…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…
…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…
…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,…
1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; 2 but their…
The national media spotlight is focused on the 2016 presidential campaign, and attention to national politics will only intensify as we move into the primaries and the general election season…
…without God’s aid. He is merely God’s servant (verses 5 and 8; Hebrew: ‘eved, “slave,” perhaps “vassal”). With a searing double entendre, God reminds David of his inauspicious origins: he…
…argued peer-reviewed journal article. In light of this very brief summary of complex arguments here is an example of the ‘blurred’ urban political theology that I am searching for….For the…
…hardship. The most common form was the amulet, deeply influenced by Egyptian styles and practices: scarabs, seals, anthropomorphic figures, objects like the Horus-eye, moon, or Djed-pillar, and animal figurines. The…
…caravan are symptomatic of an “epistemic crisis” in American democracy, in which a significant number of Americans inhabit a “hermetically sealed ecosystem of knowledge, news, and information in which nonsense…
…God. Accept the images That God has provided. They are everywhere… God is Change— Seed to Tree, Tree to forest; Rain to river, River to sea: Grubs to bees, Bees…
…took a back seat to his colleagues who did the actual heavy lifting of ecumenism out of its piecemeal infancy and into the WCC. The rapidity of ecumenical development during…
…the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Job…