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The Student Loan Crisis and the Strained Promises of the “Knowledge Society”

…as tickets to more exclusive box seats in the huge municipal stadium of competitive professional advancement. It is, therefore, “demand-side” economics, for which guaranteed student loans is an easily understandable…

Doxa

…Churches and places of worship discovered themselves in the non-essential category, a designation that many found intolerable. Prominent pastors such as John MacArthur cried foul; worship leader and provocateur Sean…

The Bible and Politics

Is there a conversation around political theology (as concept, field, method, or however you understand it) from the past twenty years that continues to fascinate you? The narrow formulation of…

season. It has, for example, become a commonplace in economic discussions to declaim on the alleged horrors of the national debt that we are supposedly dumping on our “children.” It…

Conquest Narratives in Islam and Christianity (Alastair Roberts)

…spies were sent to search out the land of Canaan in Numbers 13. As in the case of the spies, theirs is a task preparatory for judgment: the cities that…

Political Theology Needs Its Own “Pivot To Asia” (Kwok Pui-Lan)

…the Asian countries over the control of islands and resource-rich waters in the South China Sea. But surprisingly we find political theologians still focus largely on the Atlantic as if…

…begin “recovering” from the season of light. Still, the epiphany waits for our resolution and us. God stirs up our faith again, so that we might truly work toward the…

The Parable of the Sower in Light of the Charleston Tragedy (Douglas Ottati)

…2015), online. [3] The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus, Translation and Commentary by Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, et. al. (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), p. 193….

On the Insurrectionary Turn In Political Theology (Roger Green)

…into a subject through his search [ēuriskein] for the discovery of what has already been revealed. This seeking, the changing circumstances of the tyrant in which we already see Fortuna…

The Politics of Representation—Matthew 25: 1-13 (Raj Bharat Patta)

…stood up from the audience to walk up to the stage to meet the women. No one noticed during the play that the bridegroom was seated among us, for we…

Catholic Social Teaching: Pro-Establishment?

…us. The political analyst Sean Trende has noted how this bias has impacted this year’s presidential campaign. He shows how this phenomenon helps explain our political and cultural elites’ surprise…

…row seat to Saul’s decline. He saw how the hero quickly lost his standing. And so he did not rejoice in that, at least. I invite you to listen for…