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“Religious Freedom” and the ACA: Campaigning on the Sovereign Exception

…is, of course, no stranger to politics in the United States, a fact that becomes all too clear in election season, as incumbents and their challengers hone their rhetoric to…

Setting The Prisoners Free

Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in…

Enrique Dussel

…The itinerant experience of the young Argentine traveler crisscrossing Europe and Middle East here grounds the search for the Western roots of Latin America. Symbolically tracing back the origins of…

Everything, Everywhere, All in Lent

…chosen a singular path, foreclosing other potentially more fruitful paths? What or who can validate my own existence?  The liturgical wilderness, self-reflective, and sanctity of the season of Lent provide…

Is God’s Kingship a Progressive Idea?

…the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith for ever; 7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the…

The Zeal of a Convert to Political Theology

…it is not the search for repose in an afterlife. On this account, Baldwin is a practitioner of negative theology, as Vincent Lloyd suggests. However, that does not exhaust his…

Resisting Christofascism Today

…on authority and in search of something to hold on to, religion is instrumentalized in order to engender hate, to lead them into battle, into crusades.” In response to the…

The Power You Have

…illustrates what’s at stake when we fail to recognize our power. Ariel is born the daughter of the sea king. She is a princess destined for greatness, with all the…

The Politics of Man’s Exaltation—Psalm 8 (Alastair Roberts)

…oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9O Lord, our…

Preparing the Field for Secularity in Medieval Japan

…technological modernisation in Japan since the late 19th century has driven both Japanese and Western sociologists and historians in the 20th century to search for functional equivalents to the “Protestant…

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Revolutionary Christianity Arrives in China

…1988). Reilly, Thomas, The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004).   [1] One may argue that the Taiping Revolution followed in…

The Politics of God’s Children—Revelation 7:9-17; 1 John 3:1-3 (Amy Allen)

…is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell…