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CJ Chanco talks to Marc H. Ellis
Ellis teaching a class in the late 1970s. by CJ Chanco Marc Ellis has written over two dozen texts on the themes of justice, reconciliation, peace and conflict in Latin America and the Middle East. He...
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London gave him debate…
Giordano Bruno, Ettore Ferrari, 1889 by Ed Simon If you had found planets circling one of the fixed stars, there among Bruno’s infinities I had already prepared my prison shackles, that is, my exile...
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Ed Simon on the Whiskey Rebellion
by Ed Simon Herman Husband – itinerant preacher, politician, regulator, radical – would amble among the woods surrounding Pittsburgh. Here on the trans-Appalachian frontier, the native North...
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Ed Simon on Denis Johnson
by Ed Simon Sinners always make the greatest Christian writers. Last month we lost one of the greatest of modern Christian writers, who was also a self-declared “criminal hedonist.” Denis Johnson was...
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Joe Linker: The Body of Christ and Body Politic
The Time Machine, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1960 by Joe Linker Worshiping Politics: Problems and Practices for a Public Faith, by Luke J. Goble, Cascade Books, 240 pp. In one of the early scenes of H. G....
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Ed Simon: Final Twelve Observations about Goodness
by Ed Simon XXV. Who would have expected the origin to have been with a castration? A consummately violent act. Hacking away at flesh, and the discarding of that bit of intrinsic manhood. But Origen...
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A Bulwark Never Failing by Ed Simon
Miranda—The Tempest, John William Waterhouse, 1916. by Ed Simon But I suppose even God was born too late to trust the old religion – all those settings out that never left the ground, beginning in...
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Poetry before the Fall by Ed Simon
The Casting of the Rebel Angels into Hell, William Blake, 1808 by Ed Simon Spare a thought of pity for the person who has looked at the warmth of the sun and not seen him smiling, espied the...
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Anthony in the Desert, and Other Mirages
The Torment of Saint Anthony, Michelangelo, c.1487–1488 by Ed Simon Does the boundless solitude of the desert terrify you? In the spirit you may walk always in paradise. —Saint Jerome The desert is...
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Trump and America’s Evil by Ed Simon
From engraving of “London”, by William Blake, The Songs of Experience, 1794 by Ed Simon First Moloch, horrid king, besmear’d with blood/Of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears…Their children’s cries...
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Ed Simon: Breaking the Third Commandment
The Vision After the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel), Paul Gauguin, 1888 by Ed Simon Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that...
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Ed Simon: Jesus Shat
Caganer via Wikimedia Commons (cc) by Ed Simon For every second of time was the strait gate through which the messiah might enter. —Walter Benjamin, “Thesis on the Philosophy of History” As an Advent...
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Ed Simon: Another Man’s System
Standing male worshiper from the Tel Asmar hoard, circa 2900 –2600 B.C. via Met Museum /Wikimedia Commons (cc) by Ed Simon Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer. (If God did not exist, it...
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In these days of solitude and waiting…
Statue of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Hamburg, Germany. via Flickr/KeokiSeu (cc) by Stephen R. Haynes Why did 13 people make their way to my campus on a dreary February evening in 2020 for a new class I...
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Ed Simon: The Hidden Lightbulb
Photograph by Stefan Krause via Wikimedia Commons (cc) by Ed Simon Behind the neo-classical façade of London’s Tate Gallery in Milbank, all grey stone and Corinthian columned, its pediment topped with...
View ArticleFrom ‘At the Grave of Teilhard de Chardin’ by Daniel Tobin
Let the inhabitants of the rock sing… Isaiah, 42:1 (Current) In this river’s perpetual haste I am already always arrived, always already departed, the constant wanderer among the hosts of different...
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Is God a cosmologist?
NASA Hubble Space Telescope: Hubble Revisits the Veil Nebula, 2021 (CC) by Helge Kragh Through most of human history, cosmology and religion have been closely intertwined, and such was still the case...
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Douglas Penick: Truthiness
John Vanderlyn, Caius Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage, 1807 (detail) by Douglas Penick A vital modern principle was first and most famously articulated by the early Christian theologian, Tertullian....
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God =
William Blake, The Ancient of Days, 1794 (CC) From Scientific American: Who would have thought about God as an apt topic for an essay about mathematics? Don’t worry, the following discussion is still...
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