Tad DeLay Philosophy & Theology

In 2005, the UN designated January 27th, the day Auschwitz was liberated, as a day of remembrance. Nobel Laureate (1986) Elie Wiesel, whose book Night (among 56 other books) remains not only a priceless recollection of the genocide in the camps but also an inspiration to theologians on theodicy, recounts the experience in this piece [...]

Indiana is moving forward with legislation that would allow public schools to teach Creationism in public schools. And they aren’t the only ones. Huffington Post has the report alongside surveys on teaching creationism/evolution in the classroom: About 60 percent of high school biology teachers teach evolution in the classroom without taking a direct stance on [...]

Slavoj Zizek has been hinting at a book on Hegel for forever now. It seems like it about to happen. From Zizek’s new Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadows of Dialectical Materialism : “You know what Einstein did in his relativity theory? He started with curved space as the effect of matter. So, let [...]

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Update: Pete is also speaking in the Fayettville area this Sunday (Jan. 29th).  Click here for details. ——————————————- For my friends in the Little Rock/Conway area, just a heads up that philosopher Pete Rollins is speaking at UCA a week from today (Jan. 31st). I posted his recent lecture here at Fuller and a review [...]

They’ll eat you children too, if you aren’t careful.   From Tony Jones: What do you get when you mix a bunch of YouTube videos, interviews with a few ultra-conservative Christians, and some scary Danny Elfmann knock-off music? This: Share this:FacebookDiggRedditStumbleUpon

from Richard Kearney’s Anatheism: ‎”God is revealed après coup, in the wake of the encounter, in the trace of his passing.” (p. 22) “…interconfessional hospitality toward other faiths is not just an option for Christians but an imperative.  Christian caritas, as a refusal of exclusivist power, is a summons to endless kenosis.” (p. 55) “the [...]

I’m beginning to read through material for an upcoming class on American fundamentalism taught by George Marsden, who is the guru on this topic. I used some of his work in a previous study on fundamentalism, and I’m pretty excited to further wrap my mind around this phenomenon. One of our class texts is The [...]

Should progressives and liberals cut relations with more conservative and traditional Christians? If you think the answer is a clear and obvious “no,” you aren’t paying attention to the debate going on in the ivory towers of academic theology. On an excellent recent post by Bo Sanders, “Extremely White Male and Incredibly Homophobic,” Bo Eberle [...]

So glad someone made this. Could have also included something about TEDtalks, deconstruction, and cigars Share this:FacebookDiggRedditStumbleUpon