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On the State of Political Theology Today (Ted Smith)

…body that can be conceived as being divided. They ask about the relationships between people and land. They ask about relationships between the living and the dead. They ask about…

The Politics of a Homeland—Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 (Amy Allen)

…too old—and Sarah herself was barren—because he considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many…

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’….

The “Sigh of the Oppressed Creature” in-between Theology and Anthropology

…or searched here. Experience constitutes itself against the empiricism of normality.” (153)   Sölle’s publications fill up with observations that could be characterized as empirical—ethnographic or quasi-ethnographic perhaps—as she draws…

The Postcolonial Temple

…do not fear. 6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the…

A Post-election Confession and Plea (Hollis Phelps)

…I voted for her Republican challenger Thom Tillis, who ended up winning her Senate seat by a slight margin. But as someone whose politics are squarely and unapologetically on the…