George Aumoithe: I’m happy we get to speak, Ahmad, following our February 2024 Black Religion and Mental Health symposium at…
Whispers and shouts: Black religion, mental health, and liberation
US politics
Devoted to the church of Fugazi
What a weird format! I’m writing this essay on an airplane currently flying over the North Sea, and it’s hard…
Prosoche: Or, how not to lose a bear
Henry Cowles and Caleb Smith’s thought-provoking exchange raises questions about the possibility, and desirability, of remaining focused and attentive in…
Revisited: Making budgets moral again
Ruth Braunstein revisits her 2019 essay on efforts to reframe the budget as a moral concern. Her work sheds light…
Revisited: Why do evangelicals vote for Trump?
Four years after his initial essay, Philip Gorski revisits his title question of "Why do evangelicals vote for Trump?" in…
Why not just abolish the religion clauses?
“What is a church in the mind of a secular American today?” “How does US law imagine religion?” and “Where…
Making budgets moral again
The release of the Poor People’s Moral Budget calls forth decades of efforts to reframe the budget as a moral…
Understanding the president’s reality: A psychoanalytic contribution to public life
It would not have taken long for French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to realize that President Donald Trump has a paranoid…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Introduction
The one-day workshop which produced these essays focused on “Theologies of American Exceptionalism,” asking participants to expound on an exemplary…