This was a riff on the familiarly Aristotelian concept of the monstrous birth, in which a child came out lacking resemblances to his mother and father (mainly his father)—a kind of monstrous rebirth, in which the work of semen and gestation was written over by the work of alien suckling.
Cara Rock-Singer examines what reproductive processes reveal about religious and political life and shows how Jewish tradition is transmitted and reinvented through the ongoing labor of reproduction.
Who are you: a tasty morsel or unpalatable fibre? Choose wisely, because the dinner bell is ringing.
Progressive Catholic commentators persistently interpret Pope Leo XIV as a character in America’s resistance to Donald Trump. His July 4 visit to Lampedusa implies that he is conveying a significantly larger narrative.
If you call someone to turn back to dust, you must prepare to be called upon in return.
The presence of technological elites in the Vatican at the release of Magnfica Humanitas indicates a shift in perspective concerning democracy. Put bluntly, it is not just human labor that is at stake; democracy hangs in the balance.
Davidson’s Saving Utopia narrates the decline and renews the call for utopic vision, but, if we forget the imbrication of heaven with hell—of utopia with dystopia—we will be doomed to repeat it.
The economy of Spirit, like God’s polity, is countercultural. The way out of the trap of living within the lie that the world is defined by boundaries shaped by tyranny and obedience to it, is to tell the truth that life demands freedom and creativity, valuing relationships over material things.
Pope Leo’s call for disarmament goes so far as to claim that Catholic teaching on just war theory is outdated and needs to be replaced by dialogue and diplomacy. Could the same be said for Catholic teachings on sex and gender?
Tonda’s book bears many fruits, but vernacular religion might reveal a different spiritual drama at work in late capitalism than the one the book provocatively stages.
A Christianity fashioned in the image of white national belonging cannot hold the fullness of the church.
What if life was so confusing and so difficult because we stand at the center of some cosmic conspiracy that divides every aspect of reality into theological categories of good and evil?