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Russell Johnson

Russell Johnson is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on nonviolence, antagonism, and the philosophy of communication.

Essays

My Lai after Fifty Years

What the words of Lt. Calley teach us about how we see (and don’t see) our enemies.

It’s Not for Everybody

To be a public theologian does not mean to do theology for everybody. It is not a matter of speaking from the particular to the universal, but of dwelling within multiple, overlapping particularities and finding theological meaning there.