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The Wrestling Itself is the Point: A Response to Joshua Leifer

…embrace Jewish peoplehood in its response to October 7, among other moral shortcomings. Orthodox Judaism, then, represents Leifer’s escape-hatch from the disappointments and dead-end dalliances of his youth, and the…

Call for Papers – Religions: “Political Theology and Pluralism”

…concepts of pluralism, secularism, liberalism, etc. in a theological and philosophical light. The deadline for manuscript submission is June 1, 2019. Please visit the following link for more information: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/PoliticalTheology…

Video Visitation In Prisons Violates Not Just Peoples’ Rights But Natural Law (Greg Williams)

…of creation in the first place. Thomas Aquinas writes, for example, that at the Resurrection of the dead “the brightness of the body will show forth the quality of the…

Politics of Matthew 21:33-46 (The Parable of the Oppressed Tenants)

…and are yet being demonized as economic dead weight; they have upheld their agreements but have been defrauded by banks and lenders. Still, our political and economic leaders clamor for…

White Catholics and “Law and Order Catholicism”

…that police are the only people preventing present society from looking like a scene out of The Walking Dead. “Law and order,” in this view, can be read as the…

The Wisdom of the Serpent and the Harmlessness of the Dove (Jeremy Sabella)

…and Nagasaki bombings took place in August of 1945). With millions dead and the world order in shambles, the distinction between the children of light and the children of darkness…

Christo-Capitalism or Capitalanity? David Brat’s Political Theology

…is dead set on the idea that the church must come to happy terms with capitalism if it intends to make any ‘change’, but then again he seems to resist…

…One and asked to have a murderer given to you, 15and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.” (emphases added)…

A Just War ‘No’ to Bombing Syria

…largest mass killing of the Syrian civil war, and most likely the deadliest chemical weapons attack since Saddam Hussein’s troops killed thousands of Kurds with sarin gas during the waning…

…Does such knowledge bring peace to the dead? I hope not. The mourners come with candles and flowers, and fragments of prayer and despair mingle with smoke and with ash….

The Politics of the Forerunner

…at the hands of Herod who wanted Jesus dead. Both the Advent and Candlemas readings can make it appear that Christ conforms to the prophecy of Malachi. But this is…

…us to continue to work in mindless, dead-in jobs where we are disconnected from human interaction and sit in front virtual horizons of simulacrum. Before we really enter the workforce,…