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Contagion, a Lament

…wasn’t dead, because he was white, because he was old. My dreams prove otherwise. These recurring nightmares about Martin Gugino and the police who almost killed him have me wondering if…

The Politics of Persistence—Luke 18:1-8 (Lynn Huber)

…justice through the courts, along with protests and social media efforts in which the names of the dead are repeated. #TrayvonMartin #TamirRice #EricGarner #PhilandoCastile #KeithScott The judge in the parable…

Political Science Contributions to Centering Nonviolence

…the dead. Mass rape almost always accompanies war. The same goes for refugees, famine, disease, violent crime, human rights abuses, infrastructure collapse, and environmental destruction. Warfare typically sets a country’s…

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 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…

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…