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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….

Religion and Civil Society: From Alienation to Constitutive Resistance

…ago the people of north-eastern Arnhem Land, Groote Eylandt, and the Cobourg Peninsula interacted and exchanged with the Muslim Makassans searching for trepangs (sea-slugs). Items exchanged included turtle-shell, pearls, and…

Promises Made, Promises (Actually) Kept

…she judged him faithful who had promised. 12Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and…

From Servitude to Service

…them through the waters of the Reed Sea. Moses’ first order of business after leading them across the sea is to retrace his steps to Sinai so the people can…

From Servitude to Service

…by Pharaoh’s hand by bringing them through the waters of the Reed Sea. Moses’ first order of business after leading them across the sea is to retrace his steps to…

“Our Book of Revelation”: Apocalypse as Temporal Fugue in US Latina Literature

…created by it, and the dead beneath the sea. It can be imagined as looking into the ‘vast and inconsolable’ sea to make visible what was disappeared, and make futurities…

The Love of a Father for a Son

…about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead” (Matthew 17:9b; cf. Mark 9:9), followed by a paragraph of further discussion and explanation. However,…

Nuclear Deterrence: When an Interim Ethic Reaches Its Expiration Date – Laurie Johnston

…age over and over again, in season and out of season, this apostolic message: “Behold, now is the acceptable time for a change of heart; behold! now is the day…

…tragedy, and a miscarrying of justice, compounding an already vast sea of grief. Last year in the wake of Trayvon’s death, peacebuilding scholar and practitioner David Anderson Hooker argued presciently:…

Secularizing Strategies in the Early Middle Ages

…their world, or rather (since getting hung up on questions of whether we can tell what the long dead really thought is a fool’s errand) how they described their world. The kind…