CN: 9/11 remembrances and suicide. On September 11, 2001, I was at home at my grandparents’ house in Jamaica. I was dressed in scrubs an aunt had handed down, and had no plans to do much for the day but rest: I was out of school for medical recovery while classmates and others began their semester […]
Read: Mindsets of Respect
My chapter commentary on Miroslav Volf’s book, Flourishing, is out! It begins, as the chapter does, with hard facts and sobering memories: Friday, August 5 marked the 4th anniversary of the day Michael Page gunned down six Sikhs at the Oak Creek gurdwara in Wisconsin. Until Dylan Roof murdered 9 worshippers at Mother Emanuel AME […]
Panic
Nothing brakes the train of progress and learning more effectively than apocalyptic panic. After a week at this month’s conference near Baltimore, I’m returning to Miroslav Volf’s latest book, Flourishing: Why we need religion in a globalized world. (I wrote about Flourishing briefly earlier this month, and you can still join the group that’s reading it […]
Read with Spectrum: Volf’s Flourishing
Adventist Forum’s Spectrum Magazine is hosting a summer reading group again this year. Last year, we read Richard Beck’s reflections on morality, purity, and disgust in the book Unclean. Read my article on the body and the private sphere. This year, we turn to Miroslav Volf’s latest work, Flourishing: Why we need religion in a globalized world. […]