Four scholars discuss their books published for the Transforming Political Theologies book series.
The White House report on the Smithsonian is not a correction of the historical record but a theology of it, reviving the covenant grammar that once made conquest read as providence. Against its demand for absolution without confession stands the one act that actually costs: returning the dead.
Remembering that our current lives are being lived during the time of the kingdom allows us the humility to see each individual moment as being equally beautiful, equally meaningful, and equally essential to prepare for the harvest.
Benjamin Davis responds to Zahi Zalloua’s review of his new book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025).
Before the hope emerges, however, toxic dynamics and problematic patterns in inherited histories need to be excavated, named, and redressed.
Zahi Zalloua responds to Benjamin Davis’s review of his new book, To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian (2026)
With Pope Leo’s recent declaration of just war being “outdated,” Eli McCarthy pens a letter from just war theory, asking to be let go.
Benjamin Davis reviews Zahi Zalloua’s new book, To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian (2026).
Moral imagination, standing up even when afraid, is required to provide empathetic welcome to prophets, righteous people, and “these little ones.”