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Elyse Cooke

Elyse Cooke earned her Master of Divinity degree from Emory University's Candler School of Theology with a concentration in Scripture and Interpretation. She currently works as a part-time hospital chaplain and full-time elementary school teacher. She is on the ordination track in the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). She resides in Michigan with her spouse, Dr. Caralie Cooke, and their two dogs.

Essays

Listening to the Call

Listening and responding is a blueprint for us all: it’s amazing and wise to discern God’s leading in the context of community. 

Humanity beyond the human: Theorizing War with Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said

I am interested in this sense of the ordinary, ongoing strike. This humble strike—not necessarily modest but rather close to the ground—could involve a politics of refusal and boycott, where those terms could be understood not only as negatives, but also as holding space for a new international community, and thus connecting explicitly something already connected or entangled in practice.