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The Tree Is Always Known By Its Fruit

…into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, 3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat…

The Politics of Saving Everybody—Genesis 9:8-17 (Timothy Simpson)

…the Father.—Philippians 2:9-11   But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. For since death came through a human being,…

…by the American war machine, ameliorate poverty, reform a racist and unjust judicial system, and empower communities can often seem like a dead end street, but the light of hope…

Confronting the Existential Crisis of Political Theology

In this prolonged season of death and terror, it was perhaps easy to overlook the loss of Ernesto Cardenal, the mystic, poet, priest, and liberation theologian who died at 95…

Are We ISIS? (Ian Almond)

“When all the women were dead, the jihadists burned their bodies inside the houses. After they had finished with the women, the jihadists went back to …where they had locked…

Viral Sovereignty

…at risk of deadly infection. If this is not an exception, I’m not sure what is. Exceptional politics—the verdant soil of political theology from Weimar Germany to post 9/11 United…

Mourning

…the death that occasions grief, but grievous ways of living that submerge perception of pain and loss in a sense of inevitability. In Banerjee’s words, “The dead haunt us to…

Gratuitous Violence

…as socially dead in relation to the rest of the world” (Red, White, and Black, 17-18). Wilderson’s use of the terms “a priori” and “contingency” to describe the “appear[ance]” of…

CFP: The American Election 2012: Contexts and Consequences

…e-mail, wholder@anselm.edu. The deadline for submissions is 8 December 2012. Within four weeks after the deadline, the organizers will notify all those who submitted proposals of their decisions. Please be…

Looking for Seeds amid Stumps

…one of the crucial motors of ecological renewal. Dead stumps are destined once again to become thriving trees. This duality of the stump as both remnant of death and cradle…

Performing Indifference: On Atheism and Political Theology

…in the shadow of Christianity. Nietzsche might have recognized such a tendency, when he elliptically opined in The Gay Science, “After Buddha was dead people showed his shadow for centuries afterwards…

Uncertain Hope

…did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10Then the disciples returned to their homes. 11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she…