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Franklin Tanner Capps

Franklin Tanner Capps serves as Director of the Miller Summer Youth Institute at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Previously, he served on the faculty of the Honors College, University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Essays

Right Nightmares

Those who commit dehumanizing acts of violence—whether through physical harm, abusive exploitation, or benign neglect—themselves become debased and subhuman, even as they sit in positions of power. Indeed, Micah puts this in sharp relief … where he depicts the corrupt “leaders and rulers” as ravenous animals who cannibalize those who the Lord has placed in their care.

Wilderness Kingdom

There can be no coherent concept of home, it would appear, apart from borders and boundaries that at once enclose and exclude. This suggests that those without a home … somehow exist beyond the insider–outsider binary that the rhetoric of “home” delineates.

Capital Losses

When we attempt to wrest human capital from exploitive, for-profit hands, there will be hell to pay. Does the church have the courage to bear it?

Palestine and Political Theology Event

The journal Political Theology will host an event on “Palestine and Political Theology” April 4 at 2pm eastern.

Capital Losses

When we attempt to wrest human capital from exploitive, for-profit hands, there will be hell to pay. Does the church have the courage to bear it?