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The Politics of Public Wisdom—Proverbs 1:20-33 (Richard Davis)

…and just this week his Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, laughed at those affected by sea-level rise. In New Zealand, the present Key government scoffed at the tens of thousands of…

#PTtoo

…accomplish their own ends. Our second contributor, Jaisy Joseph, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University, discusses sexual violence in the context of Indian Christian immigrant communities….

Economics, Politics, and Theologies of  Relationality

…pertain to individual and God, the rest, seamlessly, to relations among persons. Covenant—reciprocal commitment—thus extends from dyad to larger associations, where gift from God to persongenerates gift from person to…

Christian Action and Its Decontexts – Matthew John Paul Tan

…presumes an agent to be a hermetically sealed individual for whom communal belonging is a consensual disruption. It also does not bode well when ecumenism also presumes a kind of…

Nostalgia and Politics

…and politics. The audience of the text is a people who have returned from exile. Without a doubt, this is a people in search of “home.” Longing for home evokes…

The Peril and Promise of World Community (Jeremy Sabella)

…such as nuclear disarmament, rising sea levels, or humanitarian crises, before having to cope with the catastrophic consequences of inaction? The cynic in me fears that by the time we…

Break Every Yoke

…defunding the police 150 million dollars, Seattle defunding the police by 50%, New York talking about defunding the police by 1 billion dollars. Things that was unheard of and that…

He Saw the Heavens Torn Apart

…the Seer, in his vision of heavenly justice, imagines the overcoming of Roman empire, through the envisioning of a ruptured cosmic order: When he opened the sixth seal, I looked,…

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…

God’s Generous Invitation—Isaiah 55:1–9

…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,…

In Memoriam Ranajit Guha—Anticolonial Political Theologian

…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…

Isabelle Stengers

…as reflected in one of her recent book titles: Another Science is Possible (2019).  In search of another science, Stengers casts a wide net, invoking resources that are exciting for…