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Settler Colonialism

…as sea steading, extraterrestrial colonization, and the board game “Settlers of Catan” (Veracini, 2015, pp.70–88; 2021, pp.238–247). History implicates Christianity in the push and pull factors which helped create European…

The Politics of Descriptions—Matthew 3:1-12 (Amy Allen)

…But either way, their fate is the same: they will be judged in righteousness by the Lord, Immanuel, God With Us. And that’s the real hope of the Advent season….

season of Lent: “thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts”. So what is it then that we ask God to do in response to this awareness? “Shut not thy…

…produced by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, in which she announced her decision not to run for her congressional seat in the next election cycle. Congresswoman Bachmann has, over the seven…

…alternative in its own right. There have been numerous works on different aspects regarding the caliphate, including Sean Oliver Dee’s “The Caliphate Question”, Mark Wegner’s “Islamic Government”, Soaud Ali’s thesis…

Political Theology Issue 17.3 – Postcolonialism, Simone Weil, Alasdair MacIntyre, Neoliberalism and Debt

…the disputes among the Asian countries over the control of islands and resource-rich waters in the South China Sea. But surprisingly we find political theologians still focus largely on the…

Nostalgia and Politics

…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 different reactions. In this case,…

Hope, and Hard Boards

…beyond the heavens, and to the very clouds. It is more steadfast and dependable than the very mountains, and deeper than the sea itself. It is shelter for all and…

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…