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The Timeless Power of Hope

…able to return home. I’d like to offer a vision of this hope in action, using a scene from the most recent season (season 3) of the show Derry Girls….

…on his way out of Israel, Elijah mimics Moses’ own actions at the Red/Reed Sea. Elijah’s point of departure from his earthly life is roughly the same as Moses’ point…

Prophets Among Us—1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26 and Luke 2:41-52

…“Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety.” 49He said to them, “Why were you searching for…

…to the late American philosopher Richard Rorty, while philosophy has anything to do with truth, it has nothing to do with politics motivated solely by search for improvements, as Protagoras…

Caught in the Undertow

…Nineveh and cry out against it, God says. And so Jonah goes down to Tarshish. Many know this familiar story. God finds Jonah at sea, stirs up a storm, and…

Church and State in Montenegro: between National(istic) and Imperial Policies

…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…

Sitting in Public

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…

Reimagining Curative Eschatology and Disability Justice

…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…

Remembering the Good News

…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…

CFP: Literature and Political Theology

…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…