A Campgate of the Mind: Roman Propaganda and Trump’s America
The classicist Gavin Richardson looks at walls in late Roman propaganda and what they have to tell us in the Age of Trump.
The classicist Gavin Richardson looks at walls in late Roman propaganda and what they have to tell us in the Age of Trump.
Jeanne Murray Walker’s poem regrets how political decisions negatively affect the environment.
In this interview with Judith Butler, we consider her work in light of the recent events at Standing Rock and the 2016 presidential election.
Alexandria Barbera reflects on the Republican politics that undergird evangelical faith and how this sets Trump up for success among conservative evangelicals.
In light of the 2016 presidential campaign, Justin Randall Phillips analyzes the ways in which American evangelicalism is the product and reflection of racial division.
Not unlike the admonitions of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, religious leaders’ calls to welcome the disenfranchised stranger often fall on deaf ears in their congregations. I can’t help but wonder what’s going on here. What has brought the American church to this place? Why are so many Christians going against their religious authorities on this particular issue?
Rhetorically speaking, it’s unbelievable that the media has recently directed (nearly) all of its attention to the “Birthers,” a group which is currently championed by author, businessman, and television personality, Donald Trump. Then again, this is America. So maybe it’s not so “unbelievable” after all! For those of you who are unfamiliar with the highly […]
A look at the current economic crisis through a Lukan parable.