Category: Autumn/Winter 2023

Reframing Forgiveness

A Q&A with Matthew Ichihashi Potts on his latest book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account. By Suzie Greco

Rooting in Relationality

Recent publications on plant consciousness invite us to rethink our entanglements with plant life and our understanding of ourselves among other species. By Natalia Schwien Scott

Improvisations in the Key of Life

Inspired by Raymond Carr’s extended metaphor of musicality and theological language, I would say that the authors here are searching for a new key, calling us to a “radical dynamism” as they model the kinds of improvisation needed to meet the stark realities of our time. By Wendy McDowell

Under a Birdless Sky

Dialogue Under a Birdless Sky Illustration by Andrew Zbihlyj Autumn/Winter 2023 Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email By Toby Cox The Towers of Silence, or dakhmas, are where Zoroastrians...

A Heart-Shaped Rock

Emerson never relinquished his belief in the intimate colloquy of mind and matter. By Susan Lanzoni

Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations

Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global pursuit of reconciliation is a cautionary tale if we are going to take corporate and civic responsibility for the crime of enslavement. By Terrence L. Johnson

Dis/appearing

Instead of a theodicy of progress, we need to enact a “hauntodicy of blackness” by staying with the dead and not moving on. By Biko Mandela Gray

The Glory of the Coming of the Lord

The last battle of Revelation informs and inspires the public sphere, whether or not the polarizing rhetoric explicitly refers to the Christian faith. By Austin Bogues

Paths of Coincidence in Thomas Hardy

The melodramatic aspects of Thomas Hardy’s novels lend themselves to an examination of the ordinary uncertainty of life—the landscape of Michael Jackson’s Coincidences: Synchronicity, Verisimilitude, and Storytelling. By Maria Cecilia Holt

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