It’s quite surprising to me how often I think of John Updike. Though he was not the writer of “my” generation, he became my cherished stylist–a bit of a guilty pleasure, I know, given how baroque, flowery, and lubricious his sentences can be (but then again, I also can’t get over Thomas Wolfe). I should…
Word on the street is that physical copies of Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy will be available in less than two weeks! Copies will be available at a book signing following my public lecture at Regent College in Vancouver on June 30. (It’s currently available to pre-order at Amazon.) Those looking for…
The Chronicle offers a brief review of Beth Luey’s new book, Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge (University of Massachusetts Press) which considers the successful “popularizing” ventures of scholars like Stephen Jay Gould, Elaine Pagels, and E.O. Wilson. (I might add, more recently in theology, Janet Soskice). Contesting the impression of…
You haven’t been able to buy any new music for months. Every single one of the 3000 songs on your iPod sounds flat and boring and you’re languishing in the ennui of a tired playlist (57 channels and nothin’ on). So you click on “Genius” in iTunes, or toodle over to Pandora, with the hopes…
Last week I had the opportunity to respond to Shirl Hoffman, author of Good Game, when he gave a plenary presentation at the annual meeting of the Christian Society for Kinesiology and Leisure Studies. I’ve been extolling the virtues of Good Game to anyone who will listen, so it was a treat to meet Shirl…
I think we’re seeing an interesting phenomenon in theology as a generation of “digital natives” begin to emerge in the theological academy. Most of us who have published in the field, and I would think the majority of tenured professors, are “digital immigrants”: we’ve grown along with digital technologies, but we can still remember a…