…listen to Antsy McLain’s Trailer Park Troubadours’ song, “I Was Just Flipped Off By a Silver-Haired Old Lady with a ‘Honk if you love Jesus’ Sticker on the Bumper of Her Car” (click on the audio link for the song title.)
OK, OK: some readers took the time to point out to me that Hitchens’ God is Not Great has indeed received some mainstream press (which I hadn’t seen yet since I’d been in England). But Michael Kinsley’s review in the New York Times borders on being sychophantic, and certainly lets Hitchens’ off the hook. (Kinsley…
I think Christopher Hitchens must have serious debts to pay. Why, otherwise, would he be spending so much time and energy “slumming” it with a no-name like Douglas Wilson or ‘debating’ someone like Marvin Olasky (editor of the embarassing newsweekly World)? I guess since the mainstream press hasn’t really paid attention to God Is Not…
Kudos to the New York Times for trying to tackle theology with Larry Rohter’s story today about the Pope’s visit to Brazil (just a month after a major New York Times Magazine article on Benedict XVI). However, the story is an indication of how hard it is to appreciate the nuance of theological debate in…
I previously announced a lecture by Jeff Sharlet at Calvin College on “Fundamentalist History, Secular Myth, and the Media’s God Problem.” Audio of that lecture is now available via the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship (with thanks to Dale Williams). Sharlet’s talk was entertaining, informative, and disturbing. Enjoy!
For the past several months Calvin College, my home institution, has been very intentionally planning for a visit from the SoulForce “Equality Riders”–a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Christian students who, in the spirit of the civil rights “Freedom Riders,” planned a road trip to visit Christian college campuses and raise awareness about…