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 […]
Pastor Jim Fitzgerald joins David Gornoski for a conversation on preaching the Gospel to the Muslim world, Jesus’ superior anthropology, the Gaza conflict, the history of Palestine, whether Trump would go to war with Iran, and more. Read Rev. Fitzgerald’s article “Israel Against Itself and Israel Against All” here. Follow Pastor Fitzgerald on X here.
David Gornoski is joined by Q of Mimetic Value for a fascinating conversation on how the revelation of Christ teaches the true nature of desire, why Islam is a retreat back to ideology, how the trajectory of history proves Christianity, how Christ sets the terms for all modern-day conflicts, how Jesus predicted the undifferentiation in […]
Shannon Braswell of BrightNews.com and David Gornoski, host of A Neighbor’s Choice, are joined by HH Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate of Ethiopia, writer of “King of Kings”–the biography of Haile Selassie. The three discuss the enigmatic Aksumite Empire and its journey into the twentieth century, Ethiopia’s confrontation with colonialism, the African identity, Emperor Manelek’s fight against […]
THINGS HIDDEN! David Gornoski is joined by Q from Mimetic Value. How do we get valuable economic insights using the toolkit of Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory? How much of what we call identity is actually mimetic desire? Does mimesis dictate the value of an object? How has Jesus’ crucifixion led to the questioning of paradigms, […]
David Gornoski, host of A Neighbor’s Choice radio show, sits down with pastor Jim Fitzgerald for a groundbreaking conversation on the early years of Christianity in the Middle-East and North Africa; Rene Girard’s anthropological reading of Christianity; Christianity as the anti-myth that deconstructs the mono-myths; the “founding murder” of civilization; human desire; and more. How […]
Listen to the podcast: How do we see the hidden victims of violence in Indian mythology? What are some of the sacrificial underpinnings of modern-day institutions? How has Christ infected the Indian psyche? Join David Gornoski, Shannon Braswell, and Surit Dasgupta as they tackle these questions while trying to understand some of the major differences […]