Congratulations Zuby! Would've been great to see you on the Knicks, but Atlanta has a great program and you're going to do great things. Let's go Johnnies! Let's go Hawks!
Linked is an article from one of our university newspaper's student contributors. It is the second in a three-part series on 'polydoxy' (which the writer defines as "every member of the community pledging to affirm the religious freedom of all other members in return for their pledges to affirm his own" - a definition he borrows from Dr. Alvin J. Reines.) In the first article, he questions whether orthodoxy can be considered a form of fascism. In the third, he reflects on the Jacobin's Cult of the Supreme Being. This piece, however, is his most interesting.
In it, he argues that a prefered system of communal organization permits a sort of polydoxy within even the most orthodox traditions, as a means of sidestepping any authoritarianism that could be formed to maintain orthodox traditions. He cites, specifically, "folk Catholicism" (ie. devotions to St. Guinefort - the greyhound dog, or blood libel accusations) existing with some acceptance in even the most traditional Roman Catholic circles as evidence of this. In that sense, therefore, a progressive sort-of acceptence of Christianity functions like a multi-deist pagan faith, in which a plural of devotions are accepted in the name of unity.
What do you make of this argument? The article elaborates on it far better than summerized here, but it's a unique framing of what is, essentially, pluralism.
A student-made comic panel, from The Exchange - a student publication on the campus of St. John's University in New York
Let's cheer on the Red Storm baseball team as they compete in the Super Regional (Sweet 16 equivalent) of the NCAA D1 Baseball tournament, facing off tonight at 8:00pm against the Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, AL.
The game will air at 9:00pm on ESPN2. Let's go Johnnies!
One of our university newspaper's student contributors, who spent the past semester studying abroad in Paris, wrote this article, attributing what he calls the "symbolic theater" of being a cataphile (that is, an urban explorer with a fascination for catacombs - like those in Paris or elsewhere) to a Jungian sense of the unconscious mind, as presented in 'Aspects of the Masculine.' What do you make of this reading?