectual level, I […]
Holy Saturday is generally the most overlooked day in the Passion week. It is the day of groaning, of living between death and life; between Cross and Resurrection.
I have done a very poor job this year of observing anything like a Lenten penitence, of entering into the drama of the God who came in Christ to […]
