…the marketplace required money as a medium of exchange, which functioned as a powerful temptation to greed, and which later Christian theologians catalogued as one of the seven deadly sins….
…majority of people who have trouble with languages and for whom finding employment abroad is quite difficult. Because Latin is dead, a living lingua franca will have to be chosen…
…searching time for Christians on the left. If early signs are any indication – the Berkley riot comes to mind – then the Ying to Trump’s Yang looks set to…
…expression is the only mode under which he can conceive life at all. To him what is dumb is dead. But to Christ it was not so. With a width…
…[7]William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead [1971] (New York: Grove Press, 2007), 165-66. [8]L. Ron Hubbard, “Terra Incognita: The Mind” (1950), The Technical Bulletins of…
…pressure to carry out this month’s executions before the expiration deadline. Last year, the Commonwealth of Virginia passed a law requiring that information about the manufacturers of the drugs used…
…over in one thousand words. On the matter of Ronell, I refer you to Andrea Long Chu’s article in The Chronicle, which, in my opinion, is dead on. What I…
…convinced him that he was “irrevocably condemned to everlasting perdition.” Despairing, the vine dresser reasoned that he and his family would be better off dead as martyrs, assured of salvation,…
…obviously embodied forms as well. A person mourning a loved one is caring for them and their memory – indeed, classical Jewish sources mark caring for a dead body as…
…seems inexplicable. But by attending to their forebears’ understanding of contagion, such defiance becomes clearer. Such discursive threats were seen and understood by nineteenth-century Americans as transmissible and potentially deadly….
…who were murdered/martyed by forces of the French state. We do not see those dead soldiers, and we do not see Javert. (Friends have reported to me that various stage…
…liberationists the goal is not a secular spirituality – some nameless, vague religious feeling – but rather a theology free from the “dead faith of the living” (111). Christian faith…