empire

Andor demonstrates that Star Wars is still one of our most compelling fictional accounts of imperial power—and the various means of resisting it.

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to the Romans.

A global map of Christianity is stalked by imperial ghosts.

Art historian Matthew Milliner has written a groundbreaking history of a beloved icon’s role in imperial Christianity’s collapse.

Lyndsey Medford’s beautiful new book looks to interconnectedness amid the diseases of capitalism and injustice.

Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage.

In Luke’s postresurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic.

According to Reformation scholar Jason Mahn, the birth of Christendom was a sort of Fall.

A friend recently announced that he had given up hope for the human race. There are days when I find myself thinking about this a lot.

Like it or not, the world’s religious landscape owes much to the long history of European imperialism. But the story of empire and missions is more complex than we might assume.

If one moment symbolizes the unification of the continents, it might be the creation of the diocese of Manila—as a suffragan see of Mexico City.

“Are you scribes gone awry?” Jesus asks us. “Have you got good religion?”