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Essays

Jesus the Great Disruptor of Social Imagination

Jesus reminds us that his ministry is a disruptive one, one that is intended to allow for an awakening to justice and hospitality towards all.

Theological Niceties and Complicities in Economic Theology

The society of commodity producers that Marx described continues to expand its mystifying in a world that commodifies all things, including the eucharist, the activism of indigenous communities, and the future.

Promises Made, Promises (Actually) Kept

The democratic experiment of the last few hundred years is itself simply a promise: that a people can make decisions on how to live together.

Big Beautiful Barns

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” proves little more than another big beautiful barn—a grandiose spectacle that obscures the damage inflicted on society’s most vulnerable communities.

Challenging the Presumption of Divine Favor

Those who presume upon God’s support but act in ways that defy God’s standard will find their presumption turned upside-down in divine disavowal.

Centering Active Nonviolence in Catholic Social Teaching – Webinar Event, August 11, 12-1pm eastern

Join recent Catholic Re-Visions contributors as they engage the relationship between nonviolence and Catholic social teaching in these times.

The Politics of God’s Sanctuary

God’s sanctuary as a tent and God’s residence in a tent suggest that God is a sojourning God who accompanies people, offering an encampment with and among the communities on their journeys of life.

Two Deadly Sins: The Spiritualization of Poverty and the Patronization of the Needy

The lectionary texts for this week call us to recognize and pursue a spirituality that is holistic; a spirituality that cares for the needs of the poor; a spirituality that takes the side of the needy against the powerful; a spirituality that entails a revolution of the heart; and a spirituality that takes the question of neighbourliness seriously. Such a spirituality would put us on the path of revolutionary neighbourliness.

From the Messy Middle

The planetary activities that spill out beyond the shape of any single form of life, full of uninvited faces, are what Sylvia Wynter calls the “necessary and indispensable preludes” to the emergence of our new self-awareness, to the development of new forms of life.

Allegory or Autobiography?

Sometimes the most I can be grateful for is that it is still possible to imagine an alternative.

Counter-Worlds: Rastafari Sovereignty

The work of autonomous Rastafari world-makers is instructive for continuing to think about the type of resilience, risk, and endurance it takes to ensure the survival of our human species and our planetary home in the face of authoritarian governance.