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How this year’s Oscar-winning best picture can teach us about our selfhood and search for meaning.

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.

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Robert Fischell, inventor extraordinaire, claims to have created a device capable of eliminating chronic pain: If the body is a house, the nervous system is its electrical wiring. The network, which has millions of entry […]

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?

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week.   What would Pope Francis say about Planned Parenthood? Much of the public discussion in editorials and social media has focused on whether she and other Planned Parenthood employees sold […]

A story of a student waking up to the genocidal conquest that founded her country and the contemporary reenactments of this violence.