A Thinking Reed

I’ve found that of all the process theologians I’ve read, Marjorie Suchocki is the best at applying process categories and concepts in a meaningful way that avoids much of the forbidding technical jargon. He short book In God’s Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer is a good example of this. Suchocki applies a “process-relational” understanding of…

May 20, 2012

Beastie Boys, “An Open Letter to NYC”

I didn’t properly observe the passing of Adam “MCA” Yauch on this blog, so in lieu of the usual Friday metal, here’s a clip from the Beasties’ “To the 5 Boroughs” album:

May 18, 2012

Prong, “Revenge…Best Served Cold”

From their new album “Carved into Stone,” which is great.

May 11, 2012

Do the evolution

As everyone not living under a rock now knows, in an interview with ABC yesterday, President Obama–who recently had said that his views were “evolving”–announced that he now supports the right of same-sex couples to get married. Some liberal critics complained that Obama’s announcement does nothing to change the status quo, with marriage still being…

May 10, 2012

A dime’s worth of difference, 2012 edition

If you follow writers associated with what I’ll broadly call the “disaffected Left,” you’d be forgiven for thinking that there are few if any substantive differences between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Both, we’re told, are content with the corporate plutocracy, support a hawkish foreign policy and an ever-expanding surveillance state, are open to making…

May 8, 2012

Torche, “Kicking”

Insanely catchy and fun. As is the whole album.

May 4, 2012

Evolution and “making God the author of evil”

I’ve argued before that the question of a “historical” Adam and Eve and the related question of a “historical” Fall is not a “gospel issue.” That is to say, universal human sinfulness is such a self-evident fact that the question of its origin is secondary. The gospel speaks to this phenomenon of universal sinfulness with…

May 2, 2012

Living Colour, “Leave It Alone”

Vernon Reid, still amazing.

April 27, 2012