Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Devine

I just finished reading Harold Bloom’s Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. I had a hard time putting this extraordinary work of non-fiction down. Bloom’s scholarship is as solid as his writing style. For anyone wanting to think seriously about the origins of religious belief, about the monotheisms that pervade western thought, for those, like [...]

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The Thinking Blogger Award

I am honored to receive the Thinking Blogger Award. I was nominated for this award by A Voice of Reason, a blog I read and contribute to as well. One of the stipulations of receiving this award is to nominate five more sites that get me thinking. So (in no particular order) here goes:

1. [...]

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Always Already Waiting: Teaching the Ethical through Charlotte’s Web

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For the purposes of this post, I define ethics as representing that branch of rigorous thinking that asks questions about human practice and behavior as that practice relates to the good. On this definition, two positions stand out as being at opposite ends of the same continuum. Bakhtin thinks of ethical interactions as being [...]

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