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O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?

Someone in my Twitter feed linked the video above earlier this evening. Watching it, I was struck by two things. First, by how baldly and bluntly it presents the underlying narrative of the gospel message that is standard for many … Continue reading →

In a post on the ever-stimulating Sociological Images blog, Donovan O Schaefer comments on the charismatic character of Tebow’s body and the manner in which it has become ‘a sort of theological battleground for broader religious and cultural forces’. He writes: … Continue reading →

Most of today has been occupied with reading and other activities, so I haven’t had the time to complete my latest Chauvet post. However, rather than break a run of thirteen days of daily blogging, I thought that I ought … Continue reading →

Pondering the idea of setting myself word limits for posts in the future. Within the past 24 hours I have posted about 10,000 words here. I doubt that (m)any people will have read them through.

It has been some time since I last blogged seriously, so please be patient with me if it takes me a while to warm up. While I doubt that I will post as heavily here as I have done elsewhere … Continue reading →

A week ago I graduated from the University of St. Andrews. The graduation ceremony was very enjoyable, but was made far more memorable on account of the fact that René Girard was being presented with an honorary doctorate. I have … Continue reading →

It has been several months since I last blogged here; it is about time that I made some sort of return. As a number of you already know, this blog is currently convalescing after having been hacked by blog spammers. … Continue reading →

Alastair.Adversaria will return in a month’s time (perhaps)