Blog 10 Sep 2018 Trump’s Pantheistic Temptation February 06, 2017 by Vern Redekop WN: Anything my friend and scholar Vern Redekop writes -- and he is prolific!… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Apr 2017 The Banality of War WN: Below is the first footnote of an essay for a possible chapter in an upcoming book slated for fall… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2016 Eat Me: The Cannibalistic Origins of the State David Gornoski Friday, August 05, 2016 This an outstanding piece, especially in the writer's powerful juxtaposition of Jesus' invitation to… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2016 Nonviolence and the Book of Revelation with an Annotated Bibliography by Paul Nuechterlein an excerpt: When I wrote the first draft of this page (May 2007), I was wondering if… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2016 Re-Sacralizing Violence in the Left Behind Books by Paul Nuechterlein An excerpt: From the perspective of mimetic theory, the most serious problem with the Left Behind series… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Apr 2016 Does Faith Breed Violence? Book review of Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, New York: Schoken Books, 2015. You may… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2016 René Girard’s Theories Still Explain the Violence All Around Us WN: This is the CBC headline for airing the David Cayley five-part series on violence and its origins, the last… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 May 2014 Chapter Forty-Eight In 2007 I first published Chrysalis Crucible, a coming-of-age novel about young Andy Norton who goes off to West Berlin… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 René Girard and Violence WN: The paper below was (re)written just for my own joy in 1997, with subsequent rewrites. A version was prepared… Editor No Comments