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Other Jerusalem Realities: The “City of Prayer” in Palestinian Nationalist Imaginaries

Loren Lybarger
December 23, 2017January 3, 2018

Jerusalem features in diverging Palestinian discourses of territorial inclusivity versus religiously-based exclusion in the context of Israel’s military, settler, and structural violence.

Palm Sunday procession with Palestinian flags

Evangelicals and Jerusalem

Series: Jerusalem

Melani McAlister
December 21, 2017December 21, 2017

Trump and Pence may think they crafted a heartwarming Jerusalem photo op for US evangelicals, but a closer look reveals division and demographic shifts.

This City that Isn’t One: Fragments on a Fragmented City

Series: Jerusalem

Gil Hochberg
December 20, 2017October 4, 2018

The city that speaks its fragmentation and divide so clearly and loudly cannot be forced into coherence because “cities” do not cohere. Only people do.

Gold-Plated Jerusalem

Series: Jerusalem

Shaul Magid
December 14, 2017July 9, 2020

In the real world, west Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; east Jerusalem is a city in waiting. Jerusalem the holy city is in exile.

The Social Fabric of Jerusalem: Memories in the Wake of Christian Exodus

Stephanie Saldaña
September 21, 2017April 17, 2018

When a plant or animal disappears, we expect the entire ecosystem to be impacted. We often forget that human communities form the same deep relationships.

The Portland Samaritans and Politics Moving Forward

Sam Kigar
June 3, 2017August 7, 2019

Namkai-Meche’s last words—reported by a woman who pulled off her shirt to tourniquet his wound—were, “Tell everyone on this train that I love them.” We love you, too.

Prayer in Action: Supplication and Prayer in a Time of Crisis

Series: Prayer and Action

A. Rashied Omar
May 10, 2017May 26, 2017

Too often we have a distortion of spatiality, a separation of my group and myself from the other. By entertaining strangers we recognize that we are all created in the image of God, in radical love.

Diplomacy as Hypocrisy: The Biya System in Rome and at the Vatican

Ludovic Lado
May 1, 2017May 1, 2017

May the time come when every head of State who goes to meet the Pope and every bishop or priest fears hearing the prophetic message.

Theo-Politics in Flux: The ‘Alt-Right’ on God, Christendom, and the Nation

Mara Willard
February 28, 2017May 26, 2017

Newly empowered, US white nationalists straddle pre- or a-modern theology and Christianity, re-constructed and re-lived on internet forums and tv-shows of late-modernity. Willard tracks the contentions in the US white nationalist right through the lens of Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism”.