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Books We Love, Part 3

…the first woman in the Arabic and Muslim world to challenge deeply the traditional and patriarchal religious discourse about women. Excellent! Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in…

Learning Shalom

4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. 5The…

When was the Last Time You Got Lost?

…only getting cleverer. With the assistance of technological advancement, we are becoming more self-sufficient by the year. It seems as if we can control almost everything. The season of Lent…

…one is of the elect or the damned, the believer is often searching for confirmation of salvation. Weber argues, then, that “faith had to be proved by its objective results…

Paul’s Propertied Incarnation

…in this. Given all of this, what is the hermeneutical way forward with Galatians 4:1–7, this text for the first Sunday of the Christmas season? The only way forward is…

…Brazil? If the law floats on a sea of ethics, does not civic freedom float on a sea of public participation? Is there not a need for open space in…

The Politics of a Slain Lamb—Revelation 7:9-17 (Amy Allen)

…before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. 10They cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the…

“In My Father’s House” – The Politics of Belonging in Luke 2:41-52

…they returned to Jerusalem to search for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47…

Love and Politics

…Arendt,” Sean Hannan tackles the complicated role that love plays for both titular thinkers, and argues that such a comparison can help us think more fruitfully about “respectability politics.” Drawing…

The Clash of Victimizations – How A Babble of Grievances Impedes the Struggle for Real Justice

…This week’s flap at Princeton University over whether rapper “Big Sean” Anderson should be disinvited from starring in the school’s showcase music festival because of often brutally misogynistic lyrics is…

At the End of Liberal Theory

…commemoration, and of harrowing searches for sacredness—all of which open up questions of other spiritual worlds. Beloved is an exploration of political community constituted otherwise: on the basis of commitments…

What Comes After Trump’s Election? “Religious Anarchism”?  (Jeff Appel)

…That a man so morally bankrupt and politically unfit for public office has risen to the state’s primary seat has seemingly lit a fire under activists. As the colloquialism goes,…