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Essays

Resistance, Receptivity, and Religious Intermingling

This essay is part of a series on Neena Mahadev’s Karma and Grace.

Spirituality, Politics, and the Other

This essay is part of the Discourses in Spirituality Round Robin.

Political Theologies of Populism

Scholar, activist, and minister Colin Bossen discusses his new book with Michael McLaughlin, shining light on how inclusive visions of populism can draw on religion to deepen democracy

The Politics of Human Dignity

For someone who grew up being told they barely count as human, the idea that God is specifically mindful of them is not a moment of little surprise. It is a life-changing claim.

Remembering Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026)

We invited scholars of politics, philosophy, and theology to help us critically remember Habermas

Religious Indifference and Agonism

This essay is part of a book series on Neena Mahadev’s Karma and Grace.

There Are Always Elites

Hugo Drochon, author of Elites and Democracy, discusses social movements, political transformation, democratic hopes, and populism with Maor Levitin

“Everything in Common”: Pentecost, Happy Bees, and A Remedy to the World’s Grief

Healing the wounds of the world begins at the tossing of seeds in the middle of a city, the falling of flaming tongues on the early church, and the persistent faith, hope, and love that community care provides.

Methodologies and Interventions

This essay is part of a book forum on Neena Mahadev’s book Karma and Grace.

On Jewish-Christian Zionism

Not only does the Bible make no reference to a “State of Israel”—since the concept of the state is a modern political category foreign to the scriptural world—but it is also misleading to speak of a “people” in the modern sense.

To The Ends of the Earth: Politics and Power in Acts 1:6–14

Jesus offers power through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Rather than being consolidated in one place or in one person, this power is dispersed, establishing not a national entity but an ever-expanding community of belonging.

Questioning Inter-Religion

This essay is part of a book series on Karma and Grace by Neena Mahadev.