Articles for tag: desire, love, marriage-and-monogamy

August 26, 2024

twhoshaw

What does love want? Our in-fidelity.

Kylie Minogue, “All The Lovers” (music video still), 2010. The music video of Kylie Minogue’s hit song, “All the Lovers” (2010) raises two questions for me: 1) What does love want? 2) What can we do about it? Watch the video: The video opens with a cup of coffee falling, splashing empty on the ground (and a man taking off his shirt); a container of milk drops, spilling out on the ground (and two more people take off their clothes), and white marshmallows light on the ground as Minogue sings to her beloved, to her love object: someone who is apparently

August 22, 2024

twhoshaw

What makes us human? The Thing.

Mother and Child – Egon Schiele, 1914 A quick thought: One way to think about injustice (what Christians often call “sin”) is as what happens when we deny what is intractable, insistent, human: violence/sexuality. One way to think about the “conversions” of both Saint Paul and Saint Augustine is as types of fleeing from one or another of those things or “the thing.” What would happen if we started where Ibram Kendi does in Stamped from the Beginning, with the refreshing assumption that nothing is wrong with us? In this context, what would happen if we acknowledged, soberly and honestly,

July 18, 2024

twhoshaw

Political Desire: A Challenge for U.S. Democracy

Political desire into democracy will not go. Political desire feeds on the ideal. It does not compromise. It hates frustration. It must have exactly what it wants, its ideal, or . . . else. Democracy is perpetually threatened by a people’s political desire. Saint Paul offers us something different: a redeemed political desire.