Cosmic Exile: Quitting the Atom

In our first post in this series we considered whether the “Exile as suspicion of Empire” concept can be applied more broadly than just to theology and religion, and I suggested that it can. Further, I then nominated a candidate for the most meta of all metanarratives, the mack-daddy of myths that few today even […]

Unity is Overrated

The 2020 election has been called today for Joe Biden, and already we are hearing Trump supporters and other Republicans lecturing us about unity. John Kasich is warning us about whom the president-elect must consider (and must not consider) for his cabinet, The Independent is urging Biden to pardon his predecessor “for the good of us all,” […]

The Departing Glory from a Rotten Church

Since receiving a set of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s works for Christmas I have been doing some thinking. As you may know, Bonhoeffer was a German theologian executed by the Nazis toward the end of the Second World War, and one of his most important contributions has been his suggestion that what was needed in his own […]