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The Presumptive Podcast: Episode 6.1
Episode 6.1: “Immigration and Identity.” After a summer hiatus, the podcast returns with guest Ryan Hennesy to discuss race, immigration, identity, and otherness. (Originally recorded June 2010) Call us and tell us what you think! 903-Hug-iPod (903-484-4763)
Glenn Beck and the 8/28 Rally
I don’t have a lot of time to write, but I want to take a few minutes to deconstruct the Glenn Beck Rally on 8/28/10. 1) Beck misappropriated a Black experience and a significant part of Black history. By holding his rally on the date and location of the March on Washington and by deliberately [...]
Holiness and Civil Religion: The Ground Zero Mosque
There’s something especially insidious in the debate surrounding the Park51 mosque and community center (AKA the Ground Zero Mosque) in Lower Manhattan. An unhealthy fervor has taken hold of politicians, some in the media, and the general public. Specifically, I take issue the idea that Muslims should not build a religious and cultural center on [...]
The Virgin Mary and the Trinity
I’m reading Jurgen Moltmann’s “Sun of Righteousness, Arise” (thorough review coming), and there’s one quote that is excellent and exciting to think through. “C.G. Jung rightly discovered in many pictures of that Trinity a ‘fourth person’ in the Virgin Mary, but wrongly turned this into the archetype of a ‘quaternity’. In fact Mary is really [...]
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