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A New Identity for God’s People

…easy. It is deadly, and scary. Yet, Thangalaan says, “rather than die under those who discriminate against us based on our birth, it is better to die trying to change…

Embodying Compassion—Mark 6:30-56

sea. He intended to pass them by. 49But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out; 50for they all saw him…

The Politics of Falling Back—John 21:1-19 (Robert Williamson)

After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way. 2 Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas…

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity….

Superstorms and the Demise of Prudence

…a trillion-dollar asset situated at sea level yet somehow immune to the danger that the sea might ever burst its banks. Yet around 8 PM on Monday, October 29 (the…

…1:1-18), this verse has been a call and response litany in my congregation’s mid-week worship for the season of Advent. The light shines in the darkness—and, of course, as we…

Pacific Resistance Unmasking the Old Normal in the Era of Covid 19

…of expression, freedom of association, and protection from arbitrary search and seizure.” Similar “emergency” actions have been taken by the government in Vanuatu and Samoa. The region’s dependency on tourism…

Discovering Easter Joy—Mark 16.1-8

…Where is death? Seek it in Christ, for it exists no longer; but it did exist and now it is dead. O life, O death of death!” [St. Augustine, Sermon…

Assembly, Season 2, Episode 1.2: Houria Bouteldja, Part Two

In this episode, we pull Houria Bouteldja’s 2018 PTN Conference keynote out the PTN vault as a complement to the previous episode’s discussion of Bouteldja’s book, Whites, Jews, and Us….

God’s Clean Water Act

…violently from inhabitants and spreading disease, displacement, and destruction from sea to sea. In similar ways, especially in recent generations, humans have grown exponentially in our propensity and power to…

On this episode of Assembly, Amaryah and Zac chat with Matthew M. Harris and Tyler B. Davis about their essay “In the Hope That They Can Make Their Own Future:…

Assembly, Season 2, Episode 2: Ross Gay’s Book of Delights

On this episode of Assembly, Zac and Amaryah talk with the poet, essayist, and professor Ross Gay about his recent Book of Delights, and the explorations of politics, finitude, and…