…does not mean, of course, that there have been no attempts of ecclesiastical seats to assume such power. Indeed, just as the seat of Rome infused the universalist aspirations to…
1 After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A large crowd kept following him because they saw…
…certain rituals, sacred time would interrupt ordinary time. This notion of sacred time is what Caroline Lieffers and Chelsea Chamberlain suggest can be enacted within “crip time.” But, as Taylor…
…me into trouble last spring in a sermon is totally mainstream. It was a sermon about love, riffing on one of the never-ending readings from John in the season of…
…has made him known. John 1:1-18 In her book Beyond Monotheism, Laurel Schneider deftly threads together three needles–postcoloniality, multiplicity, and process theology–in search for a “divinity beyond the Logic of…
…The Book of the Dead We especially encourage symposia and essays that are experimental or unexpected; that approach familiar texts in new ways; that are in conversation with social justice…
…This confusing narrative leaves one wondering whether or not David was anointed while Saul was still alive or dead. Another element located is that God was regretful for making Saul…
…will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow; he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.” (Psalm 7:12-13 NRSV) “Rise up, O LORD, confront…
…labels “Lockean natural lawyers” and “Jeffersonian separatists,” and suggests that it is these two who dominate the political discussion in contemporary America, and deadlock it by their mutual incomprehension. Although…
…But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back each of you to your mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead…
…replacement of the diversity lottery visa system with a visa based on “merit.” Most analysts believe that the proposal is “dead on arrival” in Congress. Immigration activists and most Democrats…
…integrate into a unified narrative” (29). Winters’ analysis, by showing how unified narratives problematically evade wounded bodies, allows us to interrogate and mourn how the dead are disrespected. I therefore…