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Han Byung-Chul

…(Topology of Violence, 104). The doping culture of the achievement society absolutizes competition within the self. They are the undead, not because they are able to be killed without repercussion…

In the Time of King Herod—Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12 (Amy Allen)

…5Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and rejoice, because the abundance of the sea shall be brought to you, the wealth of the nations shall…

Abstraction

…from time and space by a ruthless disregard for material historical processes,” its coupling of the “slave and human” in deadly antagonism is represented as a betrayal of historical materialism…

Jesus and the Economics of Scarcity

…is deadly, and with the ever increasing gap between the rich and the poor, life expectancy for the poorest is shrinking. She was writing this before the global pandemic of…

When Faithfulness to God Hurts Our Neighbor

…the dead (Hebrews 11:17–9). As early as the 2nd century CE, Christian interpreters such as Melito of Sardis also began to see in Isaac a type of Christ—both characters willingly…

…the Latin verb transcendo (trans + scando), which means to climb or rise over. It is, if you like, a dead metaphor, a word whose original metaphoric function has been…

The Politics of Transfiguration: Transformation’s Shadow Side (Luke 9:28-36)

…expression. Inquiries and submissions may be sent to [email protected].] In the lectionary, Transfiguration follows the season of Epiphany with one last display of light. The lights flare brilliantly and momentarily…

The Politics of 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14

…These include David’s nephew, Joab, whose men had killed David’s other son, Absalom, as well as Shimei, the relative of the dead King Saul who had cursed David when he…

Passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

…planet’s growing bubble of greenhouse gas is changing the climate, producing an overall warming of global temperatures, increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, melting icecaps, raising sea levels, extending…

Friendship in Dark Times: Fragments on Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Literatures

…Muslims is in deep shit. Since I am not a dead woman walking in the streets of Gaza in search of her beloved, I’m rather busy trying to measure the…

Rethinking Genealogy, Rethinking Race

…decidedly not biological, and if treating it as such has patently deadly social and ecological effects, is there an ongoing attachment to narrating racial identity through biology? What is the…

A Sensuous Eastertide

season of Easter is a season of resurrection, and there is space for all to find God in a sensuous disruption to the regular rhythms and patterns of each day….