Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Clam chowder, clerihews, and Cardinal Newman: The best from my browsing this week

Here are some of the best of my recent browsings:

Scott Carson at An Examined Life laments the return of the right to intellectual darkness in his insightful post The Rightward Turn.

Pastor John Castricum shares the recipe for his award-winning clam chowder  at Reflections of a Reformed Pastor.

Halden Doerge over at Inhabitatio Dei gets a lively discussion going on the question: Is there a postliberal theological project?

For those word nerds among you who actually know what a clerihew is, Kim Fabricius has a funny post at Faith and Theology called Poetic Graffiti: clerihews on ten modern Christian poets.

The quick-changing world of information technology is highlighted in a post at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab about how the magazine Foreign Policy is e-publishing (through Amazon) a book about Afganhistan by war journalist Anna Badkhen, comprised of her daily dispatches.

A thoughtful piece appeared in the Christian Science Monitor on the Pope Benedict XVI’s beatification of John Henry Newman. They quote my friend Gabe Fackre, “The heart of ecumenism [or interfaith work] is when each tradition brings its own gifts to the other.” Newman, Fackre argues, was known for the idea that theological ideas have a “trajectory” in which “you don’t abandon the teachings but let them flower – the ordination of women might be an example. It is a very supple concept of doctrine that is a long way from Benedict, who seems to rigidify doctrine.”

1 comment:

  1. Hi, I am from Australia.

    Please find some references which are thoroughly "post liberal", and which have nothing whatsoever to do with so called theology.

    http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-god.aspx

    http://www.beezone.com/up/secretsofkingdomofgod.html

    http://www.beezone.com/news.html

    http://www.adidaupclose.org/FAQs/postmodernism2.html

    http://www.adidam.org/teaching/17_companions/great_tradition

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