a review of religion and media
The McSweeney’s gang has graced us with the publication of William T. Vollman‘s seven-volume exploration of violence, Rising Up, Rising Down; one is tempted to see it as something of a prank. But Scott McLemee, Continue Reading →
“The preaching is Baptist, long and good, about the generations springing up and being cut down like grass. The funeral director, the ‘funeralizer,’ the Gullah say, has the ‘catchers’ — Continue Reading →
David Klinghoffer writes erudite but peculiar books. In one, he recalled his teenage self-circumcision as part of a “conversion” experience (to “real” Judaism). In his more recent effort, The Discovery of God, Continue Reading →
“The Death of the Book,” by S. David Marsh, is not, strictly speaking, a religion story. Yet by virtue of its location — Mars Hill Review, one of the best Christian lit Continue Reading →
“A specter has been haunting Marxism,” writes Eugene McCarraher — “the specter of Christianity.” The heavyweights of Marxist academe (they still walk the earth) have gone and got themselves some God, reports Continue Reading →