Blues President
In this spoken-word poem, Matthew Brouwer riffs on his ideal presidential candidate, a leader who knows the blues.
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A poem by Brian G. Phipps that dwells between waking and sleeping, life and death.
View ArticleA Biblical Approach to Suicide Prevention: Where Did the Greeks Go Wrong?
This essay advocates a biblical emphasis on life promotion and suicide prevention as freedom from a fatalistic and tragic life, especially in contrast to the ancient Greek fascination with death and...
View ArticleLonging
In “Longing,” Maryann Hannan examines the contrast between a psalm’s proclamation of trust and her own unending spiritual desires.
View ArticleSoulful Resistance: Theological Body Knowledge on Tennessee’s Death Row (Part...
In this two-part essay, Andrew Krinks explains that to be human on Tennessee’s death row demands being more than just a body; it demands soulfulness.
View ArticleSoulful Resistance: Theological Body Knowledge on Tennessee’s Death Row (Part...
In the second part of his two-part essay, Andrew Krinks continues his essay on why being human on Tennessee’s death row demands being more than just a body; it demands soulfulness.
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CFP: The Soul
THE SOUL St Anne’s College, University of Oxford 28 June – 1 July 2013 Ever since Descartes, the soul understood as immediate mental consciousness has tended to stand as a last bastion securing...
View ArticleBlues President
I want a blues president, one who know each note of the pentatonic. I want a president who’s not ashamed to admit he’s smoked chronic. Because at times the pain’s too strong, I want a president who’s...
View ArticleOn Awakening
When you came home last night and startled me from deep sleep into wakefulness so excruciating, I thought, It’s true: the soul really does leave its slumbering body, and when an awakening gives the...
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A Biblical Approach to Suicide Prevention: Where Did the Greeks Go Wrong?
Despite erroneous statements of some writers to the contrary, the Hebrew scriptures state clear and strong prohibitions against suicide and consider it to be an immoral act. The biblical prohibition...
View ArticleLonging
like a weaned child is my soul within me Psalm 131:2 No, my soul is like my infant grandson, left alone with me one bleak hour. Here, hungry baby, suck on my finger ’til your mommy gets home. Harder...
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CFP: The Soul
THE SOUL St Anne’s College, University of Oxford 28 June – 1 July 2013 Ever since Descartes, the soul understood as immediate mental consciousness has tended to stand as a last bastion securing...
View ArticleSoulful Resistance: Theological Body Knowledge on Tennessee’s Death Row (Part...
In his search for the truth beyond all doubt, the seventeenth-century philosopher René Descartes posited that the fundamental source and constitution of human personhood is the thinking mind, not the...
View ArticleSoulful Resistance: Theological Body Knowledge on Tennessee’s Death Row (Part...
Editor’s Note: Part One of this essay was published earlier this week. Theological Anthropology on Death Row Because particular conceptions of the body and the soul have long been encoded in the...
View ArticleOn the Condition of Rural America
1. Oak pews hard as stone, plain walls, the clock ticking behind, where only the preacher could see. The preacher saying Every head is bowed every eye is closed, saying Now is the time, if you feel...
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