…can substantiate this conception of God’s nature or human nature. Our Scripture does not begin with ‘In the beginning God created victim and victimizer and saw that it was good;’…
…Scriptures, attending to prayer and observing the sacraments. Such an order would have to happen at the margins of Methodist institutions; it is the only place we might find for…
…early book form of Jewish and Christian scriptures as explicated in Grafton and Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book, 234-35. [10] Cromwell, “Speech V,” 536. Cf. Rouse and…
…prayer leader uses scripture to pray for the local community, or government. Prophetic singers, working antiphonally or in call and response, sing spontaneous phrases that pick up on the prayer,…
…in which children are not only invoked as innocents to be saved, but as saviors themselves, redeeming the deficient institutions and politics of the present by promising to create a…
…for Christians to see themselves waving palms, but to also forget they choose Barabbas. If these scriptures do provide a warning for us, I want to delve deeper into how…
…experience” (179). Judith Butler also finds it necessary to “undercut the temporal framework that uncritically supports state power, its legitimating effect, and its coercive instrumentalities” (37) in “Sexual Politics, Torture,…
…for Political Theology During the season of Lent, Christians of different denominations pray the Stations of the Cross, which use both Scripture and Tradition to meditate on the sequence of…
…to the new politics,” a politics to which we stubbornly cling (Guenther, 6). If humanity’s exceptionality could not be defined by language, we, humans, doggedly determined another metric by which…
…the force of gravity, this line will be pulled tight, establishing a vertical or plumb point of reference for construction. In the world of the Hebrew scriptures, plumb lines were…
…most acutely affected by the policies of the current Administration. Whether it is in response to the call of our Scriptures, of formally recognized Christian leaders, of the examples of Christians…
…driven by anti-colonial politics, refusal of unethical research practices, and the demand for accountability from researchers. Snippet #2: Amidst threats from Hindu nationalists given my scholarly and other political work,…