![Revisiting Reflections on Relics and Contagion in Two Parts](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1024px-Covid-19_San_Salvatore_09-600x600.jpg)
Life after violence and profound loss requires that we find ways to hold and contain that pain. Relics help us do this. As we wrap them in our words, craft beautiful containers, or place them in vitrines, we keep these memories alive. We acknowledge and respect their ongoing presence in our lives.
![Objectification of Comfort Women and the Theology of #WithYou](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/han-600x600.jpg)
These protests, the victims’ testimony, and the courage of survivors remind us that it is time to turn off the powerful sound of the perpetrators’ dominant voices and tune in to the voices of the oppressed.
![Global Health and Just Peace Ethic for Security Strategy in the COVID-19 pandemic](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Care-for-earth-hands.jpg)
During this global pandemic, a theological imagination contributes to helping us draw on a public health approach to our security strategies and shift focus to a just peace framework.
![A Redemptive Reading of Proverbs 31:10-31 in the Context of the Comfort Women](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/kangfeaturedimage2-600x600.jpg)
The survivors were oppressed and deprived of their freedom, dignity, identity, womanhood, and youth. However, they are now human rights movement activists, teachers, living testimony of the painful history, and much more.
![Preferential Option for the Poor Once More](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Liberation-600x600.jpg)
“Seek ye first the political kingdom of God and all these things shall be given unto you.”
![The Banality of Oppression: Memory, Theology, and the Suffering of Chinese Comfort Women](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/kuo-featured-image-600x534.jpg)
Remembering a future that is habitable for humanity and receptive to justice requires remembering the inconvenient past that, when surfaced, can threaten the status quo.
![Pandemic and Migration](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sebastien-goldberg-AW5MxlFDVzc-unsplash-600x600.jpg)
While the pandemic challenges our physical borders, it simultaneously bridges our differences, revealing that we are all migrants.