
A Key Ritual: Summoning Student Agency
Our attempts to teach towards openness, towards possibility, towards new glimpses of an uncharted future mean that teaching can be demanding, even confounding. One way I learned to embrace this […]
There is embezzlement in Catholic parishes. There is also help on the way. The post Bless Me, Father, For You Have Stolen Money first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Our attempts to teach towards openness, towards possibility, towards new glimpses of an uncharted future mean that teaching can be demanding, even confounding. One way I learned to embrace this […]
One of my favorite “jobs” while serving on the board of the Religion News Association (RNA, a professional association for people who report on religion in the news media, has been overseeing the William A. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award. In...
In a time of intense economic anxiety, both individuals and communities need to reflect on the call in John 12 to claim their responsibility to shun greed, resisting it with a seemingly foolish kind of generosity that parallels Jesus’s becoming...
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Imagine quickly stepping out for a coffee break between classes. It sounds simple enough: latte or mocha? But for international students, especially those with F-1 visas, that seemingly easy choice […]
In this episode of Faith for Normal People, Pete and Jared are joined by Matthew Paul Turner, co-author of the new kids’ book “What Is the Bible?” alongside the late... The post Episode 55: Matthew Paul Turner – The Challenge of Raising Kids with...
What to do and how to do it
This theological dimension, which does not exclude messianism but coexists with it, is not new to Zionism and has been present in it from its inception; articulating it will therefore contribute not only to understanding the history of Zionism,...
There has been quite a bit of speculation about why Donald Trump keeps talking about acquiring Greenland and Canada becoming the 51st state. Most are just baffled. I think I can offer an explanation. There is a consistency among several of his...
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Jewish Law Meets International LawMichael J. Broyde and Yehonatán Elazar-De Mota The following is an introduction to Michael J. Broyde and Yehonatán Elazar-De Mota’s new book, Jewish Law and International Law: Sovereignty and Exogenous Authority in...
It turns out that when weighing warfare’s costs, benefits, and odds of success, its overall record is surprisingly weak. Source
The Village Lawyer by Pieter Brueghel (US-PD). The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal Derecho en Sociedad, a biannual electronic publication that is free and open access. See other essays in...
How Sacred Native Spaces Became Gated and Commercial Places
Taking stock of where we are
The Political Theology Network is hosting our fifth in-person conference, which will be held in Nashville, TN, from October 23-26, 2025. See details below! Source
“What does a human look like? What does a raven look like? What happens when you look at them for long enough to see something like yourself? And then you look even longer? –and there is something about being asked to attend to these things that...
A Prosperity Gospel pastor leads by example with an app built to dominate the religious market The post Tithe Empire first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
A Prosperity Gospel pastor leads by example with an app built to dominate the religious market The post Tithe Empire first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
In Episode 3 of All the Buried Women, co-hosts Beth Allison Barr and Savannah Locke explore the “loopholes” that allowed women to serve in ministry within the Southern Baptist Convention... The post Episode 3 – Loopholes appeared first on The Bible...
Plus, a tribute to my agent Roger Freet and appreciation for our fellow citizens who are federal worker.
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: May 15, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: September 15, 2025 C.S. Lewis has captured the imagination of twentieth-century readers by presenting a resonating, approachable Christianity that...
“Critical to this argument, and worthy of further reflection, is Rafael’s deployment of their own artistic practice to communicate their book’s ideas and to produce a meta-argument about history and method that develops alongside the text, and...
[Editor’s note: While preparing for my frequent course “Deals With the Devil,” which centers on the Faust theme, I discovered that one of my favorite filmmakers, Éric Rohmer, wrote a doctoral dissertation on F.W. Murnau’s silent film Faust. To...
Likening Hamas to Amalek is self-serving. It is as if saying, "we are good people who can act badly, but they are simply evil." The post Amalek, Hamas, and Kant: Thoughts on Evil in the Time of War appeared first on Contending Modernities.
The movement to exonerate convicted witches is a good one The post Fly Free first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
The movement to exonerate convicted witches is a good one The post Fly Free first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
An Original Nations' View-from-the-Shore
English | Español | Français | Russian . English Indigenous Craft Fair We invite everyone to visit the Indigenous Peoples Craft Fair on Wednesday April 23, 2025 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM on the Second Floor of the Church… The post Announcing the...
English | Español | Français | Russian English Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus (GIPC) Invitation Dear Relatives, We invite you to join us on the 19-20 April 2025 from 9:00 AM––3:00 PM on the Second Floor of the Church Center of… The post...
English | Español | Français | Russian Download Flyer EN , ES , FR , RU Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus Invitation Dear Sisters, We invite you to join us on 18 April 2025 from 9:00 AM––3:00 PM on the Fifth… The post Announcing the 2025 Global...
The Political Theology Editorial Collective welcomes new members Fatima Tofighi and Joseph Winters! Source
As I head out to teach my off-campus Jan term class, Backpacking with the Saints, I look at my syllabus again and think about how I assess learning in an […]
What if we just...did something?
The reduction of Kashmiris into simplistic tropes reinforces a colonizer-colonized dynamic, one which has enabled the Indian state to justify its control over the region. The post Indian Occupation in Kashmir: From State Building to Dismantling the...
What happens when the postcolonial state itself becomes an agent of colonization and not merely one of its victims? The post Introduction to Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir appeared first on Contending Modernities.
As a hirsute hetero ’90s SoCal teen, I made my choice The post Confessions of a Once-Bearded Lady first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
As a hirsute hetero ’90s SoCal teen, I made my choice The post Confessions of a Once-Bearded Lady first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Photo via Publishers Weekly. In Islam: A New History, the historian chronicles the religion’s 1,400–year evolution through profiles of figures who showcase its diversity.Why is a new...
Lara Wolf (Sira), Maimie McCoy (Carol), Jeremy Piven (Harold), Adam Garcia (Benny), Isaac Gryn (Paul) in “The Performance.” PHOTO courtesy GVN Releasing. It was not an ideal spot for a...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In Season 5, Episode 7 of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, Dr. Yuria Celidwen discusses the importance of Indigenous wisdom for planetary healing. She introduces herself...
Visiting Assistant Professor Theology and Philosophy The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor College of Christian Studies welcomes applications for a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor position with specialties in Theology and Philosophy. This...
A colonial understanding of resurrection has only associated it with life after death, whereas a decolonial Dalit theology engages with new life experiences by breaking the grounds of death here and now, in life before death. Source
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Jared and co-host Aaron Higashi talk with Roberto de la Noval about the doctrine of universalism, the belief that all people... The post Episode 294: Roberto de La Noval – Universalism as a Doctrine...
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DENNIS SCHULTING | To be is to be intelligible, to be knowable. Being itself is logos, spirit, or a self-knowing...
BENJAMIN BALL | Freedom, generosity, all of these core tenets of liberalism are already embedded in what it means to do democracy well...
There are a number of candidates for “the book that predicted Trump,” from Octavia Butler’s eerily prescient near-future dystopia that purported to “Make America Great Again” to Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind. I have occasionally quipped that...
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