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How Am I Not in This Book? A Pacifist’s Lament/Book Review

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On June 28, 2012 · 16 Comments · In Religion

Andy Samberg’s impersonation of Nicholas Cage is not perfect, but it’s hysterical. I’m thinking, of course, of the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update segment “Get in the Cage,” in which Samberg, impersonating Cage, interviews other actors. At some point during the interview, after recounting the details of the guest’s recent movie, Samberg/Cage asks, “How am [...]

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The New Sincerity: Telling the Truth in Indie Rock

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On June 11, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Culture

This evening I’ll be giving a talk as part of Boston’s Church of the Advent series, Theology on Tap. The series theme is The Gospel and Pop Culture, and my particular talk is concerned with Indie Rock. My title is “The New Sincerity: Telling the Truth in Indie Rock,” and what follows is a slim [...]

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The Illusory Promise of Apolitical Theology

By David Sessions On June 2, 2012 · 5 Comments · In Politics, Religion

Apropos of our ongoing discussion of what religious political engagement should look like amid the culture wars, Conor Williams has made an effort at describing two different faith interacts with American politics. He calls these “ideological religion,” which would be your extreme religious partisan; and “dispositional religion,” which is theologically engaged [...]

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