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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…

From Mountaintops to Valleys

…Son of Man had risen from the dead. Mark 9:2-9 The unsettling splendour of the transfiguration, the needs of the world and the disciples’ despair, are all captured by Mark…

…has no works, is dead, being by itself.” James writes this after he has excoriated classism within the church, where the rich were being given preferred seating and treatment and…

Books Forthcoming in Winter/Spring 2014

…at once fiercely critical, ironic, contemptuous, erudite, and enlightening as he engages thinkers both living and dead on the relationship between blood and its many metaphoric and literal representations. This…

Between Nostalgia and Critical Memory

…With hands clasped about the pulpit, I looked out onto empty pews, imagining the countless people who had filled those seats over the decades. I shuddered ever so slightly, remembering…

The Politics of Hannah’s Opened Womb—1 Samuel 1:4-20; 2:1-10 (Alastair Roberts)

…than ten sons?’ 9 After they had eaten and drunk at Shiloh, Hannah rose and presented herself before the Lord. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside…

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….