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sea change that has taken place nationally on this issue, literally within months. My own Presbyterian Church USA, which defeated an overture that would have allowed gay and lesbian ordination…

Donald Trump, Demagogue

…and irresolute. The Latin American populists had their widest appeal in a time of dislocation, when millions of Latin Americans were leaving the countryside in search of greater opportunities in…

RTD 2: Mira Morgenstern on Michael Walzer’s “In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible”

…characterizes the most elevated manifestation of human existence. This leads to one of the questions that seem to haunt Walzer’s book: is Walzer searching the Hebrew bible for something that…

“Dust Bowl” Politics and Our Ongoing Economic Crises – Envisioning a New Global Oikoumene

…we cast aside the politics of resentment, self-justification, and blame and begin an honest search for identifying the visible spiritual sutures whereby our fragmented oikos can be put back together….

Who’s Laughing Now? Pentecostal Disrespectability Politics

…let forever go to sea!) Crucially, the heckling did not end there. Roughly one hundred years later, evangelicals targeted a burgeoning professional class with uncannily similar jesting. Sociologist Magali Sarfatti…

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…

The Politics of Representational Rule—1 Corinthians 12:1-11 (Alastair Roberts)

…Our representation of our societies and rulers to God repeatedly subjects and summons both to the searching yet non-partisan standard of God’s will for our good in society together, while…

The Politics of Kids and Dogs—Mark 7:24-37 (Amy Allen)

…bed, and the demon gone. 31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the…

…not fantasy. The massive protests in Seattle (1999), Prague (2000), Quebec (April 2001), and Genoa (July 2001), were only the most visible elements of this resistance movement. As organizers with…

On Milinda Banerjee’s <em>The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India</em>

…peasant mobilizations offer not so much an alternative or “lost” genealogy of sovereignty, rather, they represent an interruption of the seamless narrative of transition to political modernity. When histories of…

…going out into the wilderness is suspect. Those who feed themselves rather than eat the food extracted from colonies through conquest are dangerous. The wilderness is the seat of chaos,…

…heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ (Eph. 1:10)” and the similar promise that “He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!…