Geoffrey Holsclaw

(the first of three, or so, posts coming out of my summer reading of Lev Manovich concerning new media and technology) ___ What if the direction of virtual reality were reversed such that it is not us that enters into a virtual reality, leaving our normal plane of existence, but rather we are always virtual […]

I was brooding over the two different strains of postmodern ethics/politics while walking home from the train station earlier this week, and this is what I came up with conerning the differences b/w the “Other” and the “Same”. From where did these two emphases come, and to which context are they addressed?_______ Sprouting amid the […]

Well, the ekklesia conference has come and gone and with it all the major activities of the summer.   I’m sad and glad about it.  For a run down of all the activities see AKMA’s summaries (who I finally met in person).  Others I met offline for the first time were anthony smith from the Weblog […]

Is any one going to the Ekklesia Conference next week?  If you are could you post a comment letting me know.  We should try to get the Chicago blogger together and at least meet face to face sometime while we are there. 

Who are the people? What is the vision? This is the vision of the Living: The Living see beyond themselves and their own desires. The Living see the basic needs and hopes of others as the same as their own. The Living know that even “dead men walking” can turn away from death toward life. […]

for those interested in willian cavanaugh’s Theopolitical Imagination and/or the creation of the nation-state and the individual, see the discussion over at scandal of particularity.

The entire time I spent in a car last week I listened to Christian radio. Not because I naturally do this, but because I was teaching at a youth camp, and every time we got in a van we started listening to the alternative christian rock radio station. Through spending a week with jr. higher […]

in place of a really post, ill let you know what i’ve been reading and where I’m going. Most importantly is the stimulating conversation stemming from the university without condition. They are reading The Perverse Perseverance of Sovereignty which discusses globalization and the nation-state. Other interesting articles relating this topic which I’m working thru are […]

part one and two are diagnostic; part three is constructive. read in the order you see fit.) Part One: Intro to Problem“No one doubts anymore because faith has been banished! A life of faith has vanished, and with it the ability to doubt.” My primary concern is with discipleship and spiritual formation within the Church, […]

now that i’m finally back, and june is finally over, i hope to start blogging again. I’ve been doing a bunch of reading and thinking, just no writing… so starting tomorrow i’ll begin with my promised post on “the doubtful address of faith” and then move on from there. in the mean time, i’ve changed […]