Blogs about: Mimetic Theory
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Fascination with the Apocalypse Now
THE QUESTION Someone recently asked, at a sort of salon conversation gathering on 21 Dec. — the day that some believed the world was going to end (as implied by the Mayans’ calendar ending… more →
Beyond Rivalry
Dispossessing a Town Possessed: The Gerasene Demoniac
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wrote 1 day ago: The story of the Gerasene demoniac and the herd of pigs running off a cliff bewilders modern readers … more →
Contemplative Prayer as a Pearl of Great Price
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wrote 4 days ago: Becoming conscious of mimetic desire, our inborn and pre-conscious tendency to copy the desires of o … more →
Evangelical Crises and LGBT Scapegoating
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wrote 1 week ago: Last month, a series of attacks on people in the LGBT community occurred in NYC. One of the worst in … more →
Recovering Racists
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wrote 1 week ago: I have just returned from the 2013 Theology & Pace conference held in Chapel Hill, NC on “Lynchi … more →
René Girard speaks
wrote 2 weeks ago: An insight into René Girard’s thoughts on the furore following the conception of his Mimetic T … more →
Unwinding the Judgment of Solomon
wrote 2 weeks ago: Among writers of Y/A novels, Neal Shusterman has shown some of the most acute insight into social pr … more →
Will and Desire
wrote 3 weeks ago: There is much emphasis in spiritual writings on obeying God’s will. That is good, but I think we can … more →
The Infinite Round Dance
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Imagine as best you can an endless round dance of three persons dancing in and out of each other, da … more →
The Holy Spirit's Fiery Desire
wrote 1 month ago: What is the Holy Spirit? Wrong question. The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity, not an … more →
Why Did the Holocaust Happen?
wrote 1 month ago: In the inaugural René Girard Lecture, Timothy Snyder presents his latest research, placing the Holoc … more →
Hospitality Initiative
wrote 1 month ago: On May 3-4 I will be attending the Hospitality Initiative hosted at Oakland University in Oakland, M … more →
René Girard = New Economic Thinking
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wrote 1 month ago: From the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) comes this lecture on René Girard’s mimeti … more →
Knowing the Wild Things Between Us
wrote 1 month ago: Just about all of us talk about the subconscious as if it were familiar territory. By definition, th … more →
The "Boston Bombers," Scapegoating and the King in Suffering
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wrote 2 months ago: In light of the current world events, I feel compelled to articulate my thoughts on what is taking p … more →
How Are We Saved?
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wrote 2 months ago: The New Testament and two thousand years of Christian preaching has consistently proclaimed that the … more →
Rising to the Life of Christ
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wrote 2 months ago: When St. Paul says in Romans that we are baptized into Jesus’ death, what kind of death are we bapti … more →
Selling Postcards of the Cross
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wrote 2 months ago: “They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown. … more →
The First Supper
wrote 2 months ago: By the time Jesus gathered with his disciples for what is called “the last supper,” not only had the … more →
Saved from Sacrifice // Chapter 3
wrote 2 months ago: The last post about S. Mark Heim’s Saved from Sacrifice focused on chapters 1 & 2 of the b … more →
