At the height of the Cold War, a Nicaraguan poet moved to the woods of Kentucky to contemplate God with a celebrity monk. Their friendship—grounded in politics, poetry, and religion—is a model for today’s cosmopolitan left.
Working to dismantle homophobia and transphobia and build Christian communities fully committed to queer political movements.
At its core, what we are lacking is a power analysis—a clear, honest account of who holds power, how they wield it, and at whose expense. Without this analysis, we are left to blame ourselves for the conditions we live in: economic precarity for the working majority, escalating threats to civil rights based on gender, sex, and race, and the climate crisis that threatens our collective future.
Kendall Gunter reviews Lee Edelman’s Bad Education, asking if queer theology provides a better response for how to love the world.
Christine Emba’s recent book attempts to diagnose the malaise of contemporary sex culture. But her persistent avoidance of queer experience and theory, as well as an insufficient analysis of capitalism, thwarts her attempt at a new sexual ethic beyond consent.
Mental health practitioner Gabes Torres reflects on the desire for spectacle in social change and the need for grassroots organizing to embody practices of listening, rest, and collective care.
New York’s first socialist mayor, George R. Lunn, sought to put “Christianity applied” into practice at the city level.
Filipino hip-hop albums Kolateral and Walang Panginoon ang Lupa embody prophetic art, confronting fascism, capitalism, and empire.
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf confronts Trump’s deportation regime by embracing the sanctuary movement as a faithful stand against state violence and moral injury.
Matt McManus considers Habermas’s optimistic vision for modern philosophy in the final volume of “Also a History of Philosophy.”
Embodying a sanctuary imagination means being accountable to those impacted by the anti-LGBTQ+ agenda of the Trump regime.
Through analysis and critique of right-wing Christians, identifying how to equip and empower anti-fascist and liberatory forms of faith.
Roberto Che Espinoza, a Trans activist, theologian, and pastor reflects on what Alfred, New York, has taught him about following Jesus at the end of the US empire and amid the political crises of a second Trump presidency.
The road to beating Trumpism and displacing failed liberalism lies through a rebuilding of multiracial working-class solidarity.
Matt McManus engages the ambition and omissions in Kevin Vallier’s All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternative to Liberalism.
How Dorothee Soëlle’s theology of suffering helps draw out mourning’s political possibilities.
An Interview with Matthew McManus on his most recent book and the virtues of the liberal socialist tradition.
At its core, what we are lacking is a power analysis—a clear, honest account of who holds power, how they wield it, and at whose expense. Without this analysis, we are left to blame ourselves for the conditions we live in: economic precarity for the working majority, escalating threats to civil rights based on gender, sex, and race, and the climate crisis that threatens our collective future.
MacIntyre never departed from his Marxist influence. He understood Marx as part of a long genealogy of philosophers who helped us think critically about the human condition, and about imagining life beyond capitalism.
Nobody can reliably predict the long-term legacy of Pope Francis. He will most probably be remembered many decades and even centuries hence as a creative innovator and as a guardian of Catholic social justice advocacy, faithful to the strong commitments of his papal predecessors over the previous century.
Joerg Rieger argues that a true democracy would require not only political power, but economic power. Accountable to the divine, it is the responsibility of religious institutions and actors to organize for a world with more economic democracy.
