Fearless Speech, Courageous Eyes: A Theological Engagement with Freedom of...
In this essay, philosopher James K. A. Smith considers the theological implications of free speech in dialogue with Michel Foucault, cinema verité, and the award winning film, BURMA VJ. This essay was...
View ArticleThough the Earth Give Way: Haiti, Suffering, and the Crucified God
In response to the earthquake’s devastation in Haiti, the church must look to its constitutive story—the cross and resurrection of Jesus—in order to speak and act faithfully in solidarity with those...
View ArticlePure Enough
And if the tribal dialect has yet to be sufficiently restored, and if the pique and pallor of the public discourse yet continues to obscure and to efface without the merest whisper of chagrin, one...
View ArticlePure Enough
And if the tribal dialect has yet to be sufficiently restored, and if the pique and pallor of the public discourse yet continues to obscure and to efface without the merest whisper of chagrin, one...
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Fearless Speech, Courageous Eyes: A Theological Engagement with Freedom of...
Is anything more sacred to democracy than freedom of speech?1 And in our late modern world, is anything more sacred than democracy? Indeed, despite all the laments about the erosion of absolutes and a...
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Though the Earth Give Way: Haiti, Suffering, and the Crucified God
Paradox before the Ruins Jack Gilbert’s poem “A Brief for the Defense” is a haunting meditation on a central contradiction: that profound suffering and extraordinary joy—each apparently unaccountable...
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