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The Middle East and the Unintended Consequences of Our “Willful Ignorance”

…result we find ourselves on the threshold, as Christopher Dickey writes in The Daily Beast, of the “next great Middle East War”, a deadly and highly plausible triangulation of the…

<strong>Hunger Strike</strong>

…refusal of the life and the death (deadly synonyms) legally manufactured in the deep recesses of an excrescent law–an admixture of ordinary regulations and exceptional powers–which blurs the distinction between…

The Logic of Love from John 10 and Acts 9–Joe Phelps

…answers to their question. These works– water to wine, feeding the multitude, raising the dead–aren’t simply the razzle-dazzle of impressive displays of power. In John, these miracles are signs more…

The Politics of Choosing A Mate (or Two)—Genesis 29:15-28 (Timothy Simpson)

…if the text’s narrator does not. The reason this has to happen is because Rachel and Leah are still out there. They aren’t just dead characters in an old tale….

The Politics of the Unknown God—Acts 17:16-34 (Alastair Roberts)

…the places where they would live, 27 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one…

The Faith of the Faith/less?

…refusal and withdrawal. This denial leads to both a ‘deadlock’ in practice and a philosophical ‘dream’ of ‘an absolute, cataclysmic revolutionary act of violence’ (213); to a political paralysis awaiting…

Walter Wink’s Blind Spot: Passivity as Resistance

…a supernatural utopia, the kingdom of God, inhabited by the dead come back to life, to enjoy a world forever rid of evil and wholly ruled by God. Further, he…

Jean-François Lyotard

…in order to believe the Holocaust existed (3-4). The impossibility that someone was both present in this deadly room and is able to speak of it annihilates any possibility of…

Weird John Brown and the Uses of Elusiveness (E. Brooks Holifield)

…lend themselves to deadly abuse. And any ethical reflection that remains within the limits of a this-worldly calculation of consequences or duties will find it hard to assess either the…

Call for Applications: Summer Institute in Religion and Global Politics

…in Political Catholicism in contemporary Europe and the United States. For details, contacts and the application procedure, please visit the Institute webpage. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2014….

Democracy No Longer to Come

…new world order,” affectionately known at the time as the NWO. As Posner dryly points out, the NWO is now dead as a doornail. Its death has been accompanied by…

La Santa Muerte and the Characteristic Damage of Canonization

…to their own traditions of sacred ancestral bones. (Chesnut 2012, 29) Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations and La Calavera Catrina show the joyful, cultural tie that Mexicans have with…