…rocks. But polite silence is not solidarity (ibid, p. 239); imperialistic intervention and wholesale acquiescence are both dead-ends. However, once we know and have witnessed we are called by the…
…have become especially concrete today. We keep our distance, for fear of contracting and spreading a deadly disease. Our presence with one another is increasingly two-dimensional, as we connect through…
…to these liberals) can become tolerable as dead only. For those of us who understand Islam in all its multiplicity and as a way life, the hope of receiving any…
…or an argumentative foil. It is therefore strange that political theology has had so little to say about atheism. Whereas the language of “secularization” speaks in the deadpan tone of…
…scene of slaughter runs directly contrary to the biblical tale, where the shibboleth functions as a technology for genocide (42,000 killed—and that’s just the men, the only dead who count…
…a witch. The novel features a deadpan style that presents Lolly’s escape as the realization of daydreams that appear absurd to others. But having escaped, Lolly finds—and arguably converts to—a…
…Did they want to be dead before they got a serious hearing? I doubt it very much. Recognition in their own lifetimes would have been a much more acceptable outcome…
…in endeavoring toward a just society. McAllister and Napolitano proffer a call for political theologians to “learn to listen to the dead of the Americas” and to make recourse to…
…too old—and Sarah herself was barren—because he considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many…
…protect himself and was armed at all times – who was shot dead at his own doorway, his wife beside him. Clearly, simply being a good guy with a gun…
…– pestilence in the form of the deadly Ebola epidemic and war in the guise of the unimaginably brutal, but militarily successful armies of the Islamic State – are galloping…
…bait. Elton Simpson, 30, and Nadir Hamid Soofi, 34, showed up at the event in body armor and opened fire. Both were shot dead. One security guard was wounded. The…