Archives

Below are listed all posts on The Row Boat since it began in early 2005. These do not include what has been posted to the Text Ticker or Draw-In-Proof.

The Official Guide to God in Proof | God in Proof: An Evening of Song and Abstraction | The Scandal of White Complicity | What Do You Believe? How Do You Know? Want a Free Book? | Hacking the World | The Pope Is Not the Church | What I Learned about Empire in the West Bank | When You Need Your Notebook to Lie Flat | What the _ Did Occupy Do? Where the _ Is Occupy? | Will Templeton Money Crown Philosophy Queen Again? | On Strike Against Myself | Paint the Other Cheek | Some Great Cause, God’s New Messiah | On Occupy Wall Street’s Radical Roots | A Law Higher than the Law | Listen to This Man | This Is Not Online | Two Happy Stops Along the Greek Apocalypse | Occupying Memory | Killing Celebrity Buddhas | Ten Years of War, Three Weeks of Occupation | #AmericanAutumn | Stop Bombing Them | The Rich Are Organized—Why Aren’t You? | The Suspicious Revolution | An Eden Full of Dudes | You Have Searched Me and Known Me | What’s at Stake in The Tree of Life? | Lull Me Into Rapture | Levitating Alien Mind Gods | How to Instigate a God Debate | Judith Butler on the Blurry Line of Violence | Martyrdom Makeover | Text Messages Live from Madison | Gene Sharp and the Science of People Power | Oprah-atic Citizenship | I Need My Pain! | The Life of the Immortals | The Kabul Scarf | Gods Must Die to Live | Doing Theology | What Good Are Good Arguments? | The God of This World | The Truth in Myth | Will Boycotting Mass Spur Reform? | Studying Religion Is Revolutionary in China | Apolitical Heresies | Does Science Need Religion? | Prove (or Disprove) the Existence of God! | The Memory Theater, Revisited | Martyr City | The Politics of Big Questions: The John Templeton Foundation | Thinking through the Freedom Flotilla | Reza Aslan on the Academy | The Significance of Borders | Captive Meditation | The Right to Truth | On Being a Talking Head | Milbank, Orthodoxy, Politics | Judith Butler’s Carefully Crafted F**k You | Papal Peacemaking | Religion Blogs: Too Many to Count | Atheist, Ensouled | What’s The Point of War? | Karen Armstrong’s Compassion | Theology for Atheists | The Study of Special Experiences | Hipsters, Hasidim, and My Bike Lane | The Irrelevance of Proof to the Holiday Spirit | Don’t Take Away My Memory Theater | Beginning with Witness: the FOR’s Mark Johnson | Why Is the End of the World Such a Big Deal? | Life After Past Evil | Religion Returns to Montreal | The Gospel of Contradiction | The Life and Death of the Death of God | Beautiful Dreamers | Planning Is a New Variety of the Sin of Pride | Harvey Cox and the Future of Faith | Reverend Billy, the “Fake Leader” | Sackcloth on Wall Street | Sentimental Repression | Have You Heard of Rashi? | Spiritual Machines | God Has Died Before | The Shooting Gallery | The Fullest Yahya Investigation Yet | Religion for Radicals | The Police Came and Then They Went Away | The Recession and the Arms Trade | The Pleasure of Proof | Erik Prince and the Spell of Freedom | The Proof Industry | Visual Metaphysics | Religion Takes the Stand | Journalism as an Encounter | Agee on the Artist At War | The Quaker Birds of Costa Rica | Rules of Engagement | Radio Silence | Events Today in Costa Rica | Non-zero-sum God | Curious, Obscene, Terrifying, and Unfathomably Mysterious | Transient Vapors | Are Atheists Alright? | Science & Religion: Still Not Settled | Some Sound Economic Analysis | Nonviolence from the Unlikeliest of Places | Give Up Now, Young Writer | Seeing Home | Believer, Beware in NYC! | At the Bushwick Reading Series | Notes on Bodega Engineering | The End of Evangelical-Bashing? | A Symbologist Speaks! | Religion and Science, Sitting in a Tree … in Vatican City … with a Mysterious Pentagram Carved into It | Waging Nonviolence | A Country to Die For | The Defense Department Gospel | The Original Peaceniks | Star Trek Sans Politics | The Teachings of Carl on Vice | Resounding through Manhattan | Regions of the Great Heresy | Credit Card Rosary | Work Is Love Made Visible | The Poem of Force | The Illustration Saga | Revolution by Religion | Niebuhr, Pacifism, Realism, Peacebuilding | Science of the Secular | Mark Twain’s Eden | I Got a Secret | A Crook for Souls | The Tweets of the Christ | A Vegan Fast | A Godly Test | Twitter Ontology | How to Give Alms | Agency as a Vocation | The Multiverse Problem | The Pleasure of the Text | The Great Wallet Spike | Showboating for the Prez | Dying, Desperately, Heroic | The Rubber Band Wallet | The Examined Life Is Good | Making Sense of American Religion | Cooking Up Numbers | A Civilized Conversation about Militarism | The Diaries of the Late God | Taking Our Bombs Too Lightly | The Trickster of Traveling | Militarism and Heroism | Must One Describe? | 25 Random Notes on Ash Wednesday | Some Say “God Saved the World” | Who Are These Women? | Searching for Truth-Force in Pragmatism | Environmentalism as a Politics of Fear | What Would Darwin Do? | The Self-making Man | Calling Farm Animals! | The Future of Publishing Round-up | Can Islam Save the Economy? | Resources for Compassion | The Origins of Knowledge | A Faith-based Initiative | Simple Gifts | An Experiment in Faith | We Buy Conversation | Surfing the Satellite | The Burden of Peace in Gaza | Cleansing Ideology in Method | An Invitation: What Is Missing? | The Sounds of San Cristóbal | Can Nonviolence Govern? | Numbers into Buildings | Population Bombs | List of Human Sacrifices | Living in Lists | Christmas Cheer | The Artist of the Beautiful | Questions for Mark Lilla | The Feast of Father Louis | Giving Bad Directions | Herzog’s Apocalypse | Are Ideas Serious? (Zizek in Jonestown) | Fighting over Fundamentals | What You Mess with When You Mess with Star Trek | Reading Everything (and More) | Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Ways of Using Science | Proof Enough for Me | Obama’s Harlem | The Election at RD | A Specimen in Our Midst | Reasons in Practice | All in Moderation? | Agnostic Machinery | Where Went the Ancient Astronauts? | The First Journalist | Summarizing Jordan | The New Young Turks | Reconstructionist Catholics? | Face to Face | Ancient Scribbles | Half Asleep in Istanbul | Obama in Brooklyn | When Soldiers Become Warriors | Have Your Markets and Your Health Care Too | Empathy in Action | The Uses of Free Culture | Fame, Sainthood, Personhood, Failure | Times of Need | Hitchens in “Conversation” | Soldiering for Obama | A Clipping Service | Were Things Really Better Then? | A Fascinating Letter | My Contribution to the Palin Mess | Stout’s Folly of Secularism | Dialogue in the Dark | Rampage in Minneapolis | Me on 3QD | A Compassionate Consensus | Learning to Be Heard | History Marches On | Critics, Critique, and LAWMAKERS | The Olympic War and the End Times | Do You Believe in Mother God? | The Benefits of Conflict | Can Creationism Go on Forever? | Clarify Your Position | Plato against Impiety | Cicero’s Sin | The Certainties of Ascension | Dialogs and Debates | Still Not Dead Yet, for Now, at Least | A Questioning Teenager | Nonviolent Technology in Tehran | Different Sorts of Skepticism | Design Worth Defending | At the Movies | Back on the Safety Net | All the Web a Wiki | The Voyage of the Beagle | An Exercise in Becoming | Becoming a Professional | Becoming a Person | Becoming a Generation | The Theory of Double Truth | The Local Neighborhood Conspiracy | Don’t You Love It When Your Day Is in a Play? | Early Morning Raid | New York State of Mind | An Exchange on Adi Da | Oh Soul Most Dear to My Soul | The Great Burden of Sin | Climbing the New York Times Building (as metaphor) | Hello World! | Some New Things | New Series at The Immanent Frame | Indiana Jones and the Alien Astronauts | Check Out Garzuela | My First Music Video | David Brooks on Neural Buddhists | Mark Taylor Interview Online | Why Bother With Theology? | An Exchange on Math | A Richard Dawkins Morning | Politics of Cowardice | Restoring Virtue to Its Feet with the Met's Satyagraha | Youth Without Youth | Hope with the Pope | Guest Letter from Edwin Lynch | When God or Justice Became a Dilemma | Obama and the End of the World in Three Movements | Notes in Defense of Ordinary Politics | The Exhilaration of Critique | Grounding Liberalism in Something | Answering the New Apathy | Ken Knisley, or Friendship | An Exchange on the Oscars | Biography and the Word of God | The Use of Faith | Want to See How I Did It? | Voting Like a Statistic | Jane Jacobs's Lively Panopticon | The Wills of Rocks: Friendship and Philosophy | Looking in Rooms | Chalk This One up to the Creationists | Political Functionalism and the Division of Labor | Why We Love Cats | A Science of the Present | A Nice Day of Limitology | Writer and City | Can We Hope in Politics? | Teaching Philosophy Statement | Testing, Naturalness, and the Pedagogy of Failure | 3 Things of Note | Walt Whitman's Prayers | Meanings of Gifts | Theologizing Economics | Points of Departure | AAR Day 1 | AAR Conference Paper | The Erotics of Revision | I Am Wrong and Contingent | The Free Market God | What Is the Use? | Extended Biology | Pulling and Pushing | The Use of Social Theory | Market Aesthetics | The Market as (the) Medium of Art | Gandhi through Niebuhr | Brain as President | Giving Freud a Decent Burial | Economics As the Site of Human Synthesis | Mark Lilla's Collective We | The Limits of Community | Animal Intelligence | The Speciation of Religion | Chi, Parsimony, and Pragmatism | Beginning a Thesis | A Draft Letter to Samantha Power | Religions Are Usually Fine with Science | Beating Dawkins over the Head in England | Toward a Science of Altruism | Small's Clone Industries Grows | Teaching Nonviolence as Technology | Piece of Spiritual Advice | A Private and Public Faith | Notes on Islam and Science | Men, Science, Religion | Notes on Technocracy | Disassembling Science and Religion | The Latest Work | Yorick's New Skull | I Know That I Am Able | Epiphenomena | Finally Apatheism | Science In Assembly | After After God | Personal Narrative | 3 Theses on Sustainable Spirituality | Managing Religiosity Proposal | An Alchemy of Religion | ASNR Conference Presentation | Eliade Over Cocktails | The Long Loneliness and Being in the World | Animals | Toward Men's Studies in Religion | New Papers and Directions | Statement on Total Outpouring and Limits | Freud's Aesthetics | Global Warming Hocus Pocus | Religion in the Political Vacuum | The Genre of Dialog | Announcing Small's Clone Press! | Keeping a Memory | Quantifying Hope | A Moral Improvement on War | Practical and Theological Ecology | (no subject) | The Things to Come | All the World as Stage | People in Dreams | Department News | Curiosity for a Cat | Celebrity Lostness | Fallout and Banality | The Word of God on Subway Trains | Truth and the Person | Disenchanting Extremism | Decapitating Politics | The Secularization of Mercy | War at a Distance Revisited | Religious Studies and Its Own End | Let the Little Children to Come to Me | The New Ziggurat | Secularized Universals | Weights and Measures | Are You Ready To Change the Way You Live | I Was a Pretty Ethical Atheist | "A Theology of Art" | Popularizing Paul | Against the Classics | test | Theological Electioneering | Sci-fi Anthropology | Notes on Mass | Certainty | Open Access | Utopian Selves | The Fate of a Delusion | Making Strong Points | Truth and Advertising | Durkheim and Dialog | Existential Religion | Memory and Scholarship | Religion and Wissenshaft | DIEU d'apres Foucauld | Your Favorite Novel | An Account of Theology | Mainstream Bokononism? | All These False Notions | War at a Distance | The Staircase Motif | A Gem in Salt Lake | Benedict at Regensburg | A New Archive | Need and Belief in the Middle East | Space Cathedrals | The Lincoln Memorial | Confession in the Age of Voyeurism | War is Over If You Want It | The Great Believer | Writing Science Fiction | a few quick links | Is Reconcilliation Real? | Spying Revisited (regarding weblogs) | Evolutionary Christianity | If there is a problem of our time | The Benefits of Education | Religious Causes | Having Conversations | SPACE TRAVEL! | History in Memory | Winged Words | States of Nature | Conspiracy | Taking Account | Orders of Terms | Language Replaced | Aesthetic or Anesthetic | Experiments and Truth | Interreligious Mysticism | Judas on Television | Pointing Out as a Guide to Morals | Heteropraxis | Idea and Flesh | A Survey | Heresy | The Silence Beneath the Silence | S T E N O G R A P H O R U S | Primacy of Narrative | Saints and Dust | The Soul as Observed and Shadow | Form and Philosophy | On Spying | Did Jesus Do Wrong? | The Psalms in India | Stories and the War on Terror | The Magesterium of Dover | Barth on God Speaking | Religious Studies Needs Art | in community | Good Things | The Near and Faraway | Aesthetic Terms | Question | Aesthetic Insight | Blunt Dialogue | Definitions Revisited | The End of Theology | hy Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) | From paradox to peace | Violence of Theories | Kitcher, Science, and Democracy | Doing in the Desert | Dylan and Zimmerman | Plato's Cave | Hauerwas' Wife | Interfaith Compromises | Religious Tourism | Seeing Design | The Heat | Flying Dreams | Suffering as a Source | Believing Symbols | Meta-Spam | Dialects of Truth | Toward Traveling | (no subject) | The word and the Word | Naming Things | Politics of the Holy Name | Implicit responsibility | Sitting | Uniting Interests | Comprehensive Heuristics | The Only Thing We Have to Fear | The Politics of Terms | White Smoke | Interpretation and the Psalms | Economy of Grace | (no subject) | The Secular and the Machine | A Death in the Family | Tacit Theology | Abolition | Confusion and Theology | Like Onto This | Hagiography | Counting Sheep | The Staircase in Santa Fe | The Fate of the Apples | A Series of Impressions | Honesty | Reliquary Theology | Natural Law