John Hickey
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | Raised Irish-Catholic in Philadelphia, I moved to New Hampshire after getting a law degree at West Virginia University. I am back now in Germantown in Philadelphia. My current interest is in trying to psychologically inhabit traditional religious language and trying to contribute to our current cultural understanding of that language as a way to more deeply understand our religious practice. |
| Interests | Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Jesus, Luke 6:37 The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Jesus, Matt 10:7 |
| Favorite movies | Min and Bill (for which Marie Dressler won the Academy Award in 1930), The Awful Truth, The Thin Man, Front Page, 1930s movies generally, even the bad ones, but I like the ones with smart, funny women. More recently; Wings of Desire, North Fork, Little Miss Sunshine. |
| Favorite music | Tinariwen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Cream, Sonny Landreth's "Congo Square" from Grant Street. |
| Favorite books | Donald Barthelme, Judy Budnitz, The collected works of Carl Jung; The Portable Jung, ed., Joseph Campbell; The Diamond Sutra with Commentaries, ed. and trans., Red Pine; The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence of Arabia's personal report of the Middle East as it emerged from the First World War); The Kingdom, by Robert Lacey (the twentieth-century founding of Saudi Arabia); The Idea of Usury: From Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood, by Benjamin Nelson (the history, from Deuteronomy onward, of charging interest on loans, and how that history entwined Judaism with Christianity); The King James Bible; God's Secretaries, by Adam Nicolson (the King James Bible as "irenicon, " using gorgeous ambiguity to evoke assent); Magna Carta: Legend and Legacy, by William Finley Swindler; John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court, by R. Kent Newmyer; Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution, by John Arthur Garraty; The Transformation of American Law 1780-1860, by Morton J. Horwitz, (the bending of law to American economic development); The Common Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (law versus morality); The Nature of the Judicial Process, by Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (law as instrument of policy); A Matter of Interpretation, by Antonin Scalia, (Constitution as Common Law) |