For those of us in the United States, Gandhi’s birthday is also an opportunity to reflect on how lessons from…
Gandhi’s birthday and the American religious left
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Does the United States need a religious left?
Such sudden injunctions to mobilize religion for political gains ignore the fact that progressive and radical religious movements have been…
The religious left: Memory, trajectory, relevance
What is the “religious left” and what are its prospects for responding to the current moment of authoritarian populism? The…
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.