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Can the language that we use and take for granted be such a problem for public theology? As we search for a vision, a sense of purpose, a dream that…

The Super Bowl?  (Part 2 of a dialogue about religion, sports, and capitalism)

…through the activity of sport: sacrifices to Zeus and military“cease-fires” during competition and, importantly, the necessity of performing potentially deadly activities nude. What we see at work in Sport today…

Quentin Meillassoux

…world-configuration, cosmic “immanence is not of this world” (2010, 468). And while, in this world, God is dead or does not exist, and all death is final, a messianic world…

PTN 2021: The Year in Review

…by an editorial collective of ten experts from around the world. (While the official CFP deadline for the keywords series has passed, queries are still welcome – more information here.)…

Pyrrhic Victories and the Bread of Life—2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33; Psalm 130; Psalm 34:1-8; John 1:43-51

dead.” In Christ we have more, for, in the Word and sacrament, we can break bread with him who lives and abides forever. No win nor loss or “winner’s curse”…

The Politics of Choice: Deuteronomy 30:15-20

…voice of a later generation is similar to what therapists do with victims of abuse whose perpetrator is dead or otherwise unavailable. Moses, voicing the the anxiety and frustration of…

dead and hundreds have been wounded. Provocative anti-Islam cartoons are published in France by Charlie Hebdo magazine as a preemptive counter-strike at Muslims in the name of ‘freedom of expression’….

Hong Kong “Freedom Cunt”: Sexual Violence and Crucifixion

…of the dead body, the women witnesses in Galilee did everything they could to spread the truth from their compassion. They refused to let the Roman Empire define the worth,…

A Pre-Emptive First Strike Against North Korea?: A Reply to John Bolton

…three nautical miles from a nation’s shores, since cannonballs from enemy ships could not threaten the homeland from further out at sea. By contrast, in our nuclear armed, ballistic-missile age,…

When Love is Forbidden, Resilience Becomes Inevitable

…with underlying ideologies of control over female bodies and are discriminatory and deadly, she is convinced that she will make it to the mountains. The control over her body will…

Gaza through a Mother’s Lens

deadlock. I hug him briefly. I thank him in my heart for not asking me about God, or the connection between God and what is happening in Gaza. He adds…

…perpetual so that it would not become destabilized through the changing of hands (i.e. “The King is Dead; Long Live the King”). In today’s neoliberal market, those sovereign attributes—and the…