Author: Kyle Cupp
Storytelling Pet Peeve #1: Being Told How to Feel about a Morally Complex Situation
I began this past weekend with a vitally important task: asking a question on Facebook. Specifically, I inquired into everyone’s pick for the worst movie ever, and by Hephaestus’s hammer did my friends submit...
Echoes on the Road
“For the established universe of discourse bears throughout the marks of the specific modes of domination, organization, and manipulation to which the members of society are subjected. People depend for their living on bosses...
Five Religious Lessons from Final Fantasy
You will forgive me for once again taking a page from the Book of Alex, but when a magnificent trend has been set, what can a man in search of geekdom do but grab...
Film “Judith” Instead of “Noah”
Alex Knapp figures the big-budget movie adaptation of the Noah story will disappoint due to the straightforwardness and unsustainability of the plot, and I’m inclined to agree. The myth of Noah wouldn’t be the...
Religion for Atheists
Ned Resnikoff challenges the supposedly easy path of superficially translating religious ritual and practice into forms that an atheist might find acceptable and beneficial: A fully developed theology is born out of conflict and...
Defining Faith between Theism and Atheism
Eying a discussion hosted by atheist blogger Leah Libresco on whether both theists and atheists can have faith of the same sort, my friend Darwin throws his papist hat into ring, rightly noting that...