Realizing my pandemic amnesia is yet another confirmation of the interpretive power of positionality and the never-ending work of learning…
Pamela Klassen
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Revelations in method
Uncanny or rational, spiritual or empirical, the genesis of thinking cannot be pinned down.
Networks of reception, conditions of audibility: A reply to Johnson and Walker
The line between critique and credulity, or between cynicism and naiveté, is at the heart of all of the books…
Ekklesia: An introduction
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State takes the tenacious rubric of “church and state” and examines it through a…
Epic lives
When the editors asked me to ponder the question “Is this all there is?” my mind went immediately to the…
Secular Christian power and the spiritual invention of nations
In the Americas, missionary colonialism prospered on the sharp edge of secular Christian power. Cutting up land with a blade…
The Charter of Quebec Values
On November 7th, 2013, on the heels of a heated public debate about the role of religion in public life,…
Divine pervasion and the change that isn’t
Pervasive presence—or just ordinary ubiquity—is one of the main strategies in Oprah’s attempt to serve as a guide through the…
Blinded by the light, or, Why can’t liberals see?
Where a century ago liberal Christians (and even some anthropologists) were citing Marx and Bergson in the hope of transforming…
The spiritual politics of healing
Debates regarding health care have struck at the core of social and political imaginaries of what it means for both…