Game of Thrones and Religious Rationalities
Alyssa Rosenberg makes a smart observation about A Song of Ice and Fire: In fact, the whole series is really about what happens when you try to assert purely rational governance in a world...
Monthly Archive: January 2012
What Is Alterity?
Now that this blog has a new home and some new readers, I account it high time to recapitulate what I mean by alterity and why I choose, at the risk of provoking some...
The Inquisition Impulse
Drawing from contemporary scholarship, historian Cullen Murphy argues that the Inquisition should be understood as a harbinger of modernity rather than as a relic of the medieval world: Here’s the central question: why did...
From Theology to Politics
Over at Vox Nova, my other home in the blogosphere, Mark Gordon raises the idea of a Christian democratic political movement as a potential home for Christians disaffected with the Republican and Democratic parties. ...
Interpreting Faith, Suspiciously
Fellow gentleman Tod Kelly is seeking to learn how he might reconcile his lack of belief with his desire for belief, a journey for which I have much sympathy and fascination. For some time...
As If the League Wasn’t Geeky Enough
My warmest thanks and appreciation to Erik and the League for bringing me on board! I’m ecstatic to be here, but I promise, here and now, not to squee. You can breathe easy, Alex....
