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Episode 26: Ethicist Reggie Williams, author of Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus
A conversation with ethicist Reggie Williams about Bonhoeffer, Black Jesus, racism, and more
The language of rights and its limits
My niece Butterfly has me thinking about bodies, love, and responsibility.
A self-emptying of privilege
Brandan Robertson grounds his discussion of Christians and privilege in the kenosis hymn of Philippians 2.
March 19, Lent 4A (John 9:1-41)
The light of the world illumines those who are open but is opaque to those who claim powerful position.
Did God intend for Adam and Eve to live forever?
Maybe immortality is about more than not being dead.
The Samaritan woman vs. our assumptions (John 4:5-42)
She doesn’t even have a name. Surely she is a questionable character if she has no name.
What I wished for
Sometimes we can’t express what we want, even when we are in desperate need.
The theological anthropologies implicit in our politics
David Zahl maps the conservative/liberal binary according to distinctions between high and low anthropologies.
In Search of Truth and Justice: An Interview with Willie Francois III (S2E3)
“What does it mean to cultivate leaders who are building power inside prison?”
Staying in a culture of leaving
My parents arrived in the US with three suitcases and two toddlers. I’ve experienced wanderlust ever since.
March 12, Lent 3A (Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; John 4:5-42)
Water dominated the imaginations of our ancestors in faith, whose stories often called for either a canteen or galoshes.
Why did conservative evangelicals turn against the environment?
It was mostly politics, argues historian Neall Pogue.
