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“With Sighs Too Deep for Words”: On Praying With the Victims in Haiti
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for...
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“Everyone in This Room is Now Dumber for Having Listened to [Him]” : Setting...
Glenn Beck and his narratives are often best left ignored—his broadcasts are incendiary, and the helpful things he says are derivative and rare. However, his recent comments on liberation theology...
View ArticleThe Singularity of Jesus and the Mission of the Church: An Interview with...
In this interview, Nathan R. Kerr reflects on some of the conversations that have emerged in the last two years since the release of his book Christ, History, and Apocalyptic: The Politics of...
View ArticleBearing the Silence: On James Baldwin and Prayer
It is not unusual to encounter silence in prayer or in writings about prayer; it is, in fact, quite normal, whether it be a romanticized vision of the silent heart basking in the brilliant glory of God...
View ArticleThe Actuality of Liberation’s Problem
Liberation Exists Only in Its Enactment There is a tendency, when approaching the relation between Christianity and Marxism, to try to identify some element that would be common to both. This element...
View ArticlePower, Economics, and Christian Faith from Below: An Interview with Joerg Rieger
Joerg Rieger is an internationally recognized activist and scholar who has engaged in questions of liberation, theology, and economics for over twenty years. His visionary work uses tools from cultural...
View ArticleReenchanting the Body
I was fourteen or fifteen. She was about the same age, a friend from a local Christian youth organization. After long and oblique flirtation, I finally got up the gumption to confess my attraction to...
View ArticleSpirit, Tradition, and the Pneumatology of Liberation
The Holy Spirit and the Logic of Tradition According to the French Dominican theologian Yves Congar (1904-1995), the term “Tradition” [1] (from the Latin, tradere) was originally used in Roman legal...
View ArticleOccupied Identity: The Aesthetics of Palestinian Suicide Bombing
The Israeli occupation of Palestine is ugly. To speak of the occupation as “ugly” may sound strange, jarring, or at least atypical. But I suggest that, at its core, occupation is an aesthetic...
View ArticleOur Cries for Equity
As the parent of a two- and five-year-old, I have learned to play the role of late-night interpreter, to differentiate the wet-bed whimpers, the nightmare shrieks, and the hungry screams. I’m also...
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