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Attending Across the Divide

1 Happy are those    who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread,    or sit in the seat of scoffers;  2 but their delight is…

What Queer Theory Taught Me About the Saints

…of queer presence, that is, moments of same-sex friendship and love now upheld as models of queerness. We search for reasons to believe that queer people have always been there…

Alienation as a Form of Life: Thoughts on Language

…already been obtained even before the search began, indeed it prompted the search: the ‘missing piece’ is itself a piece. An example for how this works out is seen in…

Attending across the Divide—Psalm 1

1 Happy are those    who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread,    or sit in the seat of scoffers;  2 but their delight is…

Apocalypse After All?

…When the seventh seal cracks, Revelation spirals on through burning trees and poisoned seas lamented by a mourning eagle. The vision pauses with the sun-clothed woman suffering severe birth pains,…

Giving Voice to the Groanings—Romans 8:22-27

…not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. 27And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind…

Resisting Colonial Logic in Christian Thinking

…that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28 For ‘In him we live…

<strong>Baptism and the Gods of Capital</strong>

…Twenty years ago, my neighborhood in Pittsburgh was left for dead by developers and city planners. Trapped in stories of decline prevalent in rust-belt cities. But a collaboration between city…

Remembering Tyler Roberts (1960-2021)

…11, 2021 Dear Tyler, What does it mean to write a letter to the dead? The epistle form dissents from prevailing genres in our fields. It is particular, stamped with…

Pope Francis’ Invocation to Peace – Ramón Luzárraga

…in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.) The two nations continue their tortured relationship, with peace talks currently deadlocked over the same familiar problems, based on the contradictory goals of the…

Genealogy’s Bad Blood

…published the theory of general relativity not long after in 1905. And yet, that they are both symptoms of a shared tradition—a public culture of the living and the dead—would…

Why Not Religious Freedom?

…of religion in public can incur or cause real harm. I used to think that the issue here is fundamentally one of poetics, of translational imagination, of a search for…