More on the whole Jesus-theme today. Over the past few months I’ve read a couple of books dealing with the Jesus thing – Slavoj Zizek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf and Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith and Revolution: two books coming out of radical secular political traditions that grapple with the meat and potatoes of faith [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Catholicism’
Eagleton, Zizek and Jesus, oh my!
Posted in Academia, Political Stuff, Reading and Writing, tagged Academia, Catholicism, Politics, Reading and Writing, The Left on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Religiously-Speaking
Posted in Misc., Political Stuff, Relationships, tagged Catholicism, Childhood, Community, Family, Identity, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Been on a bit of Jesus thing lately. Thinking about religion, considering the role it plays in our understandings of the world, its function as an ethical code, a yearning for something more, a mark of community boundaries and so on. And generally considering the importance that religious symbols and religious communities have had at [...]
Hospitals and Home
Posted in Family, Misc., tagged Catholicism, Childhood, Family on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was three years old, I chewed my nails. OK, I chewed my nails far past the age of three, and still catch myself doing so occasionally as anxiety-reduction – but at three I chewed my nails excessively. So excessively, in fact, that it damn near killed me. It’s nearing Easter, and the family [...]
Musing on Mom
Posted in Family, Misc., Political Stuff, tagged Catholicism, Childhood, Family on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mother’s Day. I sent the obligatory flowers, will call for a hello at some point. That’s the normal routine. Once again, though, I find the existance of this blog gets me thinking in new ways. I haven’t been especially close to my mom for many years. It’s not a bad relationship, it’s just not a [...]
