Geoffrey Holsclaw

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 […]

So in my readers i find saddleback all over the place: from rick warren’s list of how not to be sexually tempted (via the revealer) to a mash up over at fast company, comparing the purpose driven church and tribal knowledge. interesting, no?

I will be over at C&P (the church and postmodern culture conversation). We are beginning our engagement with james k.a. smith’s new “who’s afriad of postmodernism?“ So I won’t be posting much for a little bit. but come join us. It should be interesting.

I’ll just jump right into Oneself as Another to explain R.’s reading of Levinas, and an approach to pragmatism and political versions of phychoanalysis. The basic thesis, explored through the many detours of ‘sematics,’ ‘action theory,’ ‘narrative temporality of the self,’ and ‘moral/ethical obligations,’ is that “the selfhood of oneself implies otherness to such an […]