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.

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