Canaan at the margins
When I read the book of Joshua, it is easy for me to miss God's call for genocide.
When I read the book of Joshua, it is easy for me to miss God's call for genocide.
In poor communities like the one where I live and work, evictions are not the exception. They’re the norm.
I love Genesis for some of the same reasons the church fathers were wary of it.
Reading Exodus together with Isabel Wilkerson reminds me that the biblical story is not told from my point of view.
To meet others as God meets us—prickly and imprecise and difficult though we may sometimes be—is a kind of grace.
Balancing political realism with an openness to grace is not easy. But Arendt and Kiess propose just such a balance, so that “politics becomes the art of being born.”
Human sexuality is fraught, particularly when mixed with the complexities of culture, religion, patriarchy, and adolescence.
From his youth Lax experienced a love of God that would not abate, calling him toward both solitude and engagement with others.
Nussbaum, a psychiatrist who labels himself a “bad Catholic,” delves with religious fervor into the mystery of his calling to serve people who suffer. Guided by mentors like Basil of Caesarea, Hildegard of Bingen, and Stanley Hauerwas, he envisions medical care as a precious craft honed by the development of virtue.
Do we bring our preformed politics into church or does the church transform us into disciples who practice a Jesus kind of politics?