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Where have I been? I’ve been locked in mortal combat with an evil companion know as the GRE. The ferious encounter is over, and now I am nursing my wounds. Someday so I will raise up again, stricking the keyboard with brilliant posts.

This is the first time in my life where I have been following an election season, and might even vote. Actually I was going to not vote even thought I was voting b/c I’m voting for the Green Party here in Illinios (esp. Rich Whitney for Govenor). But now it seems that Whitney is gaining […]

This is a very interesting and hopeful article from the NYTimes: Meat Labels Hope to Lure the Sensitive Carnivore . It talks about the trend toward labelling products “organic,” “free-range,” “animal compassionate,” and “certified humane” in order to attract the more conscientious consumer. The article notes two different consumers toward whom these labels might be […]

I just posted an engagement with Pete Rollin’s How (Not) to Speak of God. After an appreciative summary of Pete’s argument in Part One of How (Not) to Speak of God, I offer an immanent critique (a critique internal to his presuppositions) of his project. After this I outline what I see as a continuation […]

So, about 2 minutes ago, I’m sitting in Panera, about to work on a little essay I’m writing for churchandpomo.org. A man approaches me and asks me if I can help him with his computer. It keeps freezing on me. After trying for a bit to help him (which I can’t because all I know […]

Yikes! it has been an entire month and I haven’t posted anything. Well, I’ve studying for the GRE which is stressing me out. and our church, life on the vine, has been entering into a process of finding another pastor (actually two pastors), so while this is great for our church, it has taken a […]

Given my continuing interesting in Badiou and his relevance to political and theological inquiry, here is an extended summary of his understanding of the event, truth, and subjectivity,. Below is part of a larger project contrasting recent pragmatist understandings of ‘social objectivity’ with Badiou’s ‘political subjectivity’. But below is just the parts concerning Badiou on […]

This is my summary of Badiou’s “The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself” found in his Manifesto for Philosophy. As you will see, there are many similarities as well as divergences with American pragmatism, of which I had earlier hinted. — This essay is laid out in a series of thesis/propositions. But we will not engage all […]

I just saw this over at fast company: Geo-Coupons Land On Google Maps. I think all the new map software is pretty interesting, but I’m wondering about its effects on culture. For one, it continues to reduce the world and put everything on a grid. In this sense, of course, map making is the epitome […]

This is a summary and my response to a article over at first things brought to my attention at GO Thinktank, where I originally posted this. summary: Reno begins with a distinction between foundationalism and anti-foundationalism, with modernity championing the former and postmodernity the latter. Reno asks, Against the appeal of postmodern thought and its […]