The Archive
Year: 2010
Happy Postmodern Christmas
“Now Heidegger, Nietzsche! Now, Levinas and Lyotard!
On Derrida, Foucault! On Butler and Baudrillard!
To each modern foundation, to each stucturalist wall!
Now deconstruct! Deconstruct! Deconstruct all!”
An Arabic Christmas Carol
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Brightest of the Eternal Light
O Oriens
O Orient, Brightest of the Eternal Light,
and Sun of Righteousness:
Come and lighten them that sit in darkness,
and in the shadow of death.
A Christmas buffet
A wandering soul with an internet connection looking for spiritual sustenance in this holy season can find all matter of wonders. There’s the Huffington Post’s 10 best religion books of the year feature, Scott Gunn’s blog posting on the world’s worst Advent calendars, and the winners of Stephen Prothero’s Make Your Own Religion contest, which he ran in a class at Boston University.
Christmas carol trainwreck
Maggie Dawn directs us to this recording of O Holy Night, captured by the Music Academy. Apparently, it is for real. And, as one commenter said, it is not without sincerity.
God and social media
My question is whether social media really does level hierarchies in as thoroughgoing a way as some of its most ardent theorists suggest. Any number of public figures use Facebook and Twitter as part of a strategy that fosters visibility for their ideas and initiatives, and only a minimum of interaction around very safe sorts of ideas. And I am not saying there is anything wrong with that.
NPR updates story of surging anti-gay sentiment in Uganda
Barbara Bradley Hagerty interviewed David Bahati, author of Uganda’s notorious anti-gay legislation, and Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, who was defrocked by Archbishop Henry Orombi, primate of the Church of Uganda, for ministering to LGBT Christians, for this report.
Kids tell the Christmas story
The children of St. Paul’s in Auckland New Zealand tell the Christmas story in this lilting video.