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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.

28: Environment

Authority

Jeanne Murray Walker’s poem regrets how political decisions negatively affect the environment.

27: Identity

We Are Worldless Without One Another: An Interview with Judith Butler

Judith Butler & Stephanie Berbec
June 26, 2017 / Theology

In this interview with Judith Butler, we consider her work in light of the recent events at Standing Rock and the 2016 presidential election.

27: Identity

Evangelicals and the End of Civic Religion

Alexandria Barbera
November 2, 2016 / Theology

Alexandria Barbera reflects on the Republican politics that undergird evangelical faith and how this sets Trump up for success among conservative evangelicals.

27: Identity

Jesus and the Dispossessed

Justin Randall Phillips
October 31, 2016 / Theology

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.

26: Sport

Will Love Cast Out Fear? The Syrian Refugees and Christian America

Joel Looper
March 31, 2016 / Theology

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?