…the Epistle of James, the greatest ancient critique of Paul, put it: “Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead” (James 2:17). Isaiah and Douglass (and James, too)…
…the knowledge of God filling the earth like the seas. However, a closer reading reveals that the reality is considerably more complex. The passage does not say that the nations…
…consistently causes the problems of human hegemony.” Barbara Mann builds on this by articulating the non-anthropocentric, “twinned cosmos of Indigenous America.” Mann’s deadpan style of writing is refreshing as she…
…of Hall, how might political theology understand the national anthem debate, particularly in this political moment when “I can’t breathe” is the deadly refrain of multiple pandemics? The multiplicity resides…
…are dead to the old but not quite yet born to the new, the liminal stage is one where certainties are questioned, hierarchies are upended, and nothing is quite what…
…the just future it pledges. Absent our faith, universal salvation is also precluded. This helps explain the despondency with which those left of center have searched for answers at this…
…value Scripture and the importance of women’s historical leadership must search for a new vision. I suggest that readers engage what Prof. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza refers to as the hermeneutics…
…bring someone back from the dead will elicit the desire to kill Jesus. Why? This power is a threat to the biopolitical apparatus of those in power—the ability and will…
…purist always insists the facts of real life meet the test of a pure moral theory. Does this half-dead man on the road fit my moral agenda for helping others?…
The abominable terrorist bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon on Monday 15 April 2013 that left 3 people dead and injured more than 180 people has shocked the world, and…
…answer is no, since it seems that blasting a path through the undead horde with the shotgun I found in the farmhouse is the only way I can survive. Sincerely,…
…can have two, ultimately deadly, effects on Puerto Rico. The first is that aid to the island is undercut. Yarimar Bonilla has demonstrated that since before Hurricane Maria hit the…