If you follow the popular polls, you might think that Americans are growing ever more skeptical about man-made climate change — despite the consensus among published climate scientists. That’s simply not true, Jon Krosnick of Stanford University told an audience of social scientists and cognitive researchers Wednesday, in Garrison, N.Y. He maintained that most Americans [...]

“One prays for the preservation of the state, since if, God forbid, it doesn’t remain, then chaos breaks loose, or even worse, the Kingdom of God! That would be the worst thing that could happen.” -Jacob Taubes Theology is always political, whether radical or supporting the status-quo. This past week, I read through Jacob Taubes’ [...]

This update is purely a #humblebrag, but Sunday evening Jack Caputo spoke at Claremont. His lecture on radical theology covered three questions: 1) What is radical theology? (or theology after Hegel) 2) Does God exist? (No… or perhaps) 3) What does it mean to pray to a God that doesn’t exist? Afterwards, a few of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

My reading group is about to dive into Richard Kearney’s Anatheism: Returning to God After God. Amazon’s blurb: Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties [...]

(text should definitely be altered to increase market share) As timing would have it, my friend Bo Sanders just posted on “the last taboo”: Extremely White Male and Incredibly Homophobic. This isn’t really about translating. It’s about foreclosing a discussion. It’s easier to win an argument if you simply rewrite the text being discussed. That [...]

My review of Pete’s latest title Insurrection. This is the lecture Pete Rollins gave at Fuller in October. He explores an existential understanding of atonement based in the death of the big Other. A big thanks to the Brehm Center for making this event happen. Also, Homebrewed Christianity posted a talk from Pete, Barry Taylor, [...]

It’s been an interesting year for religious frenzy over unlikely topics.  I gave a short history of the rapture, in which Harold Camping isn’t the first crazy preacher to sell Americans on the idea that they will not die. I commented on the pseudo-issue of Adam and Eve after an NPR piece.  I finally  wrote [...]