Devil's Ink: Blog from the Basement Office

"What if Satan kept a blog? Blogging is a new form of communication, after all, and evil has always been keen on using new means of propaganda to accomplish its purposes. Of course, evil is elusive difficult to discern and more difficult to define. Still, since ancient writers first put the Satan figure into the story of Job, or the serpent into the story of creation, evil has been the subject of much of our greatest literature, from fiction to philosophy. This vast output is testimony to the fact that the mystery of evil perplexes and puzzles us, creates daily struggles for us, and continually scars our existence. If we can imagine intentionality behind all the evil in the world not hard to do then the image of Satan blogging to his minions and to all interested parties about the contemporary ways and means of evil is not much of a stretch at all." -- Preface.

Jeffrey C. Pugh is Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University, North Carolina. He is also author of Entertaining the Triune Mystery: God, Science, and the Space Between (2003) and Religionless Christianity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Troubled Times (2008).