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The Series
1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation
2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story
3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc.
At the beginning of the academic school year in September I began a series of posts looking at the interplay of Christian spirituality and postmodernity using the book Who’s Afraid of […]

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After I left three years of full-time ministry I worked a stint for Nordstrom, a department store known for their Yearly and Half-Yearly sales, in addition to their high-end merchandise. One of the interesting things about working at this Nordstrom is that it is located in the richest, most diverse county in the country: Fairfax […]

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As I have begun (re)wrestling with truth and knowing, and especially how I know and “truth” within our postmodern, post-Christian world, I found renewed comfort that we can in fact know, because God has revealed. I wrote this post over two years ago during a similar “crisis of knowing.” I hope it comforts you […]

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The Series
1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation
2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story
3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc.
“I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” -Jean-Francois Lyotard
This is the famous saying by Jean-Francois Lyotard that has caused much heartburn among professing Christians for its seeming rejection of “big stories.” While postmodernism […]

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The Series
1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation
2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story
3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc.
Since I am feeling all academic while being on the cusp of a 3-year seminary season, I thought I would begin blogging through one of my my brand-spanking new seminary books called “Who’s […]

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One of my favorite publications is a little, indy magazine called Adbusters. It is also the name of the alt.org that campaigns against consumerism, capitalism, pro-Americanism, war, poverty, globalization, environmental destruction, and other issues it sees as destroying our world and society. Sure it’s got a lefty, crunchy, hippie, alt, disestablishmentarian feel to it, but […]

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