Daniel Silliman


Mar 18, 2009


Your piece wasn't "captured": Stop-motion chess violence

Thinking about "Jew"
5 rules of book design
The airplane repo man
Nietzsche Family Circus
Ward Churchill in court
What happens to the P-I?
Growing up on facebook
New Progressive America
In memory of a lost paper
Where we put our porches
20 years after Edward Abbey
Don't believe your lying eyes
American Idol and the closet
Is Ayn Rand on the rise again?
Readers return to the libraries
Art Spegielman's "breakdowns"
Charles Dickens, the first celebrity
The long suffering of John Cheever
Where we learned torture techniques
English: Our marvelous bastard tongue
Naked and guilty: Erotic evangelicalism
Scientists shoot mosquitoes with lasers
Obama vs. Marx; liberalism vs. socialism
Shepard Faery: A rebel without the claws?
Is American Christianity to dumb to survive?
Is Baader-Meinhof a "tasteless action move"?
Conservative catfights hurt women, everyone
Socialist Worker: Zizek not practical enough to be a Marxist
An appreciation of Terry Southern, author of Dr. Strangeglove
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New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan gears up for fight w/ Catholic gov. Andrew Cuomo over abortion legislation

Where Thomas Nagel went wrong

A list of US colleges that teach young-earth, six-day creationism

More names, more allegations in amended suit accusing Sovereign Grace Ministries of child sex abuse cover-up

The making of Zaytuna, the first Muslim liberal arts college in the US

Christ on bodies: crazy Jesus tattoos

Doug Wilson, slavery, and the problem of placing too high a value on intellectual consistency

Using an MBA and marketing language to reframe and refine the work of the church

Chicago Unitarian Universalists consider selling Frank Lloyd Wright-designed church

Conviction of senior Catholic official for sex-abuse cover-up was result of "show trial," reporter concludes

Considering Joseph Smith's revision of the King James Bible

Malcolm Shabazz, Malcom X's grandson, dies in Mexico following bar fight

Two activist freethinkers in Colo. Springs named Mr. & Mrs. 'None' by local paper

@danielsilliman
Daniel Silliman teaches American religion and culture at Heidelberg Universities' Center for American Studies.

His research is focused on 20th & 21st century evangelical engagements with culture, cultural practices of belief, and religious book history. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on how belief and secularity are represented in contemporary Christian fiction. He has an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Tübingen and a B.A. in Philosophy from Hillsdale College.

He also worked for several years as a newspaper reporter, reporting on crime in Atlanta's Southern Crescent.

He lives in southern Germany with his wife.

E-mail: dsilliman@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

Notable posts

Could charity replace welfare?

If individuals, corporations, foundations, bequests all increased giving by three or four percent, it would be possible to pay for the groceries of all of Georgia's poor, or give them a significant offset in the cost of a one bedroom apartment.

Not both, though.

The 1st Pentecostal scandal

In 1907 in San Antonio, in the heat of July and Pentecostal revival, Charles Fox Parham was arrested.

Francis Schaeffer and the death of Baby Doe

Francis Schaeffer's 1982 message to the Presbyterians at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was pretty simple: the philosophy of modern society is humanism, and humanism means death

Belief about 'belief' in the days of twitter & Beyoncé's baby's name

People are gullible, but gullible to the second degree. That is, gullible about how gullible other people are.

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22. God in Proof, by Nathan Schneider

21. The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

20. Gödel's Proof, by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman

19. The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: Charles Chilton Moore and the Blue Grass Blade, by John Sparks

18. The Great Agnostic, by Susan Jacoby

17. Jesus Hates Zombies, vol. 4, by Stephen Lindsay

16. Companion to Marx's Capital, by David Harvey

15. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

14. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, by Karl Marx

13. Fanpire, by Tanya Erzen

12. Native Guard: Poems, by Natasha Trethewey

11. What's God Got To Do With It? Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State, ed. by Tim Page

10. Fields of Zombies: An Amish Parable, by Sam Lang and Sarah Price

9. Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

8. The Messenger, by Thomas Peele

7. Adam, by Ted Dekker

6. Religion in American Politics, by Frank Lambert

5. The Religious History of America, by Edwin Gaustad and Leigh Schmidt

4. Demon: A Memoir, by Tosca Lee

3. Religious Experience Reconsidered, by Ann Taves

2. Lucifer's Flood, by Linda Rios Brook

1. Faithest, by Chris Stedman

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