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The Hajj Stampede Is Nothing New, But Raises Questions About The Future of Muslim Pilgrimage

…30% of the dead – 228 at the current count – were Iranian, which has further soured the perennially cool relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. What is the likely…

…shot dead Father James Coyle for marrying his daughter to a Puerto Rican, was acquitted and continued to preach the gospel.[5] Alabama was the national center for religious terrorism, with…

Is Sexual Abuse Torture? (Cristina Richie)

…those in power to claim that sexual abuse is not torture, it is devastating to the thousands of sexual abuse survivors, and deadly to dozens each year. Putting a hedge…

Possessed by Jesus

seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, with the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the…

Taking Exception: Paul Kahn Rocks the Liberal Boat

…it.) So what’s theological about it? Nothing at all in any traditional sense of theology. Prof. Kahn teaches law at a secular law school and would not be caught dead

…case of a TV celebrity (now dead for 12 months), whose reputation has been torn to shreds in the last few weeks, as it has come to light that he…

…others. And in each case, the powerless lover died: Ahab killed Naboth; David killed Uriah; and with or without Simon’s help Jesus ended up dead, too. The powerless were martyred…

The Trump Shall Sound: Politics, Pentecostals, and the Shofar at the Capitol Riots

…dancing to the Contemporary Christian culture war anthem “God’s Not Dead” on January 6th, 2021 confounded many outside observers, but those familiar with the Pentecostal and charismatic communities who tie…

Call for Papers – The Spirit of Populism

…both the roles of theology in populism and the roles of populism in theology. The conference will take place September 2-3, 2019. The deadline for submissions April 5, 2019. Please…

Sharing the Griefs of the World When Only Some Are Deemed Grievable – Annie Selak

…the bombings, they were not fully seen as lives. If we cannot value someone as living, we cannot mourn when they are dead. Butler posits familiarity as the guiding force…

The Politics of Agency—Acts 16:16-34 (Amy Allen)

…Certainly, Paul has been a party to escapes in the dead of night before. One might even expect that this is what God had in mind—causing the earthquake so that…

Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances

…we speak of Islām and anarchism as singular formations and interpretations when Islām and anarchism are “dead” because neither are monoliths or unified belief systems? Discourses around Muslims and Islām…