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- Planning Is a New Variety of the Sin of Pride by The Row Boat on Nov 5, 2009
Jean-Luc Marion wrote, at the opening of his book God without Being, "One must admit that theology, of all writing, certainly causes the greatest pleasure." Today, at the remarkable online journal Triple Canopy, I've got an essay that's about the...
- Reverend Billy, the “Fake Leader” by The Row Boat on Oct 29, 2009
Especially when it comes to religion, the line between reality and performance can be very hard to draw. No one reveals this more than Reverend Billy, a New York-based performance artist who uses a televangelist act to preach against the evils of con...
- Sentimental Repression by The Row Boat on Oct 18, 2009
It has been a welcome relief from the busy romantic adventures of a single fellow in his mid-twenties in New York City, with my cellular phone by happenstance out of commission, to indulge in a reverie of reflection. Its occasion—in addition to the...
- Have You Heard of Rashi? by The Row Boat on Oct 8, 2009
The day my essay, "The Self-Thinking Thought" appeared on the New York Times blog Happy Days, I received a letter that went thusly: I read your blog on Anselm; quite interesting. Your name sounds Jewish, and although you said you are Catholic, do y...
- The Shooting Gallery by The Row Boat on Oct 1, 2009
Once again in the New York Times Happy Days blog, I'm testing myself. Last time, I was testing my faith. This time, it's my trigger finger: I’ve always really liked guns. Growing up, I fantasized about them endlessly, though my parents discouraged...
- The Police Came and Then They Went Away by The Row Boat on Sep 11, 2009
Today is the eighth anniversary of "the events" of September 11, 2001. To commemorate it (them?), I took part in a little pool of essays at the New York Times's Happy Days blog. My contribution is short, repeated here in its entirety: Raised up by p...
- Radio Silence by The Row Boat on Jul 15, 2009
"Hemingway, remarks are not literature." —Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Going off into the wilderness for some unknown days—unknown in length, unknown in content, unknown in consequence—I'm taking the opportunity to wr...
