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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…

Imagining the (Theological) Whole

…no place—no social institution—capable of imagining the whole. That office once belonged to, of all institutions, the science of theology. Finding the Real Problem So, we are searching (see Jeffrey…

The Politics of Being Replaced—Deuteronomy 34:1-12 (Timothy Simpson)

…as far as Dan, 2 all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, 3 the Negeb, and the Plain—that…

Speaking of God in Suffering—Job 42:1-6, 10-17

…speak of the God of life when cruel murder on a massive scale goes on in “the corner of the dead”? How are we to preach the love of God…

Lament As Subversive Prayer

…tireless and courageous efforts for the cause of peace and justice in the context of Rwandan genocide. He shared Oscar Romero’s unfortunate fate as well, eventually being shot dead in…

Abolition

…save us. If we don’t save ourselves, we’re dead,” she insists — aware that neoliberalism depends on state neglect, on what Ruth Wilson Gilmore terms organized abandonment. “Now use your…

From the Archives: Zionism and Genocide

…politically consequential for twentieth-century Jews.” Sean Durbin, Mediating the Past through the Present and the Present through the Past: The Symbiotic Relationship of American Christian Zionists’ Outsider and Insider Enemies in…

Listening to Power’s Fears

14 King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’s name had become known. Some were saying, “John the baptizer has been raised from the dead, and for this reason these powers…

Islamophobia: The Racial Paradox

…all of these and more result from the failure to recognize what should be obvious: racism. These are the fruits of the deadly racial paradox, sustained as it is by…

A Widow’s Presence

seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 41He sat…