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Developing an Ecological Orientation Through the Narrative Imagination
Christopher BensonBook Reviews
Christian Ethics in a Technological Age
Christopher BensonFormationHermeneutics
When I taught humanities at a Christian secondary school, I spent the first week or so of the fall semester exploring how Christians should read because I anticipated that the pagan literature of the Greeks and Romans would chafe against […]
Christopher BensonEducation
The Academic Program at St. John's College
Christopher Benson
Blogging has several functions. One function that I particularly enjoy is broadcasting what’s “out there,” an appropriately vague phrase to capture the bewildering number of events, films, and books that deserve attention. I informed Mere O readers about recent films […]
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The Title Waiting for Mr. Benson's Book
Christopher Benson
Why do people fail to acknowledge the reality of evil? My progressive friends––a list which is getting shorter and shorter––were baffled by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. They lacked a vocabulary and worldview to describe what happened. […]
Christopher BensonPhilosophy
Postmodernism: What Hath Paris to Do with Jerusalem?
Christopher Benson
Maya Angelou says he “thinks like a sage, acts like a warrior and writes like a poetical prophet.” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. says he is “the pre-eminent African-American intellectual of our generation.” And Marian Wright Edelman says he is “one […]
Christopher BensonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
The Culture Wars Played Out in the American Cinema House
Christopher BensonMusic
The Double Entendre of African-American Music: A Lesson for the Church
Christopher Benson
Jesus taught that “people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil” (John 3:19). As an anthropological and ethical statement, this is unequivocally true. But do we need physical darkness? In a National Geographic article entitled […]
