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Essays

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.

Remembering Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026)

We invited scholars of politics, philosophy, and theology to help us critically remember Habermas

Religious Indifference and Agonism

This essay is part of a book series on Neena Mahadev’s Karma and Grace.

There Are Always Elites

Hugo Drochon, author of Elites and Democracy, discusses social movements, political transformation, democratic hopes, and populism with Maor Levitin

“Everything in Common”: Pentecost, Happy Bees, and A Remedy to the World’s Grief

Healing the wounds of the world begins at the tossing of seeds in the middle of a city, the falling of flaming tongues on the early church, and the persistent faith, hope, and love that community care provides.

Methodologies and Interventions

This essay is part of a book forum on Neena Mahadev’s book Karma and Grace.

On Jewish-Christian Zionism

Not only does the Bible make no reference to a “State of Israel”—since the concept of the state is a modern political category foreign to the scriptural world—but it is also misleading to speak of a “people” in the modern sense.