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The Dialogical Nature of Religious Freedom in Dignitatis Humanae

search for truth is dialogical in nature, or, in other words, that the “environment in which men can without hindrance be invited to the Christian faith” must take the form…

Making America Great and the “Priority of the Spiritual” (Barrett Turner)

…later obtained the sixteenth seat in L’Academie française, the same seat occupied by Cardinal Dupanloup in the nineteenth century. He supported the Vichy regime and spent five years in prison…

Preferential Option for the Poor Once More

…the God who delivers Israel out of Egypt and leads them through the Red Sea, the One who liberates the Babylonian captives, to deliver the Mizo people. The song continues:…

…the Protestant Reformation and the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Now that the election season is over in America, it might be a good time to take a step back and…

Foodie Ethics and Levitical Priests

…the organic process of food production leads to corruption. The human corruption is based in a deep-seated guilt complex. What happens is that white American children are raised in blind…

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…

Isaiah 62:1-5:  The Politics of Marrying God

…the most common prophetic motifs in the Scripture is that of Israel’s infidelity towards Yahweh. For example, the entire book of Hosea makes use of the image of the prostitute,…

Violent Fantasies and the Language of the Unheard

…psalm easier to read after my service (for a brief season) as a hospital chaplaincy intern. People say all sorts of things from the midst of crisis—often things that probably…

…doubt: “Keep Christ in Christmas” “Jesus Is the Reason for the Season” and of course, the ever-popular War on Christmas, which, if we are to believe conservative talk show hosts,…

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…

Paul’s Propertied Incarnation

…text for the first Sunday of the Christmas season? The only way forward is through it. For me, this means an intentional engagement with its violent negative framing of “no…