Category: Politics
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Five Iron Frenzy – Until This Shakes Apart » Album Review
Read more: Five Iron Frenzy – Until This Shakes Apart » Album ReviewThere comes a point where you know you are getting old, which was hammered home to me recently when it was revealed that apparently “ska has been uncool forever.” I remember the 90s, and forever seems a little bit longer than that. However, when your favourite band of the late 90s has now reformed twice…
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Single Issue Voting Revisited
Read more: Single Issue Voting RevisitedFriday January 22 marked the 48th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. It’s kind of a confusing (and sad) fact, because for all of the conservative presidents that have been voted into office and for all of the conservative justices that have been appointed to the Supreme Court by those elected presidents, not much has changed….
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Fake News & Misinformation with Rachel Wightman (Podcast)
Read more: Fake News & Misinformation with Rachel Wightman (Podcast)Concluding our series on the intersection of faith and politics we turn to address fake news and the spread of misinformation. In this episode Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Dr. Chris Porter are joined by Rachel Wightman, who is Associate Director for Instruction and Outreach at the library at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota….
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Abortion & Single Issue Voting with Jennie Riley (Podcast)
Read more: Abortion & Single Issue Voting with Jennie Riley (Podcast)As another installment in our series on faith and politics, we discuss abortion and single issue voting in the United States. Joining Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Brandon Hurlbert, Tim McNutt, and Dr. Chris Porter for this discussion is our special guest, Jennie Riley, who recently submitted her PhD thesis in Theology at Durham University (England),…
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Watchmen & 2020 Politics with Matthew William Brake (Podcast)
Read more: Watchmen & 2020 Politics with Matthew William Brake (Podcast)In the run up to Election Day in the United States (Tuesday, November 3rd), here at The Two Cities we’ve been doing a series of political podcasts. This episode extends that conversation further, but situates it as part of a conversation with a major pop-cultural artifact—Watchmen. Originally a comic series in the mid-1980s, Watchmen is…
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Social Identity & Political Discourse (Podcast)
Read more: Social Identity & Political Discourse (Podcast)Continuing further our recent conversations on politics and political engagement from a Christian perspective (cf. the episodes entitled, “Faith and Politics with Rev. Baroness Maeve Sherlock” and “War & Political Theology with Michael Spalione”), Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Dr. Chris Porter discuss social identity theory and how our social identity shapes our present lack…
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War & Political Theology with Michael Spalione (Podcast)
Read more: War & Political Theology with Michael Spalione (Podcast)Continuing our conversation on the role of faith in our political discourse and political engagement, in the present episode Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Brandon Hurlbert talk with Michael Spalione about his doctoral research on the topic of war within political theology. Having just recently passed his viva in pursuit of a PhD in political…
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Faith and Politics with Rev. Baroness Maeve Sherlock (Podcast)
Read more: Faith and Politics with Rev. Baroness Maeve Sherlock (Podcast)In this tumultuous election season in the States, in which partisan entrenchment often leads to a lack of kindness and respect across the aisle, we have brought in a guest from across the pond to help sort us out. Joining Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Brandon Hurlbert is special guest Rev. Baroness Maeve Sherlock, who…
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Not Another Post About Refugees: Why Christians Can’t Seem to Get Along
Read more: Not Another Post About Refugees: Why Christians Can’t Seem to Get AlongI got married the day after Trump’s inauguration, and ironically, boarded a cruise ship to Mexico for an awesome honeymoon. I got back and was shocked to hear about everything that had happened in a week. What was even more shocking (sort of) was how much discord there was between Christians. Facebook itself looked like…
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Angelology, Political Division, and a Criticism of Friendship
Read more: Angelology, Political Division, and a Criticism of FriendshipDuring my sophomore year of college, I looked up the entry in a theological dictionary on “angelology.” It suggested that we know very little about angels, and that the best places to get acquainted with the theology of angels were Augustine’s City of God, Anselm’s Why God Became Man, and select writings from Pseudo-Dionysius. That…