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Reminder: Call for papers deadline June 1, 2019

Political Theology Network Conference New York City October 17-19, 2019 ***Call for Papers Deadline Approaching: June 1 ***Funding Available We invite 200-300 word proposals on political theology broadly understood, ranging…

The Healing Power of Memory

…if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. 45When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he…

The Politics of ‘Doubting Thomas’—John 20:19-31 (Fritz Wendt)

dead. His friends had not known where to reach him, and the funeral had just begun. Shoun walked up and hit the coffin with his staff. “Mother, your son has…

The Politics of the Kingdom of God

…up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. 40He said to them, “Why are you…

The Trickster: Ancient Spirit, Modern Political Theology

…effect of plunging backward, sideward, in all directions led to nausea, but Nietzsche got cause and effect reversed: the universe was not suddenly moving because the old god was dead,…

Crossing Over to the Other Shore—Mark 4:35-41

…up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. 40He said to them, ‘Why are you…

The Queen is Dead: Long Live Some Kind of Republic.

I hate to write like a cynic. I don’t want to be one of those people who spend their lives sneering and jeering condescendingly at people who have invested enormous…

The Politics of a Name—Luke 16:19-31 (Fritz Wendt)

…from the dead, they will repent.” 31 He said to him, “If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises…

The Politics of Resurrection Hermeneutics—Luke 24:36-48 (Mark Davis)

…them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, 47and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to…

The Politics of Border Crossing—John 11:1-44

…had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead. 15 For your sake I…

A fine season I pick to return to the blog: a bit of Easter, a vote on 10-A, oh, and then the death of Osama bin Laden. The interwebs were…

The Miraculous Power of Limitations

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs…