…particulars of human living (that is, politics), seriously. The move to spiritualize (i.e. generalize) the gestures of Martha and Mary as either virtues or vices is appealing, yet readily becomes…
The Psalms have much to say about politics. In Psalm 2 the kings of the earth take their stand against the LORD’s anointed ruler and are brought into full submission….
…Where the Romans brought death and took plunder, the apostles bring life and restore relationship. Peace is and always has been a catchword in politics. Everyone wants peace. No one…
…verses offer us a vision of the politics of a restored nation on the other side of judgment. The nation has been raised up again, through the leadership of the…
…and celebrated with hope. For us, today, in 2017, what do these politics mean? How might we live together and grow together across our differences, with God’s Holy Spirit as…
…the Israelis, while the Palestinians consume on average considerably less than what the World Health Organization says is the minimum daily allowance for health and hygiene. Thus the politics of…
…section on religion and politics blogs and then feel like I need to take a shower. In the comments, the scribes and the Pharisees collide with the Sadducees and the…
…the Lamb of God, an identification continued in the book of Revelation. Looking to the Lamb, rather than to the great and powerful Beasts, should inform our politics as Christians….
…the post-colonial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural churches in Namibia in the early 2000’s, I heard this message proclaimed and celebrated with hope. For us, today, in 2017, what do these politics mean?…
…interpreters has given new life to natality. Notably, rather than a phenomenologically grounded politics emerging from experiences of female embodiment, Rosalyn Diprose and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek’s Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics…
…If ancient hearers sympathize at all, they unwittingly judge themselves. In a recent book called The Gardens of Democracy, Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer likewise employ vegetation metaphors for politics…
…the Torah rest—all that God asks of God’s people, God asks as a response to and expression of love. So what, then, are the politics at play? In our twenty-first…