BY DONALD JUSTICE Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. At rest on a stair landing, They feel it moving Beneath them now like the deck of a ship, Though the swell is gentle. And deep in mirrors They rediscover The face of the…
The Pew Forum’s “U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey” has generated some press and buzz (see the New York Times report, for instance). In response, the folks at Immanent Frame have assembled one of their “off the cuff” features on the survey, “Surveying Religious Knowledge.” It includes brief assessments from an interdisciplinary cast of scholars. You’ll also…
The Other Journal has now posted “Poser Christianity,” my review of McCracken’s Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide. The review goes in a particular direction, because I think McCracken was asking for it. But I should note that there are some points of overlapping concern. For example, I think McCracken is right to see…
I’m continuing to live with David Foster Wallace quite a bit. Following his reflections on the tyranny of irony, consider what he says later in the same essay: “The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic…
Our church newsletter highlighted this wonderful poem, which I’d never read before. As fall’s chill begins to crackle here in Michigan, the warmth in this poem was palpable for me, as is the sense of aged gratitude, delayed but now granted: Those Winter Sundays BY ROBERT HAYDEN Sundays too my father got up earlyand put…
Over at the Leiter Reports blog, there’s been an interesting conversation about where philosophy departments should interview job candidates. Let me sketch a bit of context for those not familiar with the meat market that is the Eastern meeting of the APA: this divisional meeting takes place each year between Christmas and New Year’s, which…