A useful compendium of stories on animals and saints, focusing primarily on the desert fathers, Gregory’s Dialogs, Irish and Welsh hagiography, the legends of Cuthbert…
Today was the first day of class for my Undergrad Comp Lit course (where I’m doing Marie Lais, a Life of Cuthbert, Voyage of Brendan,…
“Today it is particularly senseless that the meaning of war and its horror–as well, obviously, as its terror–should still be entrusted to the perspective of…
In this several months-long absence, I’ve been plugging away at my book manuscript in hopes of an October submission. I’m ahead of schedule, but getting…
I honestly can’t remember who recommended Adriana Cavarero’s Horrorism to me, so, whoever or whatever you are, thanks for enriching my understanding of violence as…
By now, you’ve probably all seen Obama’s fly-killing prowess. You may have also heard about PETA’s much-mocked response: But now People for the Ethical Treatment…
A young man, disrespectful of institutional religion, is hailed by two women as Jesus. He allows himself to be crucified, wounded in five places. Elsewhere,…
From Salon via, I’m embarrassed to say, Gawker, I learn that Iranian State TV will be broadcasting the whole of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the…
Marc C. Taylor, chairman of the religion department at Columbia University, argues for a networked, postdisciplinary, posttenure post-university academy in an editorial in today’s New…
Here I am again. In anticipation of Kzoo book shopping, I’ve carved out time in the last month to read through chunks of my library:…
