Finally, after two decades of hard work (or, well, more like two years of me kind of trying), Third-Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the Shadow of Religious Empire is finally out. This is a collection of brief theological articles discussing everything from national holidays to Steve Irwin, from Star Trek to parthenogenesis (and nope, Mother Mary, female whipped-tail lizards, and marmokrebs decidely do not get it on).

Primarily, it’s a book about the co-opting of nationalism with Christianity, but it also attempts to discuss what it means to faithfully embody this really absurd path Jesus walked. The implications of this dissident way demand that we pay attention to creation, animals, enemies, our neighbors, and how we are often unwittingly shaped by larger cultural forces bent on domesticating Christianity by turning it into a cultural norm that can be subsumed by both the state and the market.

 

Also, did I mention the articles on Star Trek?