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…don’t haunt us back when Dirt Can’t be Seen? Joining us on the show for this third episode of Season 4 Synthetic Religions are Cavan Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion…

Empire, Biopolitics, Secularism

…future trajectories for imperial liberalism in the season of the Long Downtown: a glimpse, that is, and a harrowing one, of the shape of power in the world to come….

The Politics of Triumphalism—Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 (Robert Williamson)

…mouth speaking arrogantly” (7:8). This horn, we are told in 7:24-25 is a king who “shall speak words against the Most High … and attempt to change the sacred seasons…

Poor People’s Campaign? — Douglas F. Ottati

…disagrees, however, there is little reason to dismiss Luke 6:20. [iii] See The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus, New Translation and Commentary by Robert W….

South African Political Unrest And The New Activism Of The Churches – A Tale Of Three Hashtags (Stephen Martin)

…the plight of South Africa at the close of another election season. According to a study published in this past May, 63 percent of South Africa’s children grow up in…

…case, ‘justice’ was dispensed by a squad of US Navy Seals, rather than by a court, violating a sovereign country unannounced and uninvited. ’Justice’, as understood by the American government,…

Brexit: An Exercise in the Violation of Subsidiarity (Anna P. Blackman)

…form of governmental solidarity with communities has failed to materialize. The result has not been political apathy but rather a deep-seated feeling of powerlessness to bring about political change for…

Genius, Genealogy, and Get Out: On Melanosis

search for the arche, or “beginning-point,” of knowledge as a “science of signatures.” This science enables us to discern the “sign within a sign” which “indicates, by means of the…

…alternative in its own right. There have been numerous works on different aspects regarding the caliphate, including Sean Oliver Dee’s “The Caliphate Question”, Mark Wegner’s “Islamic Government”, Soaud Ali’s thesis…

Dark Figures

…absorption in the concrete forms of sensation that the book chronicles over the course of an (artificially compressed) annual cycle of seasons. The advance and retreat of winter at Walden…

Reasoning about (Non)violence in the Hong Kong Protests

…to judge the effectiveness of such tactics. To these perceptive observations, I would merely add that what is needed is what Sean Chabot has called movement phronesis, or what I…

Facebook Not A Happy Medium After Recent Tragedies – 10 Tips For More Productive Conversations (Todd Littleton)

…emerged. Lavish Reynolds posted a video to Facebook. Sitting in the car with her boyfriend, Philando Castile, who was slumped and bleeding in his seat, Reynolds recounted the shooting while…