Race and Hospitality: Pursuing Racial Reconciliation through Derrida’s Understanding of Hospitality
This essay articulates how Derrida’s notion of hospitality may help us to overcome structural racism.
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Listening on the Day of Silence: Khora and Holy Saturday
Eric Severson explores the neglected day of Christianity’s Holy Saturday by way of Plato’s concept of khora, offering a perspective on Sabbath that includes the darkness and despair of the “middle day.”
Embracing Sister Death: The Fraternal Worldview of Francis of Assisi as a Source for Christian Eschatological Hope
In this essay the author explores the fraternal worldview exhibited in the work of Francis of Assisi as a contemporary source for Christian hope in the face of death.
On What Could Quite Rightly Pass for a Fetish: Some Thoughts on Whether “Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’”
In this essay, Ben Suriano responds to Jon Stanley’s claim that there are at least two (very biblical) ways that every Christian would do well to “quite rightly pass for an atheist.” The essay argues that every Christian should rather “quite rightly pass for a Christian” because the predominant form of atheism is in fact the core metaphysical and ontological assumption that makes possible the imperial logics operative in both the Roman and modern order.
Why Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’
In this essay, Jon Stanley looks at the Christian life as transcending the categories of atheism and theism.