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Essays

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.

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.