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Religion for Realists with Professor Sam Perry (Podcast)
Read more: Religion for Realists with Professor Sam Perry (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Sam Perry, who is Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma is the Department of Sociology, and the author of several books, including, most recently, Religion for Realists: Why We All Need the Scientific Study of Religion (with Oxford University Press). In our conversation we…
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Identity & Religious Enmity with Dr. Sam Perry and Dr. Elizabeth Shively (Podcast)
Read more: Identity & Religious Enmity with Dr. Sam Perry and Dr. Elizabeth Shively (Podcast)In this episode we debrief a recent conference on socio-scientific approaches to religious enmity that Dr. Chris Porter organized at Trinity College, Melbourne. For this conversation we are joined by two keynote speakers from the conference: Dr. Sam Perry, who is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, and Dr….
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Decoding Kaepernick: American Idolatry and Settling for Symbols
Read more: Decoding Kaepernick: American Idolatry and Settling for SymbolsSymbols and their usage can be a powerful thing. Within literature, music, and film, symbolism is used to communicate a particular abstract truth by using concrete images. These mediums employ natural objects in order to discuss and explain ideas and truths that resonate deeply with us. Sometimes a symbol can be a building or a…
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“A Reconciled Community…of those Justly Condemned”
Read more: “A Reconciled Community…of those Justly Condemned”In his commentary on Amos, Hans Walter Wolff writes, …Amos with his message of judgement thrusts Israel back among the nations, there appears here a negative print of Pentecost. The wall between God’s people and the nations of the world is already being broken down. The Church will suffer damage if it does not allow…
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Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and a Lunatic: How I Was Reminded to Examine with the Right Lens
Read more: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and a Lunatic: How I Was Reminded to Examine with the Right Lens“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” –Albert Einstein Anders Behring Breivik looks almost ghostly. In every picture that I see of him, he appears serious and menacing and totally unrepentant. This repentance he lacks should be for the murder of seventy-seven people last year when he both detonated a bomb…