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2021-02-04T07:11:35-04:00

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The Best of 2020 #1: The Coronavirus, the Apocalypse, and The Book of Revelation

Last updated on: February 4, 2021 at 7:11 am By Vance Morgan

It is not surprising, given what 2020 was like, that the most viewed post on my blog last year (by an almost 2 to 1 margin) was about the coronavirus. More specifically, it is about the strangeness of teaching a course called “Apocalypse,” a course that ended with the students assigned to read a novel about a world-wide pandemic, during a world-wide pandemic. The Coronavirus, the Apocalypse, and the Book of Revelation Read more

2021-02-01T13:14:39-04:00

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Why Don’t I Feel as Badly as I Should?

Last updated on: February 1, 2021 at 1:14 pm By Vance Morgan

I am sure that I’m not the only person who has spent noticeably more time on social media during the past year than I did before pandemic shut down. I justify my time on Facebook by explaining that it generates more traffic on my blog than any other platform on which I share my essays (although I definitely use Facebook for more than that). I can’t account for the amount of time I waste on Twitter in the same way,... Read more

2021-01-31T09:08:09-04:00

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God Is Not Information

Last updated on: January 31, 2021 at 9:08 am By Vance Morgan

When we first moved to Rhode Island in the middle 1990s for my new teaching position at Providence College, Jeanne landed a position as the office manager in the Admissions office at the college. She bonded with her boss, the Director of Admissions immediately. This was not surprising, since Bill was a New Yorker through and through just as Jeanne is. Bill had little tolerance for inefficiency or indirectness. One of Jeanne’s favorite Bill quotes: “If I ask you what... Read more

2021-01-31T10:19:13-04:00

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The Best of 2020 #2: Idolatry and Abortion

Last updated on: January 31, 2021 at 10:19 am By Vance Morgan

The #2 post on this blog in popularity in 2020 was published in February. I wrote it a few months before that, but on the advice of some trusted friends and colleagues, put it on the shelf to wait for the “right time.” The abortion issue remains front and center in political and social debates. Many of former President Donald Trump’s Christian followers cited his supposed pro-life position as the primary reason they supported him. At the same time, others... Read more

2021-01-27T08:20:29-04:00

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Liberal Christianity on the Rise

Last updated on: January 27, 2021 at 8:20 am By Vance Morgan

Last Saturday, the New York Times published a fascinating article by Elizabeth Dias called “In Biden’s Catholic Faith, an Ascendant Liberal Christianity.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/biden-catholic-christian.html For those who are convinced that “Liberal Catholic Faith” or, more broadly, “Progressive Christianity” are oxymorons, read on. I am not Catholic, but—as I often tell my students—I could play one on TV. I have spent the past thirty-plus years, first as a PhD student, then as a professor, as a non-Catholic teaching in Catholic institutions of... Read more

2021-01-16T15:01:26-04:00

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Dealing With Our Inner Nazi

Last updated on: January 16, 2021 at 3:01 pm By Vance Morgan

We ought not to hide from ourselves that Nazi Germany is a mirror for all of us. What looks to us so hideous is our own features, but magnified. Simone Weil in 1937 Tomorrow is the Spring 2021 semester’s first day of classes on my campus. Tomorrow will also be the first meeting of one of my favorite courses, an interdisciplinary colloquium that I team-teach with a colleague from the history department: “‘Love Never Fails’: Grace, Truth, and Freedom in the... Read more

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2021-01-21T07:53:09-04:00

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The Best of 2020 #3: Why are Christians So Angry and Fearful?

Last updated on: January 21, 2021 at 7:53 am By Vance Morgan

Coming in at #3 in my “Best of 2020” blog post lineup is “Why are Christians So Angry and Fearful?” I posted this essay last July ; the question is as relevant today as it was then. What, exactly, are so many Christians afraid of, given that–acording to the author of First John, at least–perfect love casts out fear? Why are Christians So Angry and Fearful? Read more

2021-01-14T13:28:39-04:00

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Can You Be a Christian Capitalist? Can You Be a Capitalist Christian?

Last updated on: January 14, 2021 at 1:28 pm By Vance Morgan

There is nothing that attracts the ire of various commenters on this blog more than when someone perceives, rightly or wrongly, that I might be a socialist, one of those evil and frightening folks who suggest that we might need to do something about the radical inequities of wealth and privilege that confront us every day. Now, I freely admit that both my Christian faith and my natural liberal tendencies lean me more strongly in a communitarian direction than an... Read more

2021-01-16T13:43:28-04:00

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Stupidity On Display: Where do we go from here?

Last updated on: January 16, 2021 at 1:43 pm By Vance Morgan

As the nation continues to process and seek to understand the seditious riot and occupation of the U. S. Capitol on January 6th, we continue to be shocked by the overwhelming amount of video footage that continues to be released. Among the many striking images are numerous Christian symbols (crosses, flags, signs, banners) interspersed with all manner of conservative political and social symbols carried and worn by people bent on violence, chaos, and mayhem. Last Tuesday, the New York Times... Read more

Dr. Martin Luther King

2021-01-15T13:57:27-04:00

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White Privilege on Parade

Last updated on: January 15, 2021 at 1:57 pm By Vance Morgan

In the days that have passed since the January 6th seditionist attack on the U. S. Capitol building, many people have expressed shock and surprise at how obviously unconcerned those rampaging and wandering through the rotunda and elsewhere were about any sort of responsibility for their actions. Why were they unafraid of having their faces caught on camera? Why were so many of them using their various devices to send out on social media live footage of the insurrection in... Read more

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