Tag: 2011
Sexuality, dialogue, and the Church
An interview in the Other Journal “In this interview, Alison speaks with us about his work on the issue of sexuality and about how he attempts to create a dialogical space around this topic in his Catholic context.”
The Portal and the half-way house: spacious imagination and aristocratic belonging
Session 10 of the twelve-session Jesus the Forgiving Victim course Introduction If you’re anything like me, you have been wondering, as we have advanced in our sessions, how what we’ve been looking at bears any relation at all to “life in the Church” as we know it. The forms of institutional life called “Church” with which…
Girard and the analogy of desire
Presentation for the Symposium on René Girard and World Religions at G.T.U. Berkeley, 14-16 April 2011. Introduction If the devil is in the details, then God is in the prepositions, and I want today to look at one such preposition: the little word “for”. I think this to be the most difficult and delicate word to…