William E. Abshire (Bridgewater): Violence and the Sacred: Interpretations of Rene Girard in Christian Philosophy and Peace Studies. From Analecta Hermeneutica, a special issue on the Absolute Question. From The Catholic Thing, if we were on the lookout for the most counter-cultural idea in contemporary Christianity to our obsession with freedom, a good choice might be the devotion of Holy Slavery; and can we stop telling God what to do? Sarah Posner on how Breivik’s “cultural analysis” is drawn from the “Christian Worldview”. What’s in a name? Mike Daniels on Christianist or Dominionist. From Jesus Radicals, John D. Rich on symbolic actions for confronting the powers: the Prophets and the Gospels; and how and when does one’s sexual life and practices truly reflect the anarchical teachings of Jesus? A review of The Embrace of Eros: Bodies, Desires, and Sexuality in Christianity. Why doesn't anybody talk about sin? How the push to focus on grace has overshadowed the danger of sin. A Year of Biblical Womanhood: An evangelical blogger is spending 12 months following the Bible's instructions for women — and she's doing it for egalitarian reasons. Nick Spencer on the political Bible: The Bible has a discomfiting tendency to cut across our natural political categories in a profoundly complex manner (and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7 and part 8). A review of Walter C. Kaiser Jr.'s Recovering the Unity of the Bible: One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose. A review of Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are by Bart D. Ehrman. From Relevant, all of a sudden, everyone is talking about the afterlife — what should Christians believe? Cybertheology: Just how much does Christian doctrine have in common with the open-source software movement?
