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Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun

The school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left seventeen students and teachers dead, has reignited the debate about gun control and the Second Amendment…

…than that–his name stirs the passions just like the name Jeremiah Wright does in today’s politics. As for the latter, because Judas is now dead, there’s an opening on the…

Political Theologians: Lauren Olamina and Ramakrishna Paramahansa

…adulthood, as a priest apprentice in the temple.  His interest in the non-elitist, performative interpretations of religion led to his search for God not entirely as an abstract entity. For…

…even if God is dead, we’ve still got sex. A more precise formulary might be that we’ve still got psychoanlysis. What psychoanalysis does, Westerink concludes, is not “solve” anything at…

<strong>A Decolonial Reading of the Post-Resurrection Event</strong>

…boundaries that he has created for himself. After all, Jesus was crucified and he is dead. This is the familiar knowledge that Thomas can access. Again, decoloniality is all about…

Love’s Agency

…last decade such that a startling number of people believe the world would be a better place if their political opponents were dead. Something like one-fifth of Americans wish President…

Reflections from Summer 2021 Emerging Scholars Gathering

…and the dead, among other topics. These transdisciplinary entanglements brought projects of translation to the forefront of group discussions as participants interrogated the limits of communication not only between religious and…

The Problem Of Wealth Involves Its Production As Much As Its Distribution

…the marketplace required money as a medium of exchange, which functioned as a powerful temptation to greed, and which later Christian theologians catalogued as one of the seven deadly sins….

Where’s Charlemagne When We Need Him?  By Istvan Deak

…majority of people who have trouble with languages and for whom finding employment abroad is quite difficult. Because Latin is dead, a living lingua franca will have to be chosen…

John Howard Yoder And The New Prospects For A Christian Politics (Jonathan Cole)

searching time for Christians on the left. If early signs are any indication – the Berkley riot comes to mind – then the Ying to Trump’s Yang looks set to…

Simon Critchley on “The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology”

…expression is the only mode under which he can conceive life at all. To him what is dumb is dead. But to Christ it was not so. With a width…

Women Prevailing Against Limited Vision

…must search for a new vision. I suggest that readers engage what Prof. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza refers to as the hermeneutics of (the interpretive practices that tend to) domination, re-membering,…