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A peace speech for september 11th
On September 11th, a Robert Jensen speech at Dissident Voice reminds me how far we have to go for social justice. It requires much more than a policy change or a choice between administrations: * Drop… more →
Flesh & Spirit
The sacrifice to end all sacrifices
Lee wrote 2 days ago: Here’s a very thoughtful post on the Atonement from the fine blog Sub Ratione Dei. I wouldn … more →
The Cross and Violence
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Jason Goroncy wrote 1 week ago: Richard Floyd, author of a wonderful study called When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, and a Forsythian … more →
a peace speech for september 11th
Teresa wrote 4 weeks ago: On September 11th, a Robert Jensen speech at Dissident Voice reminds me how far we have to go for so … more →
The Dark Knight
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Troy Polidori wrote 2 months ago: The Semiotics of Batman The Dark Knight is a semiological masterpiece. Like Umberto Eco’s Th … more →
The Genius of Rene Girard
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violetskye wrote 3 months ago: Girard quipped that “it is not play that envelops the sacred, but the sacred that envelops the not … more →
Fairy-Tale Conversion: Rene Girard's Moment of Revelation
violetskye wrote 3 months ago: “Conversion in death should not seem to us the easy solution but rather an almost miraculous desce … more →
Romantic to the death: the Chivalrous Code of 08
violetskye wrote 3 months ago: Romanticism is popularly synonymous with the term “quixotic,” because the true Romantic is the s … more →
Girard's Empedoclean Love Cosmology: or, fault with Girard?
violetskye wrote 3 months ago: Girard made the interesting statement that “the Pre-Socratics are still fashionable in the world o … more →
Thoughts on the Socially Acceptable Witch Trial: more Girard
violetskye wrote 3 months ago: The stereotypical persecution described by Girard that is found closest to home for many people – … more →
Underdog v. Topdog: Resemblence & Revelation
violetskye wrote 3 months ago: This is a response to The Girard Reader, a collection of Rene Girard’s thought, that I wrote … more →
Glass ceilings in Washington DC, and Wall St.
enzofabioarcangeli wrote 3 months ago: Kiroko Masuike/WpN for The Wall Street Journal Erin Callan, 42, is known for being frank, f … more →
truth comes through the body
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Teresa wrote 5 months ago: Life is a conversation. Disagreement and agreement are ways of conversing. Only when conversation is … more →
energize your faith through questions, not answers
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Teresa wrote 5 months ago: A new author at Cross Left has a post that has helped me frame a contrast I see between my more tr … more →
An end to sacrifices
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Lee wrote 6 months ago: I just finished reading James Alison’s Undergoing God, and the more I read of him the more I l … more →
putting the gross back in church: an invitation to be touched by god
Teresa wrote 6 months ago: Why Flesh & Spirit? On a blog titled Flesh & Spirit, you might expect some thoughts on how r … more →
the sueppel murder: rivalry and redemptive violence
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Teresa wrote 6 months ago: Other posts on the Sueppel murders: revisiting the sueppel murder: append wikipedia the sueppel murd … more →
René Girard and Dutch Islamophobia
Macrina wrote 7 months ago: In a recent article in Thinking Faith, the new(ish) online journal of the British Jesuits, Michael K … more →
The Emergence in Question
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metamoses wrote 7 months ago: So, here’s a theory; the emergent church is a propaganda product. It does not actually exist. … more →
liberal violence and conservative girardians
Teresa wrote 8 months ago: Taking off from the work of Emile Durkheim and Rene Girard, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Revisiti … more →
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