Just one more prompt from the CICW Summer Seminars: I’ve put up a first post describing the focus of my seminar, “From Worldview to Worship: The Liturgical Turn in Cultural Theory,” which includes a description and link to the syllabus. Those interested in this conversation will be able to hear from several seminar participants who’ll…
One of the hats I wear is “Research Fellow and Academic Programs Coordinator for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship” (catchy, eh?). In that role, one of the initiatives I’ve launched this summer is a team of bloggers who will be posting from our three seminars that will be happening over the next month. Over…
In Desiring the Kingdom I offer an opening phenomenology of the mall as a temple–a religious, liturgical space whose labyrinthine corridors are lined by tiny chapels devoted to various saints. And those saints, I suggest, are “pictured” not in the flat renditions of stained-glass but in the 3-D icons of mannequins draped in the au…
In Letter XXII of my Letters to a Young Calvinist, I playfully but seriously testify to a conviction regarding bibliographical providence: that some books that I just “happen” to bump into, or have passed on to me, were divine appointments of a sort. There are volumes that have fallen into my lap, and captured my…
Friends and readers now regularly float me tidbits that sort of serve as confirmations and illustrations–or at least case studies–of some of the kinds of claims I made in Desiring the Kingdom regarding cultural formation (like the recent study on the cult-status of Apple for devotees). So I’m going to crowd-source here and feature them…
I’m not usually inclined to agree with Allen Guelzo–but given his contrarian tendencies, agreement would almost constitute failure for him. However, his recent reflections on Christian higher education in Touchstone magazine are worth noting (HT: FT’s Evangel blog). Many will fixate on his critique of quality in these institutions (or lack thereof), as well his…