…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,…
…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…
…lived most of my adult life in cities, and so had Jim. We met in Honolulu, then moved to Seattle, where we had a small backyard garden. We had hoped…
…famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea,…
…the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your ancestors with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 7When they cried out to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the…
This year, the editorial team of the Politics of Scripture is excited to host a 6-week Lenten series on climate change and ecojustice. During the liturgical season of Lent, beginning…
…appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 11…
…who have been saved from Egypt. In the New Testament, Paul teaches the same way. He says that Christians are ‘dead to sin.’ Because they are ‘dead to sin,’ they…
…is merely gestating in a “moratorium,” cryogenic environments that extend brain activity in dead bodies into a “half-life,” in the hope that the “souls” of the deceased will find new…
…religious materials), the search and seizure of vehicles, and the violation of fourth amendment rights of Mexican and Mexican-American drivers often rely on faith-based determinations between orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Officers…
…money epiphenomenal is a way into the orbit of political theology. Richard Seaford and Devin Singh draw attention to the relationship between monetization and the development of fundamental theological and…
…air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! The psalmist…