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Essays

The Spirits of Extraction: An Interview with Claire Blencowe

We interviewed Claire Blencowe on her new book, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism, and the Geology of Race.

Another Humanity, or a Plea for the Death Drive

Zahi Zalloua reviews Benjamin Davis’s new book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025).

An Indigenous Woman’s Reading of Hagar

To be faithful to God’s promised covenant for communal flourishing, faith communities must reject the recycled rhetoric of “blood and soil” that is rapidly turning white supremacy into normalized governmental policy and practice.

Movements Grow Slow and Steady

Insiders and those most similar are invited into the movement first, and then, if meaningful and urgent enough to others expands to those beyond the insiders. The expansion of God’s Realm in Matthew is built slow and steady, an example we have much to learn from.

Pluralism and the Theopolitics of Inter-Religion

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

In Which Spirituality Gets a Makeover

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

Born Again Queer: An Interview with William Stell

An interview with William Stell regarding his new book, Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity.

Hospitals for the Healthy

Jesus presents himself as a physician, and offers one of his most programmatic statements of ethics. The sick need a doctor, not the healthy. Why then does church seem designed for the already well?

Resistance, Receptivity, and Religious Intermingling

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