Brandon Wrencher

Our Cries for Equity

Brandon Wrencher offers a theological and liberationist reading of the story of Cain and Abel.

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Patrick Gardner

Spirit, Tradition, and the Pneumatology of Liberation

I argue that both Tradition and liberation from social sin are rooted in the action of the Holy Spirit; I then offer some constructive thoughts about the implications that follow for a liberative understanding of Tradition.

Collin Cornell

Reenchanting the Body

In this essay, Collin Cornell interrogates the modern, disenchanted body and explores avenues for reenchantment through two biblical themes, law and powers.

Daniel Colucciello Barber

The Actuality of Liberation’s Problem

Christianity and Marxism are bound together by the thought of liberation, but it is time to think liberation as a problem in itself, as a matter of prophecy rather than of conversion.

Timothy McGee

Bearing the Silence: On James Baldwin and Prayer

Through an examination of the role of silence in James Baldwin’s novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, this paper explores how prayer can open up life within and beyond a racist, oppressive social order.

Halden Doerge

The Singularity of Jesus and the Mission of the Church: An Interview with Nathan R. Kerr

In this interview, Nathan R. Kerr reflects on some of the conversations that have emerged in the last two years since the release of his book Christ, History, and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission. In particular, he explores the connections between Christology, the nature and task of theology, and the mission of the church in […]