I just finished reading Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. On the whole, it wasn’t as bad as some responses have made it out to be, which is hardly surprising given the topic that he tackles. Much of the book was a disturbing tour through the dark side of religion, one that should disturb any religious […]
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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 […]
Memes never cease to find their way around the blogosphere, and they sometimes even land in my lap. Kathy tagged me with the 123 book meme, which quite simply means that I should:
Pick up the book nearest you. Find page 123. Find the first five sentences. Post the next 3 sentences.Tag five people.
I have a distinct unique […]
The newest issue of Global Spiral is dedicated to engaging with John D. Caputo’s terrific little book What Would Jesus Deconstruct? I’ll definitely be reading these articles over the next few days.
There’s lots of talk floating about about consumerism being a great evil that needs to be subverted and overthrown. What there is much less of is intelligent discussion of what consumerism actually is, and particularly what it is that drives it and sustains it. In that vein, I’m reading The Rebel Sell (which is now […]
For any who are interested in this Philip Pullman - Christianity conflict (I’m not sure that I am anymore), Christianity Today put up a an article called The Chronicles of Atheism. It’s written by a film critic (not a philosopher or theologian), which engages the thoughts and controversies fairly evenly, even if I thought that […]
