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Enough Already: The Anti-Atheist Article Shows Its Age
Michael Robbins, writing for Slate Magazine, recently contributed to that most robust literary genre, the anti-atheist op-ed, with a review of Nick Spencer’s Atheists: The Origin of the Species....
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Conversation Enders: The Problem with Hero-Worship
Working part-time at a local bookstore is a great reprieve from the isolation of my studies. Just as I get to know many customers’ personal lives, so too have many of them learned that I’m a doctoral...
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Excerpts from the Day’s Readings: Auguste Comte and Slippery Mental Frameworks
I’ve been sitting on a more reflective post, but the long slog of daily readings persists, along with a few other inanities of doctoral student life, so that essay will have to wait awhile. For now I’m...
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An Irish Black Comedy on Strange, Everyday Faith
Calvary John Michael McDonagh Reprisal Films It shouldn’t surprise people that a film about religious belief might fascinate an atheist, but this fact often does. Billions of people espouse belief in...
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Disingenuous Critique: John Gray’s Review of Richard Dawkins
I almost wonder why I’m bothering to write a response to John Gray’s New Republic review of Richard Dawkins’ An Appetite for Wonder: The Makings of a Scientist. I am a strong opponent of hero-worship,...
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Ecce Corda Illorum: K. D. Miller’s Deeply Human Stories of Faith
I’ve read K.D. Miller’s All Saints twice this year–a queer thing for a doctoral candidate to do, laden with all-too-many other books to read. Nonetheless, this little collection of linked stories out...
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On the 2015 Hugos, and the Promise of Fantasy and SciFi
In the last week, the Islamic State took control of 90% of a Palestinian refugee district in Damascus, Syria, worsening an already dire situation for some 18,000 human beings trapped within. Meanwhile,...
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Last night something spooked the little animal by my side. When it happened, I felt her claws tense over the blanket; saw the prick of her ears against the apartment’s softer shadows; knew the sudden...
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The Scattered Self: Seven Notes from a Strange Month
1 Lately I keep coming back to a Peter Handke poem, one perhaps best known to North Americans through Wings of Desire (1987). Als das Kind Kind war / wußte es nicht, daß es Kind war, comes as gentle a...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Superheros
I promised myself I’d wait to watch Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Major critical reviews were scathing, but many graphic-novel fans wildly adored Zach Snyder’s latest, and I wanted to review...
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