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2018-12-09T15:12:04-05:00

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The Best Books I Read This Year (2018 Edition)

Last updated on: December 9, 2018 at 3:12 pm By John Ehrett

My reading goal this year was 250 books—and happily, it’s looking like I’ll finish up 2018 slightly ahead of schedule. I’m posting here because most of these volumes touch on theological concerns, in one way or another—though admittedly some do so more explicitly than others. The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future (John Milbank & Adrian Pabst) Dissatisfied with mainstream American conservative defenses of the liberal-democratic project (see Jonah Goldberg’s “Suicide of the West’)? Tired of doomsday proclamations... Read more

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2018-12-06T20:35:30-05:00

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“Suspiria” and the Hidden Sacred

Last updated on: December 6, 2018 at 8:35 pm By John Ehrett

Let’s get one thing clear from the start: the new Suspiria is a strange, horrible, beautiful, sprawling, and challenging film. And oddly enough, that’s a good thing. Dario Argento’s original 1977 film is in a class of its own. It’s a baroque fantasia of geometry and magic and blood, suffused with vivid colors and backed by Goblin’s twinkling prog-rock theme. At the same time, though, it never really strives to rise above the category of surrealist pulp—from beginning to end,... Read more

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2018-10-10T16:17:46-05:00

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Against the “Hermeneutic of Harm”

Last updated on: October 10, 2018 at 4:17 pm By John Ehrett

I’ve written in the past about the fascinating rise of “exvangelical” or Christian culture—created largely by those who grew up in conservative churches but have since repudiated aspects of their theological upbringing. Maybe one reason I find this content so intriguing is that I understand where it’s coming from: as someone who grew up in 90’s-00’s Christian culture, I think there’s more than a kernel of truth in some of the critiques of American McReligion (did anyone really need a... Read more

2018-09-11T11:25:33-05:00

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“Nun” Dare Call It Religious?

Last updated on: September 11, 2018 at 11:25 am By John Ehrett

A few days ago, I wrote for Conciliar Post about the natural law themes that underpin effective horror films. As it so happens, earlier this week I watched The Nun—the latest installment in the burgeoning Conjuring cinematic universe, and a movie that serves as a particularly interesting test case for my model. Set in 1952—a few years before the first Conjuring film—The Nun unfolds against the backdrop of a lonely Romanian abbey. When a young nun hangs herself under suspicious... Read more

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2018-09-05T15:31:43-05:00

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The Long Theological Shadow

Last updated on: September 5, 2018 at 3:31 pm By John Ehrett

You’d be forgiven for thinking that many American churches these days are desperately trying to be something they’re not. A drive through my North Texas suburb takes one past massive churches bearing names like “Freedom,” “Sojourn,” “The Ridge,” “Bent Tree,” and—my personal favorite—“fellowshipchurch.com.” Stodgy designators like Methodist and Presbyterian and Lutheran are out; sleeker, more “seeker-friendly” names are in. (Some groups conceal their crypto-Baptist sensibilities better than others.) On some level, though, these rebranding campaigns make sense. Broadly speaking, organized... Read more

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2018-08-09T14:43:31-05:00

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The Strange Allure of Twitch.tv

Last updated on: August 9, 2018 at 2:43 pm By John Ehrett

There’s been plenty of commentary written about how Americans are lonely—how so many of us lack friends, communities, or connections beyond the most superficial level. And I find it hard to think of anything that better captures this reality than the rise of Twitch. In a nutshell, Twitch is an online YouTube-style site where individuals can stream themselves playing video games in real time (typically also with a webcam pointed at themselves). The concept sounds insane—who wants to watch other... Read more

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2018-08-03T16:07:23-05:00

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Starting a Secret Fire: A Review of Jonathan McIntosh’s “The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie”

Last updated on: August 3, 2018 at 4:07 pm By John Ehrett

Few writers are more beloved—especially in Christian circles—than J. R. R. Tolkien, the British philologist behind The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and a vast corpus of other Middle-earth materials. And for good reason: he was a genius. Wholly apart from his religious convictions, Tolkien’s impact on the entire domain of “fantasy literature” was nothing short of colossal—indeed, virtually every book in the genre today imitates some aspect of his work. Over the years, generations of young Christians have... Read more

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2018-07-05T11:19:51-05:00

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More Thoughts on Neo-Integralism: A Critical Review of Andrew Willard Jones’s “Before Church and State”

Last updated on: July 5, 2018 at 11:19 am By John Ehrett

Since I last wrote on this subject, my post discussing neo-integralism got some pushback from those sympathetic to this particular strain of postliberal political theory. In particular, I was advised to read Andrew Willard Jones’s Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX. (Yes, that St. Louis.) St. Louis’s kingdom, the argument runs, is the leading historical exemplar of the integralist vision—strong evidence that the modern distinction between “sacred” and “secular”... Read more

Political Theory

2018-06-06T12:51:00-05:00

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Jedi Protestantism: How to Fix the “Star Wars” Saga

Last updated on: June 6, 2018 at 12:51 pm By John Ehrett

Last weekend, I watched “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” for the third time. As I wrote back in December, I think it’s a pretty good movie, and I really like the fact that it was willing to shake up the status quo (notwithstanding the outraged braying of a thousand fanboys). You won’t find me saying that it killed the Star Wars franchise or drained any enthusiasm for future installments…though I’ll admit the movie has certain flaws that become only too... Read more

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2018-05-31T16:24:20-05:00

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A Big Win for Religious Liberty in Canada

Last updated on: May 31, 2018 at 4:24 pm By John Ehrett

I’ve written here before about the unavoidable tension between conceptions of “universal human rights” and the practices of individual communities. In light of that discussion, a decision today by the Supreme Court of Canada—Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v. Wall—is particularly interesting. Judicial Committee involved a member of a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation who was “disfellowshipped” after being deemed insufficiently repentant for sinful behavior. The congregant appealed the decision to a higher church body, but that committee... Read more

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