Let Suffering Speak
Critical race theory has become a football in the US culture wars. Here’s what critical theory is about.
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The First Humanist Manifesto: a foundation in conversation
The question became what position the most protesting of Protestants would look like, and . . . there was no general consensus on that theological point. Many thought the logical candidate for the far left was Humanism.
Decolonizing the Mind: The First Step is Knowing You’re Caught
I have loved what are called “the liberal arts” for most of my life. I can truthfully say that I moved from biblical fundamentalism to a lover of literary Modernism in the wink of an eye. I took one look at T.S. Eliot’s poetry and Allen Ginsberg’s poetry and I was hooked on what I saw that could be communicated… Read More »Decolonizing the Mind: The First Step is Knowing You’re Caught
Priests, Prophets, and Process
“ . . . courage shall fail the king and the officials; the priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded” (Jeremiah 4:9 NRSV). I don’t remember how I ran across those lines from the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah, but they ring true—fearful, appalled, astounded . . . kings, officials, priests, prophets. Sounds like the headlines, though prime ministers and presidents… Read More »Priests, Prophets, and Process
Forgetting to Exist
In order to be spiritually and mentally healthy, it is absolutely imperative that each of us not forget to exist.
Going Meta with G.K. Chesterton
We live in stories. We live so deeply and completely in stories that it’s hard to see the narratives that we live inside as narratives. In unexamined life, the stories we have been told and the stories we’ve learned to tell ourselves appear to be “reality.” In order to see the stories for what they are, we have to stop, take a… Read More »Going Meta with G.K. Chesterton
That Certainty Thing
As the sacred center of Greek society, the Temple of Apollo at Delphi has long represented the core of European thought. Everyone in Europe and its many colonies knows the first of the injunctions written on the temple’s wall: γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnōthi seautón, ”know thyself”) Wise and difficult words if ever there were wise and difficult words. And, oh, my,… Read More »That Certainty Thing
Meta and Humanism
Humanism is meta. Meta-religion.
Just Because You Feel It
Religion. It is emotion, all the way down. It is pre-verbal. It is pre-conceptual.
Of Democracy and Division
We hear a great deal about division and decline these days. It all sounds very dire, but what are we actually talking about? When Eurocentric people pontificate about democracy, we do well to take a long look at what is actually being said. Democracy is a good idea, but in practice things haven’t gone as well as we might at first suppose.… Read More »Of Democracy and Division