The Row Boat
Blog URL http://www.therowboat.com
Located Brooklyn, New York USA
Tags religion, science, evolution, christianity, catholicism, nonviolence, peace
A weblog of speculation, experience, and the study of religion.
Latest Blog Posts
- Life After Past Evil on Nov 13, 2009 in Posts conversation ethics violence war
In the last several decades, there have been numerous—and largely unprecedented—efforts around the world to develop and enact protocols for what to do in the wake of conflict and horror. From Nuremberg, to South Africa, to Guatemala, different mo...
- Religion Returns to Montreal on Nov 11, 2009 in Posts celebrity economy secularism tourism
"Bonjour, hello," I'm told, finally reaching the front of the long line at the convention center cafe. It's Montreal. I can say "bonjour," at least. Wouldn't that be polite? But that could invite an incomprehensible flurry of Quebecois French, which...
- The Gospel of Contradiction on Nov 9, 2009 in Posts books conversation memory writing
Today at Religion Dispatches, I have an interview with novelist and memoirist Mary Gordon about her latest book, Reading Jesus. There are calls on the right and left—both in different ways—for more religious literacy. Are you, like those, urging...
- The Life and Death of the Death of God on Nov 6, 2009 in Posts double truth existence of God
There's a whole subculture of people who, when the newspaper arrives, go straight for the obituaries. Well, now they've got their own, quite excellent literary website: Obit. All death, all the time. I've got a new essay there on the "death of God" t...
- Planning Is a New Variety of the Sin of Pride on Nov 5, 2009 in Posts algorithms becoming conversation evolution imagination metaphor secularism technology writing
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...
- Beautiful Dreamers on Nov 5, 2009 in Posts celebrity conversation existence of God orientalism tourism
Today at Religion Dispatches, I've got a review of the forthcoming documentary Oh My God. Filmmaker Peter Rodger goes on a sophomoric quest to talk with actors and other people all over the world about what God means to them. But the images are just...
- Harvey Cox and the Future of Faith on Oct 30, 2009 in Posts books conversation empathy generation language new religious movements
I mentioned Harvey Cox, the Harvard theologian best-known for his 1960s book The Secular City, in my recent Guardian piece on "death of God" theology. Today, at The Immanent Frame, I have an interview with him about his recent retirement ceremony, th...
