Moral Injury, Marxist Organizing and Christian Grace
The personal, social and psychic trauma of capitalism is well-understood by Marxists. But there’s no pan-Marxist framework for “moral injury” and amends. Could Christian grace be a resource for healing the wounds of the working class?
“And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race”? Reflections On the Election in Britain
With darkly appropriate humour it was on Friday 13th December that British people awoke to learn that Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party had won the country’s general election. A landslide victory, giving Johnson a majority of 78 members of parliament (MPs), ensured that he will be able to enact whatever measures he wishes. We can be […]
Brazil and the New Primitive Accumulation
When traveling from Vitória Brazil to its neighboring city to the South, Vila Velha, you will cross over Vitória Bay by an impressive two mile long beam bridge known colloquially by the locals as the Terceira Ponte or Third Bridge. Though the bridge towers 82 yards above the bay, it still passes under the shadow […]
Recovering the Revolutionary Gospels for Christmas
Christmas at its best celebrates the entrance in to the world of one who would bring good news to the poor and freedom for the prisoner.
American Socialist Historiography: Pushing Back
Gary Dorrien highlights the vital contribution of Christian socialists to the tradition of democratic socialism
Working on the Bias: Reviewers, Critics, and the Christian Point d’Honneur
Christian criticism of the sort that analyzes material and political structures is a lost art. The Bias exists to change that.
A Wealth That Differentiates: On God and Mammon
The dominant way of understanding individual wealth in Christianity is that it’s not a problem in and of itself, that it’s not essentially wrong or, with more weight, evil. What matters is how one uses one’s wealth, how one wields it with respect to others and carries oneself with respect to it. Clement of Alexandria […]