Must I Be An Ethicist?
This is post is dedicated to all of the critics and doubters out there. Population: 1. Wait, maybe 2. Originally posted on LIVEJOURNAL. A couple of years ago, Monica Coleman, author of Making a Way out...
View ArticleSelf-Critique and Me: Rod
An exercise of admitting my blind spots This is my response to commenter who wanted us to engage in critical self-reflection. Once upon a time in a far away place, there was this one person who nagged...
View ArticleStan "The Man" Hauerwas pt. 2
Rodney’s Post-colonial Analysis of the Introduction and Chapter 1 The Peaceable Kingdom by Hicks Two weeks ago, Chad began a conversation on Stanley Hauerwas’s The Peaceable Kingdom. He convinced me to...
View ArticleFidelity and Chastity
The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is going on this week. One particular issue that many of us are watching closely is a phrase that is in its Book of Order, in regards to...
View ArticleA sad day
Saturday might be the day I lost hope. Perhaps the future will be new and different, like the mercies of God. Let’s hope so. My last blog detailed some things that I had been praying about changing in...
View ArticleFirefly & Theology, Part 2: Captain Mal Reynolds & Serenity
Cultural Hybridity, War, Meals, and Moral Agency First post: Firefly & Theology Part 1: I addressed questions of theodicy and evil as it related to the ‘verse in Joss Whedon‘s Firefly as well as...
View ArticleCowboys And Aliens
RELIGION, VIOLENCE, AND RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM Cowboys and Aliens. Cowboys and Aliens was a film recommended to me by some kids at school. I had high time decided it was time to RedBox a film I had meant...
View ArticleJust Arrived: Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, and the...
I am happy to announce another review copy for a book has come to me, from Orbis Books, Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, and the Struggle To Thrive In America by one of my former...
View ArticleQuip of the Day: Roland Boer On Ethics
Roland Boer commenting on Judith Butler, but really, a large number of scholars talk about dialogue and conversation, but end up just having monologues for people, preaching to the choir, especially in...
View ArticleI am better than that.
A while back I wrote a post that was out of character. To that end, I have taken it down at a friend’s request. RodtRDHRod the Rogue Demon Hunter, Preacher of Hope | Black Scholar of Patristics |...
View ArticleA Summer of Environmental Ethics & Justice! : A guest post by Harry
“Harry Samuels is a student at UNC Asheville majoring in Environmental Management & Policy. He’s also very much obsessed with this Jesus guy – his politics, religious sensibilities, and the...
View ArticleA Strange Rending of Nature/Atlantis: Slave Perceptions of Nature & Aquaman –...
A Guest Post “Harry Samuels is a student at UNC Asheville majoring in Environmental Management & Policy. He’s also very much obsessed with this Jesus guy – his politics, religious sensibilities,...
View ArticleCrossings and Dwellings by Thomas Tweed
Verb is the Word Thomas Tweed emphasizes movement in his discussion on religion. His definition of religions are “confluences, of organic-cultural flows, that intensify joy and confront suffering by...
View ArticleMy #NaNoWriMo project this year: #TheNewPacifism
For the third year in a row, I am participating in the NaNoWriMo as a Rebel, that is I am not writing a work of fiction, but non-fiction on the New Pacifism. I am hoping to get 30,000-35,000 words...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood, Activism & the Ethics of Deception
This post will probably make some of you mad, question my faith and say that I’m not a Christian. But I’ve never been one to shy away from controversial topics. Over the past few weeks, three...
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