Wednesday Philosophical Query: Cannibalism Edition
The cannibal almost always plays the role of radical other in popular imagination: he or she is a super-creepy sociopath, a monster such as a witch or a wendigo, or a savage not fit...
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God: The Decider
Popular theologian and preacher John Piper, a Calvinistic Baptist, professes image of God that I call “The Decider.” Here’s Piper, playing defense for his genocidal deity: It’s right for God to slaughter women and...
Echoes on the Road
“What seems to me to be constitutive of the religious is, therefore, the fact of crediting a word, in accordance with a certain code and within the limits of a certain canon. I would...
On Being a Critical, Suspicious Son of the Church
Much to Tom Van Dyke’s seemingly apparent confusion, I take a harshly critical stance toward the mitre-wearing powers that be who run the Roman Catholic Church, the institutional faith to which I belong. As...
Undercover Ethics
Several readers of yesterday’s post–on the topic of lying to expose some truth–raised the practice of undercover investigations as a counter example to my thesis, asking if I would consider undercover work unethical for...
Deceiving for Your Truth
Two recent news stories caught my eye for the same reason: both are about instances of the increasingly popular phenomenon of undercover activists deceiving their targets in order to expose some alleged truth about...
Symbolic Riches: A Review of ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’
As not a few critics have remarked, Snow White and the Huntsman suffers from having a commercial director at its helm: Rupert Sanders, in his feature debut, doesn’t organize the story as tightly and...
God Isn’t Here
Thunder, wind, and hail woke us up about 3:00 am last night. At the kind command of my wife, I got out of bed, stumbled downstairs, and got online to check for any tornado...
Spotify Challenge for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fans
I need your help, friends, with putting together a Spotify playlist of thirty-three tracks from science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, or otherwise otherworldly films, television shows, and video games. Please leave suggestions in the...
