Chris Dierkes
Chris was raised in the US and now lives in Canada (having emigrated in via marriage to my beautiful wife). He's a Christian (Anglican) priest, holding a Master’s Degree in Divinity (MDiv).
Though a Christian and that lens ultimately is the one through which he sees the world, Chris has spent a number of years studying and practicing various practices from many of the world’s great religious traditions. He has written and thought a great deal about the relationship between religion, society, and politics in the contemporary world.
In the great debate between secularism and religion (as it is commonly understood and practiced) in our day and age, Chris feels like Leslie Nielsen’s Dr. Rummack in Airplane! When told that the passengers had the choice between fish and steak as their on-flight meal, Rummack responds, “Oh yes, I remember I had the lasagna.”
The fish of secularism and the steak of common religion will not do. Only the lasagna of post-postmodern religion will satiate. We hope you like Italian.
Voltronization: Or The Meta-Enaction of Beams & Struts
By Request: Why It Is Impossible to Be Spiritual Without Being Religious
The Post-Postmodern Historical Jesus
Review of Confessions of an Atheist Buddhist Part II
Review of Confessions of an Atheist Buddhist Part I
Response to Michael: A (Partial) Defense of AQAL Contingency
The Road to Palestinian Statehood via Thoreau
Zizek Goes A Googling: Or The Need for a Political Enlightenment
The Integral Learning Cycle: An Apostolic Example
The Beams of the Absolute and The Struts of Discipline: Religion in the Post-postmodern Age
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