Journeys in Alterity

The Pope’s Subversive Encyclical?

The Pope’s Subversive Encyclical?

Over at Vox Nova, I note an interesting subtlety in the pope’s new encyclical letter, which compares faith to both light and darkness and to both seeing and not seeing.

Vagrant Story

Vagrant Story

You can read about my pick for the best video game ever over on the front page.

The Finest School

The Finest School

“I was graduated from the finest school, which is that of the love between a parent and a child. Though the world is constructed to serve glory, success, and strength, one loves one’s parents...

Liberty as Domination

Liberty as Domination

“Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree...

Virtue and Sexism in Purity Culture

Virtue and Sexism in Purity Culture

One Sunday during the years of my adolescence I attended the morning worship service all by my lonesome. I forget the reason why. I sat down in a pew to the left of the...

Questioning Faith

Questioning Faith

(Cross-posted on the Front Page) Asking questions is dangerous business.  I have friends and acquaintances who, after completing an inquisition into their own religious beliefs, forsook their religion, kicked the dust from their feet,...

Deconstructing the Afterlife

Deconstructing the Afterlife

As I get older, watching family, friends and strangers pass into the unknown, I think more about death and my own passage into it.  The more I contemplate this eventuality, the less satisfied I...

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