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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…

The Politics of the Inner Life in Moore, Cajka, and Woodbine’s New Books

…subjects experienced with each other, and that she experiences with them (244). These holy dead become our companions, just as they themselves so often reached back into time to form…

The End is Nigh!

…mainstream. In the smash hit The Walking Dead, the survivors of a zombie apocalypse openly wonder about the religious meaning of their plight. In the season 2 finale, Herschel muses:…

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,…

Temporality, Asphyxiation, Debilitation

…I was reading The Right to Maim, I was reading about the 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a refrigerated truck container in Britain. A New York Times article about…

A Full-Bodied Gospel—John 3:14-21

…him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells…

Frank Wilderson III

…In one of their conversations, Sameer described the humiliation of being “stopped and searched at Israeli checkpoints.” But then Sameer says something curious: “the shame and humiliation [of being searched…

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…