An interview with our own Dr. Boli and his invented alter ego Christopher Bailey. For example: PETE: Dr. Boli, do have any words to describe your relationship with your persona, Chris Bailey? DR. BOLI: What bicentenarian gentleman would not wish to imagine himself, even if only for a moment, . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Tuesday! Here’s what we have for you to read: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott takes a dim view of Marco Rubio, and Peter Lawler expands on the Burke–Strauss conference. What Peter Leithart is reading about: the postmodern Prometheus, Calvin and Zwingli , Luther and . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephen Webb objects to what he describes as my “apophatic” view of the ascension. His objection is that I mishandle the continuity–discontinuity dialectic by denying spatiality or “real place” to the ascended Lord. He might just as well have said that I deny “real . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Driscoll has been living with accusations of plagiarism for the last three weeks. A radio host spotted some suspicious passages in his latest book and asked him to make sure they were properly credited in future editions. Then she found some cut-and-paste passages in another of his works. ( . . . . Continue Reading »
A Heschel Master Class David Wolpe, Tablet Who Is Donna Tartt? Mick Brown, Telegraph Triumph of the Maternalists Nancy McDermott, Spiked A Secular Saint? Erin Wilson, ABC Religion & Ethics The New Old High Churchmen Fr. Jonathan, Conciliar Anglican . . . . Continue Reading »
Advent evokes struggle, the struggle to let in the light and dispel the darkness. Preparing the way of the Lord is not a passive enterprise, but a peregrination to break through the veil with prayers, praises, and lamentations so that the rays of righteousness may peer over the horizon igniting the . . . . Continue Reading »
In Genesis the goodness of creation requires what I have called a logic of otherness , in which dualities that could become divisions or antagonisms are united for the good. The basic structure of this logic is: (1) first one, then the other, (2) the one for the good of the other, and (3) the one . . . . Continue Reading »
That the language of love has become utterly sentimentalized in our society is a commonplace. Once it was a hardheaded, self-sacrificial, outward looking concept which looked to the well-being and needs of others. Now it often means little more than that which makes me feel good or brings personal . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve been asked to say more about the Burke-Strauss conference. Well, I don’t want to give away too many secrets. I will say that the discussion concluded inconclusively, as is appropriate. But I will make some general comments. It does seem that Strauss makes a . . . . Continue Reading »
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