What Is Theological about Public Theology?
The vocation of the public theologian is to testify to their faith and in doing so to further the good news of Jesus in all our publics. At the same time, the aim of this public theological discourse...
View ArticleGood Publicity? Public Theology in an Age of Public Shame
It seems that only a certain kind of public theologian, touting a certain kind of theology, is recognizable to the religiously unaffiliated as being, well, religious. Source
View ArticleToward Agonistic Practice as Public Theology
Agonistic practices of lively contestation constitute a practical way to love enemies and thereby to do public theology. Source
View ArticleCriminal Communion
The social construction of the criminal other has long served as a justification for subjugation. Pope Francis has stated that the people of God can smell holiness, and perhaps there is also a greater...
View Article#NoBootsNoBedsNoWall: Cuentos on how Industrial Complexes Feed off the Social...
…and they all crossed freely …and they were heard without initial judgement Source
View ArticleFutures for Public Theology
Part of our duty is to generate the publics that we want to inhabit, not simply to assent to the publics that are foisted upon us. Source
View ArticleFrom Faithful Patriot to Faithful Presence
The Trump administration’s most recent actions at the border signal the end of all pretense by the president—and many in his base—that Christian ethical principles should meaningfully inform U.S....
View ArticleMovement and Contra-movement: A Pneumatological Response to Migration
Life in God is defined by a joyous freedom of movement, a loving and adventurous invitation to the dance of the Spirit. The book of Acts is witness to those who accepted this invitation like Peter,...
View ArticleFriendships of Listening in Creating Just Societies
Fostering cross-cultural and cross-racial friendships of listening are essential to creating virtuous and just societies, especially in a fractured political climate that fails to serve the human good....
View ArticleThe Powers of Powerlessness
Our modest proposal is for those of us who work in political theology to listen to the Americas and to do so, insofar as possible, ethnographically. Source
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