Social Fascia Keeps the Score By Anna Mercedes Fascia is “the band of thin, fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports every structure in your body” (Cleveland Clinic). My favorite kind of massage is Read more…
The Indecency of the World Cup in Qatar—Making a F-ing Difference? By Dion Forster I love Berlin! It is an amazing city. I have been here many times in the last decade. As I write Read more…
“An Inescapable Network of Mutuality”: On 9/11 and Nonviolence By John Thatamanil Twenty years ago, in the pages of the Los Angeles Times, just weeks after the events of 11 September 2001, I urged rhetorical rather Read more…
Apocalypse Anymore? By Catherine Keller No doubt the Trump presidency incited my Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Finishing final revisions only weeks after the 2020 U.S. election, I was relieved as I Read more…
“Born Free” – A Deceptive and Dangerous Story about South Africa’s Youth By Dion Forster Each year on the 16th of June, South Africans commemorate Youth Day. It is a day on which we remember Read more…
Democalypse Now: Unveiling our Chances By Catherine Keller What, no more apocalypse? Has the dramatic lurch into catastrophe—white supremacist mobilization, COVID-19, climate denialism—suddenly petered out? Its causes and its supporters aren’t disappearing; their idol Trump Read more…
Pilate vs. The Truth: A Biblical Confrontation for Post-Truth Christians By John Thatamanil Christians of all stripes should know better, but white American evangelicals don’t seem to: there is an absolute contradiction between following the Read more…
Traction Together By Anna Mercedes A moving installation of playground seesaws along the U.S. and Mexico border recently won a major design award from the London Design Museum. The “Teeter Totter Wall” features seesaws in Read more…
Political Counterpoint — for the Election and Beyond By Catherine Keller Counterpoint: now there’s an inviting metaphor for political engagement! Imagine politics as a music of diversity, of contrasts effecting a vibrant complexity, a perspectival Read more…
Do Better than Barmen: “Say Our Names” By Anna Mercedes Shortly after 9/11, 2001, I was in graduate school studying theology just outside of New York, and much of my theological analysis was turned toward Read more…
