…colonial and postcolonial India. From agricultural fields to tea plantations and factories, ancient theologies of value-extraction seamlessly nourished modern capitalism’s quest for profit. Contemporary scholarship presents Agamben as the progenitor…
…in and go along, we are told, join the pack and don’t make anything too difficult—and little by little our God-given humanity slips through our fingers. The season of Lent,…
…Minnesota. This scheme realized Ireland’s dreams of white Catholic land acquisition and use. His plans to erect schools on that land demonstrate the seamless way his Americanist bent—his enthusiasm for…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
…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,…
…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…
…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…