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In Christ’s Name: Christian Zionism and the Liquidation of the Gaza Ghetto

…In this metaphor, Protestants and Hebrews cross the Red Sea—and the sea of blood, intertwining into a single, bloody march the miraculous passage through the Red Sea with the later…

Research and Me-Search: A Conversation with the new Catholic Re-Visions Conveners

…of Martín’s story in the center. In the process, I’ve forced myself to have a reckoning with my own cradle Catholicism, “research / me-search” as you sometimes hear people say. …

Season 2, Episode 8: Movies with Liam O’Donnell

In this episode of Assembly, Zac and Amaryah chat about the 2019-2020 movie season with Liam O’Donnell of the film podcast Cinepunx. They talk about Parasite, Uncut Gems, and Portrait…

PTT Dispatches – Dismantled Calais Refugee Camp Is Dark Testament To Our Global Inhumanity (Kieryn Wurts)

…Tower of London. Empires need their ravens. They depend on them, in ways both economic and emblematic. In the Hughes poem, in facing the sea, a Crow faces the searing…

Destabilizing Divine Presence, Fracturing Joy

…of the Advent season—for many, a Sunday marked by the lighting of the “Joy” candle. Of course, this week’s assigned text opens with a ringing call to “sing aloud,” “shout,”…

Assembly, Season 2, Episode 1.1: Whites, Jews, and Us

The Assembly podcast is back for the new year with a new season and a new set of co-hosts, Zac Settle and Amaryah Shaye Armstrong. On part one of this…

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

12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory…

Practice What You Preach

23Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; 3therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do…

Agamben Symposium: Roland Boer

…‘paradigmatic form’ of the ‘governmental machine’. This initial formulation gave me some hope that Agamben’s notorious searches for origins would at least be qualified. Privileged, if not a paradigmatic laboratory,…

Rethinking Easter: Towards Radical Inclusivity

…who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained…

Paradise Found: How War Gives Israel Purpose

…Minister Orit Strook’s description of the period as a “miracle,” in the words of an officer who told his soldiers before entering Gaza that when he set aside the dead

A Church Reforming … Into What?—John 2:13-22

13The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.14In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their…