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Who Are We, the Palestinians?

…a romantic task. The living wounds are ugly and become uglier with time, from generation to generation, filled with puss and emanating the stench of death. The dead need to…

PTNCON23: Call for Seminar Streams

…ongoing effort to experiment with conference structure and format, we will accept proposals in two stages: proposals for seminar streams (deadline: March 1, 2023) and proposals for individual papers to…

Tradinistas: A New Catholic Socialism?, Part 2

…capital – or, in Marxian terms, ‘living’ labor and ‘dead’ labor,” that is, to the workers currently engaged in production and those who previously produced the machines now being used by…

It First Must Burn: Expanding the Spiritual Lens of Change in Parable of Sower’s Earthseed

…the Dead (125); both books are funerary texts that guide the bereaved, the dying, and the dead through practices of death and rebirth. Additionally, in an anonymous interview included in…

The Powers of Powerlessness

…in motion—what Jennifer Scheper Hughes calls an ecclesia ex mortuis, a Church out of the dead. In fulfilling its destiny as a universal religion through the evangelization of the Crown’s…

Memory and the Risen Christ—Luke 24:1–12

…them. 5The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is…

The Politics of the Welcoming Father—Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 (Amy Allen)

…was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.25 “Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and…

Blackness

…such, blackness is relegated to the (Fanonian) zone of non-being, the (Pattersonian) province of the socially dead. As such, afropessimists claim that the only way for blackness—and therefore black people—to…

Trans Talmud Reminds Us Things Aren’t Forever Doomed to Suck

…the latest spate of political backlash against trans folk continues its deadly escalation, and when the field of rabbinics, along with other adjacent areas in Jewish studies, is reevaluating its…

The Shoes of Peace: Let us Find Our Way Through

…long before this latest classroom battle and will exist long after I am dead and gone. Put on the armour of God…Do unto others…how do we choose whether scripture commands…

…into an identity of “just already dead”. Here, again, nature isn’t surprising and is evaluated by its end. If the current majority consensus in cosmology is correct and the universe…

Announcement – Negotiating Agreement in Congress Research Grants

…understanding and approaches with the potential to influence legislative behavior. The Negotiating Agreement in Congress Research Grants are generously funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The application deadline…