Kingdom of God

This essay draws on Judith Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure to discuss the relationship between queerness and children.

This essay explores the theological ambiguity between the kingdom of God and territorial Israel, both in the context of St. Justin Martyr and of contemporary theological reflection on place.

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

In his most recent book, N. T. Wright captures the integration of politics and theology in the Gospels, but his framing of the argument proves problematic on the question of Christianity’s creedal tradition.

In this essay, Ryan Davis wrestles with God’s goodness and Scriptural promises in the face of profound physical suffering.

I suppose we, as a blog that concerns itself with the media, would be a bit remiss if we had not given some attention to the recent scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.  The well-known and highly successful media conglomerate has been charged with phone hacking.  Allegedly, News of the World, a subsidiary of News […]

In this theological response to the Haiti earthquake, Nathan Kerr suggests that rather than merely speaking about God, Christians should inhabit a mode of speaking to God that responds to the oppressed victims of Haiti by living in solidarity with them, both in revolt against the powers that oppress and in hope that God might liberate them to live and love freely.

In this essay, Scott Small describes surprising encounters of the sacred in the music of Thelonious Monk.