Religion, liberalism, and culture

Category: Culture

Culture

Grateful, A to Z.

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date November 25, 2003

‘Daisies, elephants, and flying fish…’

Culture

Real Live Preacher: The Book.

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date November 22, 2003

I can’t take a bit of credit for this good news — although I did suggest it: Real Live Preacher has a book contract! Since he’s still anonymous on the blog, will the book carry his real name?

Art Culture Worship

Poetry and religion.

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date November 15, 2003

‘Indulge, become capacious, give up nothing, Jack my corner grocer said. He was pushing the portobellos, but I was listening with that other, my neediest ear.’

‘The phantom of the tollbooth.’

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date November 11, 2003

My favorite children’s book is now a musical.

Culture Psychology

Matins America.

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date November 2, 2003

The liturgical function of ‘Good Morning, America’ and other TV morning shows.

Art Culture Music Worship

Artists as mystics.

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date October 30, 2003

‘The arts, in their serious and creative manifestations, are mystical endeavors.’

Culture Science Unitarian Universalism

Science and its metaphors.

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date October 26, 2003

My review of Mary Midgley’s ‘The Myths We Live By’ and Ursula Goodenough’s ‘The Sacred Depths of Nature.’

Culture

Is Zeus mad at Mel Gibson?

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date October 24, 2003

Lightning strikes the star of ‘The Passion of Christ.’

Culture

‘Love is God’s mafia.’

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date October 13, 2003

Real Live Preacher needs a book contract.

Culture

Sport as ritual.

Post author By Chris Walton
Post date October 2, 2003

“Vicariously, we have risked, we have dared, we have struggled, we have won and lost.”