Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions
(Not recommended.)
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Amid Uncertainty, Eight Things We Know for Sure About the Boston Bombings
As this writing, Boston is under siege, with one bombing suspect killed, and one on the run. But still there is little that is certain about why the attack was carried out.
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Howard Phillips, Founding Father of Religious Right, Has Died
It’s hard to overstate Phillips’ influence on today’s religiously-inflected conservatism.
Read MoreWhen Bad Weeks Happen to Good People
Or maybe it’s not so simple.
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To the Wonder: Terrence Malick’s Mystical Lens
As usual, Malick also provides us with some of the most sympathetic religious figures one sees on the American screen.
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#PrayForBoston: Prayer as a Meme
So far as I can tell, nothing in our language or in our collective practice, digital or otherwise, holds space for such moments of spiritual pause, however secularized that spirituality might be.
Read MoreNeologism of the Week: ‘Tragicglee’
We saw it after Sandy Hook and Kermit Gosnell, and it’ll probably crop up in discussions of Boston.
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The Myth of News Media as Secularist Conspiracy
The notion that the news media is a secularist cabal ignoring stories that challenge its shibboleths is wrongheaded. The media is not sentient and its decisions are not logical. It reacts more than acts, often driven by random factors (What did my husband say over breakfast? Who’s trending on Twitter? When was the last time I read a story about ____?). Equally mistaken is the premise that if there were more believers in the nation’s newsrooms things would be different.
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‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children
This is not just a dancing cat blog.
Read MoreIntensive Care: Preachers’ Daughters Episode Five Recap
This time, it’s the parents who are vulnerable.
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