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A Mimetic Reading of the Ferguson Events

I’m a hugely text-oriented person, but so much of what happened in Ferguson this week was captured in truly compelling tweeted images that this post will be full of embedded tweets, mostly including images. Some of those compelling images were … Continue reading

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So much internet, so little time

Here’s a roundup of some good stuff I’ve read lately: – Why English majors make lousy fundamentalists calls out seven key elements of approaching scripture as literature, and how they shape interpretation. Here’s a snippet: An English major assumes that … Continue reading

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Are bodies optional?

Gay Christian Geek blogs against gender essentialism in the context of body essentialism, both of which he rejects: The physical reality of the human body is a limitation on human experience. True human experience is in the consciousness, the mind, … Continue reading

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