Those in the Pacific Northwest might be interested in this year’s Faith, Film, and Justice conference organized by the good folks at The Other Journal. This is an annual event that hosts the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival. The conference includes keynotes by theologians, ethicists and activists (including, this year, Kelly Johnson, Emmanuel Katongole,…
Two noted “worldviewists” (?) have recently responded to Eric Miller’s review of Desiring the Kingdom. In letters to Christianity Today, Arthur Holmes and David Naugle both reply. Holmes’ response misses the mark, largely because he assumes that reading Miller’s brief review is somehow sufficient to know what I actually say. One might have hoped that,…
Oliver Sacks NYRB piece, “The Lost Virtues of the Asylum” (which will appear as the Introduction to Christopher Payne’s photographic essay, Asylum: The Closed World of State Mental Hospitals) concretizes contemporary issues in political theology, particularly concerning the shape and effects of rights-talk. Without romanticizing madness or the asylum, Sacks nonetheless reminds us of the…
KTIS radio, out of Northwestern College in St. Paul, MN, recently interviewed me about my new book, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation. I hope it’s an accessible conversation that helps folks get a sense of the argument and analysis in the book. You can listen to the interview online here.
Well, after some (admittedly long) delays, I’ve just sent off the completed manuscript for my next book, Thinking in Tongues: Outline of a Pentecostal Philosophy. This will be one of the first volumes in a new series, “Pentecostal Manifestos,” published by Eerdmans. (Concurrently appearing will be a monograph by Frank Macchia on justification. I think…
“The Return of the Native,” Adam Gopnik’s report on Michael Ignatieff is, for me, a kind of literary perfect storm in which a swirl of my own interests coalesce: a cultural critic like Gopnik (an old favorite), talking about a Canadian political philosopher (who has risen to leadership of the Liberal Party in Canada) who…