Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Marc Ellis encountered us, and in the sacredness of meeting, we were forever changed.
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The difference between the Jewishness of Sanders’s candidacy and Shapiro’s has less to do with who is more Jewish; it has a great deal to do with the way the idea of Jewishness has been constructed in the last few decades.
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There is genuine concern among many Christians in the Middle East that “Freedom of Religious Belief” will be weaponized as a platform for populism, religious nationalism, and colonial interventions.
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Tutu’s legacy is precisely in the hope that human beings will celebrate the image of God whose unity is known through diverse persons.
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The remarkable Christian individuals in the book are given significant attention because of their theological vitality and social agency.
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Christian identity is not a static essence, spiritual or otherwise. Rather, it is an invitation to a journey with a definite direction and telos.
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Identities are deeply imbricated and our “journeys” to the discovery and rediscovery of them take effort and sacrifice, but are the only way to renewal.
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Katongole’s reflections on friendship challenge us to move beyond mere intellectual considerations of identity and call for concrete action to build relationships across the boundaries that typically divide us.
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There are broad zones of ambiguity and aporia in every culture. And it is in those zones that one can find promise and potential.
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The crucial point is that Zionism’s colonization of the Jew himself, a notion at the core of early Zionist discourse, is now enabled by its focus on the distinction between “Jews” and “Arabs,” a binary which makes (Ashkenazi) Jews seem modern and secular.
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