The Best Thing Ever!
On YouTube, anyway. “Baby Got Back” in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan: (H/T: The Darwins)
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Gospel Power Plays
Richard Beck of Experimental Theology reads Jesus’s statement “Call no man on earth father” as an attack upon patriarchal power structures and upon power plays in general: So the issue isn’t really about gender,...
The Supreme Court Should Assess the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act
First, let me say that I have no moral objection to the Affordable Care Act mandate that I purchase health insurance coverage. It’s not my ideal method of ensuring universal healthcare, but it’s one...
Philosophy as a Culture War
The other day, philosopher Santiago Zabala chose to honor the late Hans-Georg Gadamer by rallying his troops in the philosophy world’s version of the culture war: In this decade since Gadamer’s death, hermeneutics has...
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...
