Monthly Archive: January 2012

What Is Alterity?

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

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

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. ...

As If the League Wasn’t Geeky Enough

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....

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