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Global Currents

Tracking flows of people, news and ideas as they interact with secular and religious dynamics.

Featured in Global Currents

  • Our Jerusalem of Unspoken Stories

    For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly....


  • Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

    Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?...


  • Producing Motherhood? Uterus Transplantation for Infertility

    Uterus transplant makes visible the ways in which social expectations and ideas about the normative body interact with the ethical ends of medicine....


  • Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland

    Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress....


  • From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

    The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps ev...


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Global Currents Articles

Costly Solidarity

Contending Modernities
May 19, 2025May 22, 2025

Rev. Munther Isaac called for an interfaith coalition for justice to combat theologies of supremacy and exclusion that make genocide possible.

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Amalek, Hamas, and Kant: Thoughts on Evil in the Time of War

Shaul Magid
March 26, 2025

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.”

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On Political Boundaries and Christian Love

MT Dávila
March 18, 2025

The measure of Christian love is not a set of boundaries around specific kinds of people, but, rather, the gift of God’s crossing all boundaries through the Incarnation.

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Rejecting Project Esther: Understanding Christian and White Nationalism as Racism and Antisemitism

Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council
March 13, 2025May 6, 2025

The Heritage Foundation provoked widespread outrage with the publication of their Project 2025, a policy agenda that targets immigrants and…

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The Rising Call to Codify Gender Apartheid: Epistemic Resistance and International Accountability

Tahmina Sobat
November 21, 2024April 3, 2025

Transnational solidarities should focus on challenging patriarchal structures and the imperialist systems that sustain them.

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Theological Reflections on Gaza from the Global South

Series: Theology after Gaza
Kwok Pui Lan
October 21, 2024

In our troubled times, Palestinian Christian women invite us to walk in love and continue to advocate for freedom, justice, and liberation for all.

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After Gaza, Standing Again at Sinai

Series: Theology after Gaza
Atalia Omer
October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

Returning to Sinai after Gaza amounts to a restorative justice praxis.

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Christian Zionism as Geopolitics and Public Theology: A Latin American Perspective

Series: Theology after Gaza
Nicolás Panotto
September 26, 2024September 30, 2024

The utopia Christian Zionism claims is nothing more than a teleological, fatalistic, and metaphysical vision of history, which blocks any possibility of movement, of liberation, of genuine redemption.  

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A Letter to the President of Tel Aviv University

Khaled Furani
September 19, 2024September 30, 2024

Ultimately, when you fear violence that is against “the law” yet normalize the violence of “the law,” my safety is not the only casualty. Yours is too.

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Marc H. Ellis: A Life of Encounter

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis
Jessica Wong
September 13, 2024

Marc Ellis encountered us, and in the sacredness of meeting, we were forever changed.

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