Considering that this global pandemic only exacerbates the existing material, psychological, ontological, and metaphysical violence wielded by an anti-Black world,…
American politics
Gandhi’s birthday and the American religious left
For those of us in the United States, Gandhi’s birthday is also an opportunity to reflect on how lessons from…
What are oaths good for?
As American statesmen and a US Supreme Court Justice in the ’90s were figuring out what to do with their…
At home in the world
McAlister aims for nothing less than a repositioning of the history of American evangelicalism, from an almost entirely domestic context…
Imperialists in cassock?
It is one thing to write a good book. It is another thing entirely to write a timely book, and…
Political myopia and prophetic vision
The hit HBO show Game of Thrones (GoT), for example, is billed as epic fantasy, but at its heart it…
Words can break bones
So we have a few problems. First, we have trouble talking to each other because the talk itself has weight.…
Passion and virtue in public life
When does religious commitment shape believers toward the balance of confidence and intellectual humility required for vigorous engagement in democratic…
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public…
What is scholarship good for?
Beyond calls for more of us to become public intellectuals, what can we do to shift public opinion on issues…