Race and the Disfiguration of the Christian Social Imagination: An Interview...
Willie Jennings discusses the racial disfigurement of the Christian social imagination and how its heritage continues to plague our view of people and the world.
View ArticleGhazal for Emmett Till
A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.
View ArticleThere’s Another Country: The Conceptual Geography of the Letter to the Ephesians
Ephesians teaches us how Christian theology can hold geography as neither primary and nonnegotiable nor irrelevant and unspiritual.
View ArticleReinhabiting Place: The Work of Bioregional Discipleship
Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are. —Ortega Y Gasset Alan Durning, founder of the Seattle-based Sightline Institute, recounts the story of a trip he took to the...
View ArticleOn Hollowed Ground? The Ambivalent Territoriality of Saint Justin’s...
This essay explores the theological ambiguity between the kingdom of God and territorial Israel, both in the context of St. Justin Martyr and of contemporary theological reflection on place.
View ArticleRace and the Disfiguration of the Christian Social Imagination: An Interview...
The eminent scholar of African American history, John Hope Franklin, once commented that “We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world toward one...
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Ghazal for Emmett Till
Quiet now your tongue You’re in this cotton land Oaks swing long limbs of men on this cotton land You come with song stuck under your heels like heat The moist pinprick of flesh Jazz of this tin land...
View ArticleThere’s Another Country: The Conceptual Geography of the Letter to the Ephesians
Newspaper columnists insist that my country, the United Kingdom, is a Christian country, while their counterparts at different papers rail against our military misadventures in Muslim lands. In parts...
View ArticleReinhabiting Place: The Work of Bioregional Discipleship
Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are. —Ortega Y Gasset Alan Durning, founder of the Seattle-based Sightline Institute, recounts the story of a trip he took to the...
View ArticleOn Hollowed Ground? The Ambivalent Territoriality of Saint Justin’s...
One of the trends to emerge in recent theological discourse is a renewed focus on Jesus’s proclamation of the kingdom of God. In particular, leading scholars have argued that Jesus’s kingdom vision was...
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