In this essay Brandy Daniels explores how a queer embrace of failure is generative for Christian virtue ethical frameworks; and argues that failure, through its critical skepticism of the notion of stable and normative paths towards clear ideals, provides a counter-framework for a theological anthropology that acknowledges and affirms creaturely existence and engenders a liberative ethics grounded in risk-taking and inclusion.
A poem about the life/death/life cycle of the seasons and those we love.
By reading the book of Jonah along with Jack Halberstam’s Queer Art of Failure this piece asks what questions a political theology written from the side and through the affects of failures might pose and face.
At critical moments in the history of Christianity, it is the outsiders, rather than people of faith and the theologians who study that faith, who seem best equipped to tell us the truth about who we are. By all indications, Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure is not directly interested in religion, theology, or […]
Is God’s love of any material benefit to trauma survivors, particularly to survivors of sexualized violence?
A story of a student waking up to the genocidal conquest that founded her country and the contemporary reenactments of this violence.
A character study examining the human desire for permanence and importance apart from normative life in Birdman.
A college intern interviews torture survivors for the United Nations in a refugee camp and finds herself struggling with secondary trauma.
This piece explores the social psychology of judgment, how this affects our evaluation of film, and how such influences might be mined for their theological significance.
