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Susan Taubes, <em>Divorcing</em> (1969)

…as mediums through which the dead speak. Can we, she asks, hold this to be true, while still honoring the dead as dead?  Having just completed a book on devotion…

The Politics of the Impossible: Ezekiel 37:1-14 (Alastair Roberts)

…role of Ezekiel in this vision should be attended to. YHWH doesn’t restore the dead bones of Israel to life immediately, but through the inspired word of his prophet and…

The Politics of Identifying Jesus and John the Baptist—Matthew 11:2-11 (Richard Davis)

…are no longer deaf, and dead are no longer dead. In this list being poor is the only non-physical affliction. All the others, such as being deaf or lame are…

Farewell to the Flesh

dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ…

Good Friday and the Politics of Discipleship—John 19:31-42 (Brad Littlejohn)

…the other who had been crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 But…

Breaking Barriers from Our Background

…way. If they were socialized to adopt deadly responses, how do things end more positively in each encounter? And what can we learn from this? Starting with the Joseph story,…

The Politics of Christ, the Beginning—Colossians 1:15-28 (Alastair Roberts)

…hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place…

Marx on Genesis 3

…human perspiration mixed with the discharge of abscesses, cobwebs, dead black-beetles, and putrid German yeast, without counting alum, sand, and other agreeable mineral ingredients’[1]. The comment is amusing enough, saturated…

<strong>Imagining God</strong>

…Only the relentless search to reimagine the inescapability of material existence: “When I’m truly dead, my friends, I won’t see you standing around me. I will find a way out,…

For a New Theologico-Political Bestiary (or, What Our Unseen Monsters Have to Do With Our Momentary Gods)

…are in search of transformative special effects, striking revelations of unexpected, contingent overlapping of refrains, recursivities, systems. We are in search of what they might yield, what they might open…

The Politics of True Faith—Hebrews 11:29–12:2

29 By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned. 30By faith the…

God’s Right-Side Up Kingdom

…glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high, 6 who looks far down on the heavens and the earth? 7 He…