![Sitting in Public](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Bowden-POS-07-2024.avif)
Jesus doesn’t ban sitting or reclining in public. He encourages it, supports it, and even participates in it.
![Listening to Power’s Fears](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/unseen-histories-bTF3gkd2L28-unsplash-600x450.jpg)
Paying attention to Herod’s fears about Jesus can keep us from depoliticizing the gospel.
![Going Down to the Sea with Job, Psalms, and Shakespeare](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/waves-7611653_1280-600x450.jpg)
The messianic banquet imagined by the Jewish sages nurtures attitudes of respect, blessing, recognition, and wonder. These comportments converge in humility, an earthbound ethic that we practice together, through speech, action, and the work of dwelling.
![Indigenous Identity Caught Between Being the Devil and A Hard Place](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/vlad-tchompalov-cpAKc-G6lPg-unsplash-600x450.jpg)
The politics of identity often has Indigenous persons grappling with the dichotomy of US empire’s labels of the Native American Indian as contaminating evil or contaminated victim. For Indigenous Christians Jesus calls on us to spurn these limiting designations, to embrace the spirit of interdependent creation, which brings us back to a family of justice and life.
![Work, Life, and the Dissent of the Sabbath](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/photo-1515276392627-c70daa2c3b8a.avif)
We were not made for the capitalist subjection that characterizes our lives. The gift of the Sabbath serves us in the present by contesting work’s overlordship and disrupting the social controls by which capitalist hegemony maintains itself.