Marginalia Review of BooksFor Plato and Aristotle, it was not only about coming together in the Academy or the Lyceum to discuss things, but it was also about creating a social space for this practice, about changing people’s perception of philosophy. . .
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Political TheologyBenjamin Davis responds to Zahi Zalloua’s review of his new book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025). Source
Marginalia Review of BooksRACHEL HADAS | What about love as a balm for existential dread?
Religion LinkIn this guide, we provide background, tips and suggestions, newswriting for context and experts and sources for you to turn to as you ramp up your coverage of religion and the 2026 midterms.
The ConversationDaoism approaches the world not from the perspective that the world is broken or needs to be saved, but rather that it is naturally balanced.
The ConversationThe Russian Orthodox Church is creating another pro-family day, part of a broader ‘traditional values’ campaign run by the government.
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Political TheologyBefore the hope emerges, however, toxic dynamics and problematic patterns in inherited histories need to be excavated, named, and redressed. Source
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Ken ChitwoodThe Statue of Union, a 90-foot-tall statue of the Hindu deity Hanuman, is the third largest statue in the U.S. (Photo: Ken Chitwood) Synott Road does not immediately feel like...
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Du Mez CONNECTIONSPatriotism and America's 250th
Political TheologyIn May 2026, Matt Bernico and Dean Dettloff, co-hosts of The Magnificast, published Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology, an insightful book in which they denounce the idol of capitalist growth and advocate for degrowth...
Ken ChitwoodThis month, the United States marks its 250th anniversary.And as we've already seen, there's a temptation to tell some pretty tidy stories about national origins and shared ideals at such a time as a Semiquincentennial.Religion usually pops in that...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineAdd excerpt here. The post There Is No Other Body, There Is No Other World appeared first on April Online.
The ConversationAn ethicist who studies disagreement and civility assumed she could handle a neighborly dispute – until the neighbor refused to even interact with her.
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraNational birthday parties feature fireworks and commemorative stamps. Why not humanities lectures, too? The post For America’s 250th, Go Back to School first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsNational birthday parties feature fireworks and commemorative stamps. Why not humanities lectures, too? The post For America’s 250th, Go Back to School first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraIan Buruma’s new book looks at Berliners’ compromised struggles for normalcy, and survival, during World War II The post Nichts ist klar first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsIan Buruma’s new book looks at Berliners’ compromised struggles for normalcy, and survival, during World War II The post Nichts ist klar first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
The Immanent FrameThe six essays that comprise this forum probe the utility, value, and analytic pay-off of the concept of innovation as […] The post For and against “religious innovation” appeared first on The Immanent Frame.
The ConversationThe Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission argues that religious freedom is under attack and blames the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state.
ReligionProfI would have been intrigued by Disclosure Day simply because it was science fiction, directed by Steven Spielberg, with a score by John Williams. Heck, any one of those things alone would have guaranteed that I would see it eventually. Combine all...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraParents, officials, and teens across Australia have a variety of hopes and qualms The post Australia Banned Social Media For Kids. How’s It Going? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsParents, officials, and teens across Australia have a variety of hopes and qualms The post Australia Banned Social Media For Kids. How’s It Going? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
ReligionProfMourning John and Dancing Jesus? This past Sunday, my Sunday school class was up to Luke 7:31-35: “To what, then, will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraLuigi Mangione was not the first to write a message on ammunition The post Shoot Me a Text first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsLuigi Mangione was not the first to write a message on ammunition The post Shoot Me a Text first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
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Contending ModernitiesThe old oppositions between "secular" and "religious" Jewish life are breaking apart, at least on the left, and perhaps, were never really what we imagined them to be to begin with. The post Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish...
Canopy ForumThe Religious Left: What It Does and How It Can Do BetterRobert Wuthnow Material excerpted from The Religious Left: What It Does and How It Can Do Better by Robert Wuthnow © 2026 by New York University Press. Excerpted with permission from the...
Du Mez CONNECTIONSMythbusting Christian America
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraA Fourth of July family saga, in stamps The post The Cowpens Coincidence first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsA Fourth of July family saga, in stamps The post The Cowpens Coincidence first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Political TheologyZahi Zalloua responds to Benjamin Davis's review of his new book, To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian (2026) Source
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Political Theology“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ “For John came neither eating nor...
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ReligionProfI confess to giving this post a clickbait sort of title in calling it “Generative AI is nothing new.” The statement is true in important ways, however, even if it requires clarification. Let me explain. In a recent conversation I had with some...
Canopy ForumSecular-Christian Social Justice: Climate, Race, and Gender in the 21st CenturyNoa Ben-Asher Material excerpted from Secular-Christian Social Justice: Climate, Race, and Gender in the 21st Century by Noa Ben-Asher © 2026 by New York University...
ReligionProfIntroduction This summer’s Enoch Seminar meeting on the topic of Christology within Judaism is sure to be remembered as a key moment in this area of study. We gathered in Rome at the Waldensian School of Theology. While I have been involved in a...
The Domination ChroniclesEpisode 23: Bishops, Papal Bulls, and the Problem of Domination
An und für sichI’ve not read everything that sci-fi/fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold has written, but from what I have read, she sure loves to set a fantasy world in a key site of the emergence of the modern racial structures whilst trying to imagine what it...
Du Mez CONNECTIONSRecasting faithfulness in an age of division
Canopy ForumTwentieth-Century Redlining Map from the National Archives. In the United States, the narrative of belonging has long been told through access to housing and home. Although the over-regulation of physical residences, presence of racial...
Sowing the SeedOne of the things I love about the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama is our culture of student research. I have the pleasure of advising Sierra Ruden in our Religion in Culture MA program. Sierra has been using discourse...
Political TheologyWith Pope Leo's recent declaration of just war being "outdated," Eli McCarthy pens a letter from just war theory, asking to be let go. Source
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Contending ModernitiesWhat does the history of American Jewish anti-Zionism look like if one puts left-wing social movements at the center of that story? The post Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 1) appeared first on Contending...