The ironclad certainty with which accounts of King’s life, thought, and action are given itself evinces a misunderstanding of the questions that animated that life, thought, and action.
It is our critical memory that prompts us to ethical reflection on the anniversary of a grave injustice.
On this, the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, let us not only remember King’s life as prophetic critic but also his advice for living.
In the first beginning, the Word gave form to that which was formless; in this new beginning, the same Word speaks a word and brings peace to men who are afraid.
Our position is that recourse to armed force can only be justified as a last resort.
The power of the redemptive corruption of interdependence is energizing a coalition of trans, queer, immigrant, and disability voices (and their allies) to transform shame, challenge exclusion, and embody the sacred with their spirited practices/politics of toilet justice.
At Easter we should remember that anger and fear cannot win, but that joy can.
If evil is the privation or perversion of a good, the real evil in the old-new Brazilian meaning of “corruption” is the dereliction of the divine goodness in the human neighbor and the nonfeasance neglect of God’s living presence amid the oppressed.
A toilet-seat protest displays the inextricable entwinement of white supremacy and cis supremacy, taking its place in the long pedigree of toilet-centered fears and bigotry.
As we are prepared to empty ourselves, we can experience “the beginning of the other”, the Reign of God.
This guest editorial introduces the recently published special issue of Political Theology focused on Jacques Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars.