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D. L. Mayfield explores her personal experiences of American inequality and considers what social justice might really looks like.

A part of me is thinking, just drop it. Don’t cover this stuff. There are only TWO representatives lobbying for Christianity as the state religion in North Carolina. Two wackos. That’s it. [Actually, that’s not too shabby considering the region. Hey, I’m from NC. I can make these kind of comments. Love ya’, mom.] It’s […]

This body of work from photographer Kurt Simonson relates to his experiences living at the L’Abri communities and takes notice of themes such as stillness, presence, and community.

Curator Magazine posted my review of To The Wonder last week. It was a delight to write for them. But more could have been said about the O’Keefe orchid and succulent shots, the shot focus on the mirror image of the unicorn in one of the medieval “Lady and the Unicorn” tapestries, the Lorica of St. Patrick, […]

The economy of salvation enacted by Christ on the cross displays the divine economy of plenitude, ceaseless generosity, and superabundance.

“Approximately two thousand of these ‘Easter’ Sundays have occurred and take a look around you: things aren’t any better. They’re actually worse. What’s improved since ‘the’ messiah showed up? We’re absolutely no better off than we were two thousand years ago. I don’t see how Jesus made the slightest bit of real difference at all.” […]

The board of directors of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. recently, and unanimously, decided that they will not invest in companies that “benefit from products or services used to perpetrate acts of violence against Palestinians, Israelis and other people groups.” Okay, I know. I can’t believe we had to vote on that one, but still […]

Prada, teaser for Candy, by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola   “Ethical, juridical, or political responsibility, if there is any, consists in deciding on the strategic orientation to give to this problematic…for which truth, no more than reality, is not an object given in advance that it would be a matter of simply reflecting adequately.” Jacques […]

Theodor Adorno, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek: What do these thinkers have in common? First, they are all Marxists.1 Second, they have all received significant attention in the theological community; each of these theorists, for example, has been the subject of a full-length volume in Continuum’s exciting Philosophy […]