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Essays

The Politics of Saltiness—Matthew 5:13-20 (Amy Allen)

Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world. What would these metaphors have meant to his first hearers?

The Politics of Confrontation and Promise—Micah 6:1-8 (Benjamin Kautzer)

True worship has little to do with the ‘commodification’ of liturgy; it has everything to do with the performative embodiment of God’s redemptive narrative through justice, mercy and fidelity.

The Politics of Inauguration and Surrender—Matthew 4:12-23 (Fritz Wendt)

The call of Jesus to his disciples required a surrender of all they had previously understood their identities to be.