![Listening to the Call](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/washington-dc-85531_1280-600x450.jpg)
Listening and responding is a blueprint for us all: it’s amazing and wise to discern God’s leading in the context of community.
![The Politics of the Kingdom of God](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/jenil-jain-jw3nZQ_ihxM-unsplash-600x450.jpg)
Indian citizens stepping up to save as many lives as they could embody what the Kingdom of God is about: collective self-care, mutual aid, without a king, while also holding earthly kings accountable for not attending to the needs of their public whether or not there is a crisis.
![Pacific Resistance Unmasking the Old Normal in the Era of Covid 19](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/davisfeaturedimage-600x502.png)
Socially, economically, and politically the time of COVID-19 in the Pacific has been a mixed one. In one way it has been apocalyptic (literally an “uncovering” or “unmasking”); truths about the region’s true political economy can no longer be denied. On the other hand, the COVID-19 era has provided opportunities for governments to “mask” and cover up inconvenient truths of the region.
![Religious Madness and the Logic of Contagion](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IMG_3211-1-600x600.jpg)
By the first decade of the nineteenth century, a new idea had entered the Western world. Psychiatrists, naturalists, politicians, and theologians throughout Europe and North America came to believe that there existed a form of insanity that caused its victims to express false religious opinions, to hold clearly unreasonable religious beliefs, or to dwell too deeply on religious issues.
![Global Health and Just Peace Ethic for Security Strategy in the COVID-19 pandemic](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Care-for-earth-hands.jpg)
During this global pandemic, a theological imagination contributes to helping us draw on a public health approach to our security strategies and shift focus to a just peace framework.