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The quest for the happy meal
Here’s a look at the lengths people are going to to get humanely-raised meat. Mostly I want to applaud this, but at the same time I continue to have this nagging feeling that there’s something incongruous about going to such lengths to treat animals well in order to kill and eat them.
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“Making God’s kingdom real”
Matthew Yglesias, pointing to this post by Alexia Kelley at the TPM Cafe discussion of E. J. Dionne’s Souled Out (see my previous post), says that it exhibits “a side of the ‘religious left’ that strikes me as a bit creepy and illiberal.” I’m not sure I’d go that far, but it does employ a…
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“A refuge from insignificance”
For those for whom life means action, the world is a stage on which to enact their dreams. Over the past few hundred years, at least in Europe, religion has waned, but we have not become less obsessed with imprinting a human meaning on things. A thin secular idealism has become the dominant attitude to…
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Directing traffic between science and theology
The other day I asserted that Christian theology still hasn’t fully absorbed the insights of Darwinism, even where it claims to have accepted them. This Christian Century article provides a good overview of some attempts to do just that. I think there are two issues that stand out as particular challenges for theology here: the…
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Dionne on faith and politics
I’ve always liked E. J. Dionne’s work, and there was a good interview with him on NPR (listen here) this morning about his new book Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right. Here’s an article he recently published at Commonweal. Dionne’s earlier book Why Americans Hate Politics is a great overview of…
