“Englishmen or Nothing Whatever”: Lovecraft’s Sin Against Love
H. P. Lovecraft was profoundly racist, even for a White New Englander living in the early 1900’s. Lovecraft is hardly the only racist author in the history of American literature.…
Flesh Is Spirit, Spirit Is Flesh
Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 76 (Bentley 76, Erdman 76, Keynes 76). Painting by William Blake. Christians have a problem. ((Actually, we have several. But…
Theology in the Dungeon: Meeting God at the Kink Convention
Paul Tillich’s Porn Stash In her seminal work Indecent Theology, Marcella Althaus-Reid relates a fact about prominent theologian Paul Tillich, first shared by his wife Hannah in her memoir From…
Lovecraftian Christianity
There is an immortal man in the sky. A wizard, if you like. He created everything, including the laws of physics and the categories of Right and Wrong, Good and…
Dive Into Hell
You find yourself facing the entrance to Hell. Maybe it’s your classic Dante-inspired, heavy-metal looking doorway—the open mouth of a big pointy-toothed skull, perhaps, or a massive wrought-iron gate covered…
“Only Wanna Know”: Judas Iscariot, Skepticism, and Faith
Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar—a rock opera loosely retelling the story of Jesus’s crucifixion—contains a curious scene not referenced in the Gospels. In this scene towards…