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The Politics of Poverty (Proverbs 22 and James 2)

…clothes also comes in, 3and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here, please,” while to the one who is poor…

The Author’s Response, Part 1

…individual/personal/psychological racism drives things. A fatal flaw in my analysis turns out to be a deadly flaw in how it practically gets lived out. Responding, I want to say that…

The Politics of Privilege—Philippians 3:4a-14 (Alastair Roberts)

…somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it…

David’s Political Apology

When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and…

Flashback – What Political Theology Has To Do With Race In America (David True)

…moment, given the circumstances. Jurors are likely to be asked to decide if Michael Brown engaged in conduct that could reasonably be interpreted as constituting a deadly threat. Whatever they…

On Being a Weapon:  Jewishness 431 days into a Genocide 

…to be openly fired over antisemitism is a Jewish professor, who teaches Jewish studies.   It would be a joke if it weren’t also deadly serious.   Of course, this is…

How the First World War Helped Give Rise to Political Theology – Ramón Luzárraga

…with much else of Europe and Asia was reduced to rubble, with millions dead due to war and genocide. Barmen contained the essential feature of the political theology that would…

CFP – Emerging Scholars in Political Theology 2020-2021

…the 2021-2022 cohort, with an application deadline in January 2021.) The Emerging Scholars in Political Theology program is looking for the next generation of creative and thoughtful political theology scholars….

…violence, which conjecturally flows from the profusion of deadly weapons throughout society. As a fallback, partisans in both camps have their own competing preferred, albeit dogmatic, theories about the explanation…

A Retrospective on a Righteous Pagan: The Political Theology of Captain America, Pt. 2 (by Benjamin Wood)

dead ends of moral superiority or isolationism, but it does mean a refusal to be identified with a single cause, nation or ideology. When policy-makers and citizens break through the…

In the Absence of a Liberating God – 50 years after A Theology of Liberation

…more: the continuous creation, never-ending, of a new way to be human, a permanent cultural revolution” (21). Liberation theology is not dead, but like all models of faith and theology,…

…to the Union was to free them and their families. As the chaos of war continued, the Lincoln administration searched for military solutions. Further, she notes that despite the belief…