Managing Editor for mbird.com. Phd in New Testament and Early Christianity from Durham University, England. On Twitter @toddbrewer_
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Why Do Men Cry Watching Sports Movies?
Sports Movies Touch a Truth Deeply Hidden in the Male Psyche: An Overwhelming Sense of Inadequacy.
Another Week Ends: Technological Addiction, Omnipresent Politics, Advice Columns, Toxic Fandom, and Love Beyond Death
1. A year ago, before a global pandemic altered our lives, discussions about the promise and perils of technology had a theoretical tone to them. Having a social media account was an entertaining frivolity. You could carry a “dumb phone” around and get some street cred for opting out of the system. You might avoid […]
“Aubade,” by Philip Larkin: A Poem for Ash Wednesday
“I See What’s Really Always There: / Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”
The Apocryphal Imagination of Richard Rohr
The More I Read of Rohr, the More He Reminds Me of Early Christian Apocryphal Literature
Another Week Ends: Jesus in the News, Body-Positivity, Unconditional Love, Score-Keeping, and Grace for Life-Wasters
1. Kicking off this week we take a bit of a deep dive into all the Jesus articles that appeared over the holiday season, which featured no small amount of controversy. On Christmas Eve, Peter Wehner wrote in the New York Times of “The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus,” assembling a variety of gospel narratives to argue […]
Storming the Capitol in the Name of Jesus
If It Was a Revolution the Crowd was Looking for, Jesus Would Have No Part In It
Another Week Ends: A Darth Vader Nativity, Holiday Blues, Christmas Hope, the Star of the Magi, & the Parable of a Dirty Sock
1. Every year, the Vatican erects a different nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square. They’re kind of a big deal. Past displays have been politically themed, while others were more traditionally beautiful. But the chosen scene this year is causing quite the stir. Including a fire extinguisher, ring-wraith figurine, and an astronaut helmet, the New […]
Giving Tuesday Indulgences for Black Friday Guilt
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday …
Can the Good Outweigh the Bad? The Case of the Philanthropist-Serial Killer
On the Balance Sheets We Live By and the Hope of Canceled Debts
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