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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…

Unexpected Guides in a World Undone

…anoint the dead body of Jesus (Mark 16:1).  These small acts of attentive care seem unproductive. They do not prevent the death of Jesus, nor do they bring him back…

Don’t Just Stand There!—Acts 1:1-11

…The same (or similar) men appeared and asked the women who come to Jesus’ tomb, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5). Although Luke does…

PTNCON25: 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: April 1, 2025) and proposals for individual papers to be included within the…