Author: Kyle Cupp
Two Embarrassing Episodes
In high school, only one kid sat lower on the social totem pole than I did. He made boogers out of rubber cement and stuck them up his nose. Back then I picked my...
The Assurances of Infallibility
Show me an alleged divinely-revealed truth, and I will show you the operations of religious authority, for there can be no transmission of such truth-claims without some degree of power. Not every religious authority,...
Love Has No Time Constraints
Avery Lynn Canahuati, the five-month-old with spinal muscular atrophy whom I wrote about on Saturday, passed away Monday afternoon due to pulmonary complications. She had been expected to live another 18 months, so her...
Moments in Parenting When You Don’t Know What to Say
When I first held my firstborn son and gazed into his innocent eyes, I knew that the world would corrupt him, so I decided then and there to do everything in my power to...
Narrating a Dying Child’s Life
Avery is the five-month-old daughter of Laura and Mike Canahuati. She suffers from a rare genetic disorder that will take her life in less than two years. In response to learning, on Good Friday...
Echoes on the Road
“Every story is a play of at least three persons (author/actor/addressee) whose outcome is never final. That is why narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetic responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become...
What Does Invoking God Get You in Ethics?
Not much, says Julian Sanchez, and he’s right. Over the past decade, I’ve moved away from religious faith as an explanation for why the universe exists, why it is the way it is, and...
Excremental Deity
In his diary, Evelyn Waugh reminisced about his friend Randolph Churchill’s response to reading the Bible for the very first time: “My God, what a shit God is!” Yeah, I say with a sigh....
