I can still recall reading Andrew Bacevich’s 2005 article in the Wilson Quarterly, “The Real World War IV.” (Indeed, it was the subject of one of my earliest posts at Fors Clavigera.) It was a significant turning point for me, and articulated a lot of my growing cynicism about what passes for democracy in the…
The Immanent Frame is running their “Summer Reading” feature again this year as part of their “Off the Cuff” series. They poll an interdisciplinary array of scholars about their reading, including both non-fiction on religion, secularity, and public life as well as literature and fiction. You can see my sample here. (This is just a…
How strange. Just last week, while remembering the influence of Clark Pinnock on my theological pilgrimage, I off-handedly remarked that “Donald Bloesch is another figure who actually plays a towering role in my early formation, though I don’t think anybody could know that from the written record.” And now, upon returning from vacation, I just…
I recently received my copies of Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences, the book I co-edited with Amos Yong (published by Indiana University Press). Gathering an interdisciplinary range of scholars from the sciences and humanities, I hope the volume signals a new stage of maturity for Pentecostal scholarship, without that meaning…
OK, this is probably the fruit of a humid Friday afternoon and too much coffee at The Sparrows. It’s also probably completely obnoxious and delusional. But I just found myself sketching out the architecture and content for what could be an iPhone app related to Desiring the Kingdom. (I think I was inspired by Gary…
[Update: My apologies that the original feed listed the dates as 1950-2005; I inadvertently plugged in Grenz’s dates.] Many of us have intellectual debts that never surface, as it were. They are not the sorts of debts that one could track in the footnotes of our work. They are more submerged and subterranean than that….