Music, media and entertainment---how you want,
when you want, where you want.
S M T W T F S
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
2
 
3
 
4
 
5
 
6
 
7
 
8
 
9
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
27
 
28
 
29
 
30
 

This Newly Born-Again Rice Professor Calls Texas a “Wonderful Idea”

Tags: texas
DATE POSTED:October 10, 2024
Timothy Morton's Hell bookOne ordinary evening in March 2023, while serving spaghetti at the family dinner table, Timothy Morton experienced a road-to-Damascus moment. “I palpably ‘saw’ that my whole life had been a prodigal-son-style cosmic joke,” the Rice University English professor writes in Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology, published earlier this year. “I thought I had been transcending Christianity in the most decisive ways possible, only to find that the last thirty-seven years had been training me to receive a massive (I mean, massive) dose of it.”Morton, who is 56 and uses they/them pronouns, considered themself a Buddhist for much of their adult life. Between writing 25 books—on subjects ranging from Romantic poetry to ecological philosophy—they had been on a spiritual journey out of a childhood…

The post This Newly Born-Again Rice Professor Calls Texas a “Wonderful Idea” appeared first on Texas Monthly.

Tags: texas