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To Think is to Resist: Notes Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Freedom

…best magnifying glass.’”[9]  Shulman’s seminar forces a practice of thinking elegantly captured in Alice Walker’s dedication to In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, “To my daughter Rebecca /…

Jean Bethke Elshtain: In Memoriam

…runs and make 30 stolen bases in a single season. That year he also was the first Yankee to strike out more than 150 times in a season (157, almost…

Praise as Abolitionist Vision

…lyre and the sound of melody. 6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn     make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord. 7 Let the sea roar, and all that fills…

“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…