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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,…

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…

Unity of Being against State and Capital

…sacred sovereignty that radically differed from, but also intersected with, modern imperial state sovereignty. His epic ripples across the Arabian Sea. In hearing his story, we follow the travels of…

The Politics of Widows’ Gifts—Mark 12:38-44 (Jan Rippentrop)

…have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40 They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive…