the best concert Judas Priest ever played? Probably.

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I hated some of Glass' operas I've heard, but I find this one to be quite lovely.

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Nice piece over at Religion Dispatches on Iconoclasm in the history of Christianity, and what this tells us about the destruction of art(efacts) in Syria and Iraq today.

brief appearance from Kripal, toohttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/opinion/when-things-happen-that-you-cant-explain.html?hpw&

Love the Ophite Snaketivity

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/17/can-the-satanic-temple-save-america.html

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Prominent leader of the Jesus Seminar and the later-20th-century search for the Historical Jesus. Obit here.

Syracuse University`s Zachary Breiterman onn Charlie Hebdo and satire:


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If Kant's Enlightenment shouts "Dare to know!" the motto of postmodernism sometimes becomes "How dare you know!" This seems particularly apparent in certain deformations or abuses of postcolonial theory, hwere any strong claim to comparative, psychological, or historical knowledge is too often facilely framed as a form of "epistemological ( Read more... )

Unlike the prohibition on the visual manifestation of hte secret, the sound, whose whole purpose is to be public, evokes the secret's presence without otherwise manifesting it. Therefore, sound provides a perfect vehicle for absent presence. Sound is like a metasecret or the "skin" of the secret, announcing but concealing its content, and it is ( Read more... )