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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…

Against Cruelty

…policies or movements we support, let us please resist the many forms of cruelty that threaten to destroy such political theological activities from within. Let us resist the deadly metamorphoses…

The Joy of the Lord is our strength—Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

…poet John O’Donohue: On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the…

…privilege tend to become accustomed to a world that conforms to their desires. In modern banking this mode of thinking continues with equally deadly consequences. In 21st century American society,…

Viral and Human Origins

…conceived of and cobbled together. It has too many distinct features, some of which are counterintuitive… You wouldn’t do this if you were trying to make a more deadly virus.”…

Ernst Bloch

…and God is not dead?  Bloch cites the legend on Florian Geyer’s sword, Nulla crux, nulla corona, and seems to read it as a precursor to the anarchist slogan “No…

The End of “Grand Narratives” and America’s “Spiritual Recession”

…God,” which all too many of his acolytes mistakenly interpret as a simple sage of human liberation. Zarathustra proclaimed that once God was dead, the mysterious and in some ways…

Can Water Spring from Dry Land?

…(verse 4). The supplication suddenly blasts open the scene of a nearly deadly conflict, inviting the possibility of a disruptive force that can alter the situation. What at first appeared…