Surfing the Web: Our Contemporary Visual (il)Literacy
byAt a recent Society for the Study of Theology conference in Manchester, Society President and Professor David Brown stated plainly the kind of grim diagnosis of contemporary…
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American Sniper: Exaggerated Superheroes and the Reality of Violence
byAfter bellowing his famous “Freedom!” cry, William Wallace dies following a gruesome series of physical and emotional tortures. The elderly Private Ryan breaks down…
Books: A Poem by Timothy E.G. Bartel
byBooks There is a feeling just before you read the next book that will fill a blank in your thoughts, or form the…
Salvation by No “Other”: The Disappointment of Interstellar
byThe Nolan Brothers’ movie, Interstellar, is the best science fiction flick I have seen in a long time. It holds together what great science…
Bowing Toward Beauty
byOne of the more subtle assumptions being made today within theology is the belief that anyone who lacks an appreciation for beauty must be in…
Aesthetics as Concealment [and]/or Disclosure
byFollowing up an earlier post, “The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness,” in which I discussed how the imagination might help bring the values of beauty and…
The Gritty Realism of Thomas Hardy
byIt is a commonly held opinion that Thomas Hardy, the prolific Victorian poet and novelist, is a pessimist. This perspective is documented well in a…