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Christ-Hauntedness: Between Pagan Sacrifice and Christian Grace
Flannery O’Connor, the American Catholic writer, once described the modern South as “Christ-haunted.” She used this expression to describe a society that had become increasingly distant from Christianity but could not escape its presence. Christ is no longer at the center of people’s lives in the way He once was, yet His shadow remains everywhere. […]
Yukio Mishima and the Tragedy of Fatherlessness
Yukio Mishima remains one of the most fascinating figures of twentieth-century postwar literature. The Japanese novelist, playwright, poet, bodybuilder, nationalist, and eventual author of his own ritual suicide lived a life marked by an intense preoccupation with masculinity. His novels repeatedly return to young men who are searching for something greater than themselves and who, […]
When the Body Decays: Dostoevsky, Elder Zosima, and the Triumph of Fear
The infamous chapter of “the Grand Inquisitor” in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” is rightfully praised as one of the great literary deconstructions of coercive institutional power. Ivan Karamazov’s parable presents a terrifying possibility: that human beings, unable to bear the freedom Christ gives them, will eventually prefer an institution that relieves them of the […]
Why Christians Should Read “Revelation” By Flannery O’Connor
In the world of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, grace rarely arrives in comfortable form; most often it arrive through humiliation, suffering, and grotesque moments in which a person’s carefully constructed understanding of himself is suddenly deconstructed and exposed as a lie. Few of her stories demonstrate this more powerfully than “Revelation,” first published in 1964, the […]
What Is the Last True Rebellion?
What is the last true rebellion? The creators of the Orthodox Christian magazine “Death to the World” offered an interesting answer. The last true rebellion, they argued, is “to be dead to this world and alive to the other world.” For many disaffected young people, this message possessed an unusual power. Surrounded by consumerism, political […]
How Christ Destroys the Bystander Effect
Why are modern people so desensitized to violence? Some insist that atrocities such as the Holocaust could never occur again in the age of the internet and social media, because instant communication would expose evil before it could fully manifest itself. Yet the international reaction to the suffering and destruction in Gaza has revealed the […]
What’s Happening in Magnetics w/ Robert Schaudt and Dr Weiping Yu
What’s going on in the world of magnetics? Physicist Dr Weiping Yu and Robert Schaudt join David Gornoski to talk about how TWST Events is promoting scientific innovations through conventions throughout America, Dr Yu’s appearance in the recent Motor, Drive Systems, & Magnetics conference, what the Magnetics Conference will look like in the future, and […]
Grace in Philip K Dick’s “Ubik”
Among the great American novelists of the twentieth century, few have proven more prophetic than Philip K Dick. His novels are often shelved under science fiction, yet that label obscures the deeper nature of his work. Dick was not merely interested in futuristic gadgets or speculative worlds. He was concerned with metaphysics, memory, identity, death, […]
Islamic Nonviolence
Adnane Mokrani’s “Towards an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence” is perhaps the only engagement with René Girard’s anthropology written from within an Islamic framework. In the aftermath of 9/11, Girard often suggested that militant Islam represented a possible return of sacrificial religion into history. Mokrani’s work can be read, at least in part, as a response […]