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Vocal Silence
Michel Anteby’s Manufacturing Morals is an “ethnography” of the Harvard Business School. It’s an odd book, very insight-the-HBS,…
Traumatic Neighbors
In his contribution to The Neighbor, Zizek offers this typically contrarian, typically extreme, description of the impact of…
A Story That Is Only About Greece
Some years ago, I saw the following skit on Greek television. All the political events and personalities…
Gratitude according to Barth
Someone asked me recently if my Gratitude includes a section on Barth. It doesn’t, and I’m sure this is…
Literary Facts
Stephen Geller opens an essay on blood in “P” by stating that he is treating the Pentateuch…
In Praise of Dead Poets
Over at The Guardian, Miranda Threlfall-Holmes has been writing a series on the poetry of George Herbert.…
Giving Up the Bible for Lent
On this, the first day of Lent, I was dismayed to find this message from a Christian…
Anti #ashtag
When the famous Ellen DeGeneres Oscar selfie appeared on my Facebook wall on Mardi Gras, modified with…
Good Thing Nobody Had a Smartphone at the Last Supper
On Twitter this morning, the Huff Post seeks your Ash Wednesday Selfies: HuffPost Religion@HuffPostRelig Will you…
First Links — 3.5.14
‘Compossibility’ and Religious Freedom Bryan T. McGraw, Federalist The Francis Option for French Catholics Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, American…
Ready to Tie It Off
Episode Seven of HBO’s True Detective depicts our chastened heroes in a chastened style. Gone is the…
These Bones Shall Live
Three white leopards open the second movement of T. S. Eliot’s Ash-Wednesday. What they are supposed to represent…
How We Live Now
The whole of Marcia Angell’s review of Alison Wolf’s The XX Factor is worth careful reading. It’s a…
Ockhamist Modernity
Suppose you’re walking to church to worship God. Along the way, your motive changes from piety to…
Obsessed with Sex?
Are Christians obsessed with sex? Yes we are, and for good reason.
