What I've Been Reading

 Here is a list of titles that I have been reading over the past few months:

February
 Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology by Albert Borgmann (this is his philosophy of technological culture as it pertains to Christian community).  Very helpful
A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming by Michael Northcott (this is book provides a helpful introduction to global warming as well as a helpful ethical analysis. 
Diversity and Dominion: Dialogues in Ecology, Ethics, and Theology Ed. by Kyle S. van Houtan and Michael Northcott.  (has great essays from scientists, theologians, and social critics on a number of different topics)
On Being Creatures in On Christian Theology (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) by Rowan Williams (in modern theology, the doctrine of creation has fallen by the wayside...Williams picks it up and shows how powerful it is and must be).
Creation in The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology by Peter Scott (Creation is a subversive doctrine that impacts politics...dont believe me, check this essay out)

March
 The Parasite (Posthumanities) by Michel Serres (this book explores how the world is nothing more than a set of parasitic relations.  It is a hard read, because Serres' arguments are elliptical and shrouded in fable.  His aim, I think, is to show how humans are nothing more than parasites...hence the post human part of his work)
In the Beginning...: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Resourcement) by Joseph Ratzinger (a.k.a Pope Benedict XVI) (this is a compilation of four homilies on the creation and fall accounts in Genesis.  It also has an ending summary essay.  It was an act of worship to read this little gem)
Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy by Bruno Latour
Natura Pura, The Invention of the Anti-Christ: A Week With No Sabbath by Conor Cunningham (wow, what a rousing little piece on the idea of autonomous nature...nature is indeed, graced!)
Religion and Secularity in a Culture of Abstraction: On the Integrity of Space, Time, Matter, and Motion in Strange New Word of the Gospel: Re-Evangelizing In The Postmodern World by David L. Schindler

April
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton (explores nature as an ideology and deconstruction...this is where, I think, Zizek gets his ecology from)
Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture by Louis Dupre (a genealogy of how the cosmos has been viewed from the early greeks into modern times.  Nature/Culture dichotomies help shape our modern world.) 
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth  by David Bentley Hart (a stunning essay about a good free loving God and a free creation) 

ONGOING BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUPS:
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture  by Wendell Berry
Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight by Norman Wirzba
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong by Conor Cunningham