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Moby-Dick as Anti-Bible

In a review of Robert Alter’s Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible , Adam Kirsch explains how Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was influenced by the KJV while being a sort of anti-Bible: The irony is that Melville uses these biblical tropes in constructing a book that is a . . . . Continue Reading »

Roethlisberger and the Rules

If you really want to have your sensibilities twisted up in a knot, try listening to sports talk radio when the topic of discussion is some player’s malfeasance. The current version of that particular play has to do with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s treatment of a . . . . Continue Reading »

Taking It to the Streets

Mark Chaves , professor of sociology at Duke University and director of the National Congregations Study, has this interesting chart detailing how broadly defined Christian groups engage politically. (Full disclosure: Mark and I went to high school together. In fact, I was briefly a really bad . . . . Continue Reading »

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