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Glasgow, the stoning of Stephen and a lack of theological imaginationDoug Gay, a colleague who teaches Practical Theology at University of Glasgow, recently posted a citation on his Facebook page from Alastair Gray’s stunning 1981 novel Lanark that gave voice to much of what I been wrestling with for the past two weeks. For those not familiar with Lanark, it is reminiscent of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses with echoes of … There’s more to read here.
Posted in Alastair Grey, belief, Bible, books, church, culture, economics, facebook, Glasgow, Jesus, Lanark, missional, theology
Tagged Alastair Grey, Bible, books, church, economics, existential musings, facebook, Lanark, literature, theology
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Žižek and Belief- why does God have to be so far away?As some of you on Facebook might know, I am now at a conference in Oxford where I presented a paper on continental theorist Slavoj Žižek. For some, the name Žižek is unknown and yet in the philosophical community he is causing vibrant conversations that both infuriate and enliven debates on, well, just about everything. My interest with Žižek is that as a leading Leftist theorist he seems to be … There’s more to read here.
Posted in belief, culture, economics, ethics, existential musings, faith, Žižek
Tagged church, existential musings, Philosophy, theology, Zizek
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10 resolutions for ‘twenty-ten’ from ‘Freedom of the Self’ – make this decade selfless and self-full rather than selfishIn my new book – Freedom of the Self: Kenosis, Cultural Identity and Mission at the Crossroads – I outline an argument to move away from the posture of consumerism and into what I call “the Kenotic Self” based on Philippians 2:5-11. In the book I track the forgotten path of the Kenotic self in philosophy dating back to Aristotle and Augustine through to Derrida, Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion and … There’s more to read here.
Posted in church, economics, ethics, existential musings, Jesus, pastoral vocation, sociology
Tagged Bible, books, Continential Philosophy, economics, existential musings, Freedom of the Self, Jesus, theology
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The ‘oughts’: a decade embracing the ‘cloud’, the ‘Long tail’ and the end of the CD eraWith the end of a decade comes the flood of lists – best movies, best CDs, biggest changes of the decade, man and women of the decade. etc. Pundits are racing to label this first decade of the 21st century – depending on whether you are a glass half empty person or glass half full, you could say that this has been the decade (00) of the ‘naughts’ or the … There’s more to read here. Manhood after Tiger Woods – caught between ‘Wild at Heart’ and ‘Slacker’In a recent article by Tom Matlack in the Huffington Post entitled “Tiger Woods and the State of Modern Manhood”, Matlack zeros in on this latest account of fallen sports icons as an accounting for what he sees as the demise of manhood in America. As he surmises in the article:
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downsizing for the long haul – the way of the peregrineOrganizational guru and motivational speaker Steven Covey challenges individuals to “work to live, not live to work”. Catchy aphorism to be sure, but hard to live out. I just finished teaching a class in the MBA program at SPU that caused me to do some thinking on the issue of how and why people choose the work that they do. A student in my class last night – the last … There’s more to read here. economic malaise – on teaching ‘business as stewardship’One of the things I enjoy about summer is the opportunity to move theological discussions into the realm of other disciplines. For the last two years I have taught in both the MBA program in the School of Business and the MA program in the School of Education. Both of these groups represent populations that don’t typically get framed as ‘theological disciplines’ in the purest sense of the word, yet … There’s more to read here.
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