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How Do We Remember Innocent Death?

…and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by…

The Politics of Patience—2 Peter 3:8-15a (Richard Davis)

…or have their homelands threatened by rising sea levels? We Christians are called to be restless waiters. Waiting patiently for the rule of the Kingdom requires the works of anticipation…

The Bat Mitzvah Immersion: Rippling into Adulthood

…a sea change in Euro-American politics elevated the autonomous, rational, individual uniquely capable of linguistic expression, Darwinism “seemed to undermine our [human] exclusive hold on those properties that were essential…

No Longer Bearing the Cross Alone

…for Political Theology During the season of Lent, Christians of different denominations pray the Stations of the Cross, which use both Scripture and Tradition to meditate on the sequence of…

Political Theology and Islamic Studies Symposium: Islamism as Anti-Politics

…Centre. He is the author of four books: Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008), The Impossible…

Intimate Association Beyond Secular Time

…at sea, compelled to survive by herself in the New York City. She is not exactly alive as she needs no food or sleep. With a self-regenerating body, she does…

100 Years of Political Theology: A Caribbean Perspective (by Ramon Luzarraga)

…location within which people do theology, or is it representative of a social and cultural reality that should shape how theology is done. Idris Hamid, In Search of New Perspectives,…

seal of approval on whatever preferred course of action needed pursuing. This often occurred through the same kind of biblical gymnastics that still occur today- a little limbo under the…

The Politics of Breaking Bonds—Luke 8:26-39 (Jan Rippentrop)

…are out on the turbulent sea, where Jesus rebukes the raging waves and asks the disciples, “Where is your faith?” (8:22-25). Luke’s expansion of the circle of those who get…

The Immigration Crisis and the New Völkerwanderung

In recent weeks we have witnessed on the European continent a storm-tossed and surging sea-drift of deracinated humanity unlike the world has ever seen since the months immediately following the…

Religion and Political Thought: Introduction

…co-authored book called Religion and Political Thought. The contributions are: Marion Maddox: ‘The Cloister and the Chamber: In search of Australian political philosophy’. Geoffrey Boucher: ‘Critical Theory of Public Religion…

Prophetic Truth Telling as a Christian Witness

…and domination, and the desperate search of millions for a better life.  All colonial tendencies cannot be left at the door of white Euro-American colonisers. Ask me, a Dalit: we…