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Christianity was forged as a movement in opposition to a hegemonic and oppressive Roman empire. Today, in that same spirit, battling against the oppressive weight of corporate greed and a government...
View ArticleHosanna!
This procession down to Jerusalem is one of those very public moments in Jesus’ ministry. It could be called his most brilliant act of political theatre. Jesus proceeds toward Jerusalem, with a crowd...
View ArticleOn the Force-feeding of Hunger Strikers
Currently there are about 100 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay Detention on hunger strike (89 of whom have been determined to be innocent of accusations but not released and some of whom have been on hunger...
View ArticleRequiem for Freddie Gray: No More Violence in My Name – Anna Floerke Scheid
For the purposes of this essay I am intentionally setting aside the usually valuable virtue of intellectual disinterestedness. People are dying, and cities are burning, so disinterestedness seems less...
View ArticleHoly Disobedience (Anna Floerke Scheid)
Not a day has gone by since the Inauguration of President Donald Trump that one group or another hasn’t taken to the streets in protest. Indeed, political resistance is getting so trendy that Pepsi...
View ArticleThe Politics of Taking a Knee—Matthew 22:15-22 (Fritz Wendt)
Jesus' trick answer to the Pharisees concerning the paying of taxes to Caesar speaks to the Christian's appropriate posture to American Civil Religion, which has been provoked into a fuller revelation...
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