Religion

A teach-in Presented by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Chicago, 5 February 2015. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description Whether it is the gruesome murder of school children in Peshawar or the brutal killing of editors of Charlie Hebdo, it is clear that our world is in the grip of militant Islam. But what is even more shocking is the response of the Left to these incidents. [Read More]

A panel event held on March 12, 2013 at King’s College in Hailfax, Canada. Video Recording Panelists Gary Burrill (Member of the Legislative Assembly for Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia New Democratic Party) Arthur McCalla (Religious Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University) Katie Toth (Layperson, United Church of Canada) Antoni Wysocki (STAND) Description Religion necessarily appears to the left today as a question of for or against. But “religion” and “the left” are by no means transhistorical categories. [Read More]

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009 STUDY THE STALLS OF A SEMINARY BATHROOM and chances are you will find the following scrawled out in ballpoint: “Nietzsche: God is Dead. God: Nietzsche is dead.” The quip relies on a misreading – God, for Nietzsche, did not die like your grandmother or pet turtle might die. God died like a language might die. In a secular world, belief becomes unbelievable. But the bathroom graffiti retains a bit of truth. [Read More]

MY FIRST IMPRESSION UPON ENTERING Haseeb Ahmed’s installation, “The Common Sense,” which opened at Around the Coyote Gallery on September 5th was one of open space. It was an openness that contrasted sharply with the hundreds of paintings, photographs, sculptures that cluttered the rest of the many other galleries that opened that Night in Wicker Park’s FlatIron Building. Such a contrast pointed out the fact that, more a piece of interior architecture than a collection of installed objects, the central element to be experienced in Ahmed’s installation was space itself. [Read More]