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PTT Dispatches

PTT Dispatches is an occasional feature of our online publication when someone has some interesting, personal observer commentary on current events around the world. PTT dispatches are more in the mode of “citizen journalism” and less in the genre of expert commentary.

Essays

PTT Dispatches – Reflections On Trump, America, And “Eurocentrism” From The Sand Dunes Of A Remote Dutch Island (Carl Raschke)
PTT Dispatches – Taking The Mystery Train To The Global “Street Party” That Is God’s Kingdom (Kieryn Wurts)
In Memoriam: Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas and the Journey of Theology Toward the Future

The prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon (Ecumenical Patriarchate) passed in Athens, on February 2, 2023.

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity. At which point does the unavoidable vulnerability of the living condition come to expression as political agency? Can such precarious politics constitute or configure an alternative community?