Author Archives: PaulVK

New Republic It was a contingency that, by Davis’s reckoning, marked “the final stage of the Age of Emancipation,” and served as a reminder of alternative possibilities for the United States and the Atlantic world. New World slavery, Davis argues, … Continue reading →

Really cool article on how we think about extinction. Ironically, much conservationist thinking involves an implicitly mythological conception of species diversity that agrees in its essentials with the creation account offered in Genesis. In the scriptural tradition, God looked upon … Continue reading →

A complaint of the absence of God

Rational Doubt PVK comments below. Again, the notion here is “inside/outside” and somehow by leaving you can see and think more clearly. The metaphor always suggests that it’s like leaving a building. What is lost is that it is more … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Stoker  Here is the secret: Christianity is radically countercultural and deeply politically inconvenient.