From Mourning to Solidarity
How Dorothee Soëlle’s theology of suffering helps draw out mourning’s political possibilities.
Liberal Socialism Is a Philosophy of Hope
An Interview with Matthew McManus on his most recent book and the virtues of the liberal socialist tradition.
Freedom’s False Promises
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.
Remembering MacIntyre’s Marxism and his Struggle against the Perils of Capitalism
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.
Pope Francis Should be Remembered for his Tireless Advocacy for the Environment, Refugees, Global Peace, and Workers
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.
Asking the Earth to Bear the Burden of Heaven: An Interview with Mohamed Amer Meziane
Colton Bernasol interviews Mohamed Amer Meziane on his recently translated States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization. Their conversation covers the theological roots of modern imperialism, the relationship between empire and the environment, and the undergirding influence of race in European imperial aspirations.
A Case for the Politics of Love
Rather than justice, David True and Tom James call for the revolutionary politics of love and desire as the grounds for transformative, radical, change.
Fighting for a Fantastic Future
During a time when the right-wing is gaining power and mobilizing racialized fear, Rev. Dr. Andrew Wilkes Urges Us to Remember the lush liberation and romanticism at the center of Black History month.
The Radical Witness of Gary Dorrien’s Left-Intellectual Life
Gary Dorrien’s new memoir is a meditative and unhurried account of the people, ideas, history, and experience that influenced a life of deep scholarship and Christian witness charged with the convictions that Christianity at its best activates a life of radical political commitment.
Another Argument for Inclusion? A Review of ‘The Widening of God’s Mercy’
Tim Markatos finds The Widening of God’s Mercy at once authoritative and gentle even as he wonders whether framing conversations around sexuality in terms of inclusion is ultimately doomed from the start.