What is the “religious left” and what are its prospects for responding to the current moment of authoritarian populism? The…
The religious left: Memory, trajectory, relevance
United States
Mansplaining religion
While the hot cases [in Malaysia] differ in their details from those in the United States, the structure of the…
Abduction as abduction
Lepselter’s text is a magisterial enactment of the thing that it is ultimately about: American weirdness.
The American romance of the not-so-little black dress
The focus on nuns in Heavenly Bodies highlights the historical oddness—really, the queerness—of nuns in the American imagination. It is…
Patriarchy without fatherhood in the Nation of Islam
In this forum’s considerations of fathers as God-like and God as father-like, the NOI, as well as the Black American…
Global evangelicalism unbound
Defining the boundaries of evangelicalism, always a difficult task, appears even more fraught at a time when (white) evangelicalism has…
Keeping the children captive
“God the Father” has some white supremacist dirty laundry in the United States. The image of the Divine Father is…
Christian theology, feminism, and unmarked fatherhood
For a female theologian of my age, writing a post on divine fatherhood is a strange throwback experience.
Solidarity as the undoing of white supremacy
Solidarity is, in fact, the modus operandus of her entire project. Solidarity is made for Bouteldja through connections that transgress…
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders—An introduction
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders is a historical study, but it can help us understand the role of…