Perennial Crucifixion

Pope washes feet

"While popes have for centuries washed the feet of the faithful on the day before Good Friday, never before had a pontiff washed the feet of a woman. That one of the female inmates at the prison in Rome was also a Serbian Muslim was also a break with tradition."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9960168/Pope-washes-feet-of-young-Muslim-woman-prisoner-in-unprecedented-twist-on-Maundy-Thursday.html

Dershowitz v. Chomsky debate Israel

Chomsky recently gave the Edward W. Said lecture in London on March 18, 2013, which is adapted here under the title 'The Cruelty That Keeps Empires Alive': http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-cruelty-keeps-empires-alive?paging=off

The actual lecture can be seen here: http://www.mosaicrooms.org/edward-w-said-london-lecture-2013-full-video/

Job: Lecturer in Theology and Religion at Durham University

"The Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University invites applications for the post of Lecturer in Contemporary Catholic Theology and/or Catholic Studies who, in addition to sharing fully in research, teaching, and supervision, will serve in the newly created role of Deputy Director (Academic Development) of the Centre for Catholic Studies (CCS)."

"The postholder will be expected to research and teach in the broad field of contemporary Catholic theology / Catholic studies. Areas of subject specialism may include, among others:

Catholic theology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries;
Catholic moral theology;
Catholic social thought and practice;
social-scientific study of Catholic practice, history and tradition in the modern period."

https://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_durham01.asp?newms=jj&id=80169

Art and Religion III: 'Why Painting Matters'

Just because I think there are many parallel discussions going on in both religion and art

Beautiful

Jobby jobs

Post Doctoral Fellowships at St. Louis University
"The Research Fellow will be responsible for one of six use cases that will test the functionality and feature set of the software. The successful candidate for this position will collaborate with Professor Monica Green of Arizona State University on an edition of an eleventh-century medical text in Latin. The main tasks will be to complete transcriptions of the extant manuscript witnesses, assist in creating the editorial apparatus, and prepare the edition for digital publication using features of the software in development. In addition to the work of scholarly editing, the Research Fellow will also participate in bug reporting, usability testing and weekly staff meetings."
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175731802
https://jobs.slu.edu

Assistant Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Grand Canyon University
Grand Canyon University's College of Christian Studies is seeking an Assistant Professor to teach relevant subjects in the field of expertise to undergraduate and/or graduate students related to Theology and Biblical Studies with an emphasis on Christian world view and ministry. Designs course content and stimulating projects using active learning techniques which invigorate and challenge students' education; courses may be delivered in a classroom/lecture environment or online or a combination of methods.
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175731312
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA6/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=GCU&cws=1&rid=3485

Art influencing the interpretive paradigm

From the MET: 82nd & Fifth; curators talk about works of art that have changed the way they see the world.

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/

Brian Leiter on Religious Toleration

Brian Leiter talks about his book, 'Why Tolerate Religion?' 

http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/podcasts/recordings/Leiter_ReligiousToleration.mp3

http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=6367

*Update Aug. 7, '13: One more here at freethoughtradio starts around the 20 min. mark

Have yet to read this but Leiter is definitely one to consider...
(Brian Leiter is the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values at the University of Chicago.)

Bignone's conviction; Relieve or Implicate the Pope?

Last week Argentina's ex-military leader Reynaldo Bignone, and others, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Dirty War for crimes against humanity committed at military base Campo de Mayo in Buenos Aires in the 1970s and 80s.



BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21766005
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18731349 
Argentina Independent: http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/reynaldo-bignone-is-sentenced-to-life-in-jail/
SBS: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1746022/Argentine-ex-military-leaders-get-life


If you've paid attention, the recently elected pope's name has often been raised in relation to the Dirty War and his role in the kidnappings...

then and now

2005: "People fill Via Della Conciliazione boulevard about half a mile away from the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican after Pope John Paul II's body was carried across the square into the Basilica for public viewing on April 4, 2005. With tens of thousands of mourners outside hoping for a glimpse of the body, 12 pallbearers flanked by Swiss Guards carried the late pontiff's body on a crimson platform from the Sala Clementina, where it had lain in state since the previous day. (LUCA BRUNO - AP)"

2013: "Visitors take photos of Pope Francis as he speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Francis, is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. (Michael Sohn - AP)"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/about-those-2005-and-2013-photos-of-the-crowds-in-st-peters-square/2013/03/14/aaf1067a-8cf9-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_blog.html 

 

Calvin and Hobbes: Expectation v. Reality

Habitus; developing techniques of the body

Baby Ava



KJ, age 4

Spirit Possession or Dubstep?

Significance of the pope?

With the recently elected Argentinian Pope Francis, Garry Willis raises a good question during the days that preceded the election: Does the pope matter?


"But didn’t Jesus say, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church” (Mt. 16.18)? Yes, but he also ordered his disciples not to seek rank among themselves (Mark 9.33-37), and said “Do not call any man on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven” (Matthew 23.9, NEB). How do we reconcile these sayings? G. K. Chesterton gave the best answer. Christ, founding his church, did not choose Peter because he was above others, but because he was not above them:

He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward—in a word, a man… All the empires and the kingdoms have failed because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by a strong man upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible. For no chain is stronger than its weakest link.

In the coming election, we do not have to fear Dante’s hell-bound popes, Acton’s mass-murderer popes, or Newman’s in-need-of-death pope. Happily, we can expect the new pope to be a man ordinary and ignorable, like Saint Peter."

whether this turns out to be correct, we shall see; Pope Francis