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Inglorious Homecoming

…Prize. An immigrant from the Philippines to New Jersey, she made the choice to return to the Philippines as a seasoned journalist and faced the tyranny of the authoritarian regime…

Communities of Care and Concern

…the waters, hearkening back to their ancestors’ passage across the Sea of Reeds. The Holy One walks with them through the fires, acknowledging their recent experience of the Temple’s destruction…

Jesus the Epicurean: or Why the Personal really is Political (Benjamin Wood)

…famous by Plato’s dialogue) were just such occasions, which confirmed one’s membership of an aristocratic male culture. Yet, in both settings there were patterns of deep-seated inclusivity, which surfaced periodically…

Speaking Power to Truth, or, The Banality of Torture (Paul W. Kahn)

…allies have been engaged in often heated debate and soul-searching over the practice of torture. Following important discussions on the issue at this year’s Society of Christian Ethics annual meeting,…

Court Decisions Over Psychedelic Tea For Native Americans Should Sensitize Us To The Question of What Is Meant By “Religion” (Roger Green)

…on Psychotropic Substances Act of 1971 to “Hoasca” (ayahuasca) use by the New Mexican group. The suit was filed with the help of Jeffrey Bronfman, heir to the Seagrum corporation,…

Preview of “Redeeming Judgment” — Dale Patrick

…for living faithful lives in the Promised Land. Let’s fast forward to the prophets of the 8th century, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah and Micah. Each reports a call to prophecy at…

…says that, while many of us go searching through the scripture looking for rules which will tell us what to do, what we find instead, particularly in Luke-Acts, is what…

Hannah Arendt

…Christian notion of caritas seeks to reconcile the human search after the divine through the love of fellow human beings. The command to love one’s neighbor is a charged dictum:…

…4 of season 4’s Assembly Podcast, “The Unnatural Costs of Healthcare” as we debate and explore how the healthcare system’s historical denigration of spirituality and religion incurs an unnatural cost…

Christian Nationalism’s Superstition Problem

…Augustus, [himself] Augustus” (TI[BERIVS] CAESAR DIVI AUG[VSTI] F[ILIUS] AUGVSTVS). On the reverse side of the coin was a seated woman who personified Pax (Rome’s “peace” through coercion and domination). Surrounding…

The Politics of Advent—Romans 13:11-14 (Fritz Wendt)

…in the Advent season I loved getting up. It wasn’t because I was an especially good boy (my mother would laugh!), or that I loved my oatmeal (my siblings would…

Police, Property, and the Problem of Self-Preservation

…such that the bullets themselves are like little selves, in search of a body that can serve as the unifying pole of their propriety. If there is no self to…