Technologies of Time and the Tyranny of Convenience
Why can’t we seem to stop working?
Technologies of Space and the Tyranny of Convenience
Has the invention of the GPS given us more freedom or is it a manifestation of hegemony?
Why Making Life Decisions is more like Reading Poetry than like Reading a Map
In which I become autobiographical.
Trauma and the Saturated Phenomenon: Distinguishing Interruption from Rupture
Tamsin Jones’ article comparing Jean-Luc Marion’s saturated phenomenon to trauma shows that we must find ways to distinguish violence from non-violent interruption.
Speculations about Rowan Williams’ Recent References to Rhythm
Rowan Williams reached for the idea of rhythm in response to two questions at the Wheaton Theology Conference. Does this mean he’s currently thinking about it more broadly?
James Turrell: Using Space to Resist Consumerism
Sometimes it seems that consumerism has absorbed everything and there is no hope of resistance. This is a story about how a black hole in the wall may be a beacon of hope.
The Spiritual Rhythms of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Sermons
King modifies the rhythms of speech in order to give congregants an experience of freedom, to connect them experientially with the freeing Spirit.
Does Rhythm have a Metaphysical Ground?
That depends on whether you think “encounter” counts.
New Rhythmic Questions for 2018
As I enter the publication process of the first book coming out of TRTP, I’m starting to think about new questions for 2018.
What are congregants really doing when they complain about church music?
Complaints from the pews about matters of form are often dismissed as superficial and immature. But they may point churches to a necessary conversation.
The Rhythmic Theology Project 