Criminal Communion
The social construction of the criminal other has long served as a justification for subjugation. Pope Francis has stated that the people of God can smell holiness, and perhaps there is also a greater...
View Article#NoBootsNoBedsNoWall: Cuentos on how Industrial Complexes Feed off the Social...
…and they all crossed freely …and they were heard without initial judgement Source
View ArticleFrom Faithful Patriot to Faithful Presence
The Trump administration’s most recent actions at the border signal the end of all pretense by the president—and many in his base—that Christian ethical principles should meaningfully inform U.S....
View ArticleMovement and Contra-movement: A Pneumatological Response to Migration
Life in God is defined by a joyous freedom of movement, a loving and adventurous invitation to the dance of the Spirit. The book of Acts is witness to those who accepted this invitation like Peter,...
View ArticleThe Three Faces of Ministry to Migrants
On Monday, February 4, Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life held a panel discussion titled “Beyond the Wall: Human Impacts, Moral Principles, and Policy...
View ArticleThe Social Mortgage on National Sovereignty in the Immigration Debate
The prophetic role of the Church here is to crack open and break up this renewed parochial nationalism, and remind all of the words of Paul in Galatians 3:28, that regardless of background, we are all...
View ArticleParticular Identities in the Christian Multiverse
The import of particular identities for the national identity is not to be dismissed precisely because it is what the nationalist agenda attempts. This means that our religious discourse has to account...
View ArticleBearing Witness to the Lived Realities of Our Migrant Kin
We Christians who are citizens must be physically present on the border with México, that we might bear witness to the realities of what we experience alongside those who are most acutely affected by...
View Article“Get Up and Eat”: The Political Act of Feeding—1 Kings 19:1–15a
The posture that invites those who are struggling for freedom to “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you” is a political posture laden with messianic power. Source
View ArticleTeaching in Times of State Violence
In thinking through what my instruction looks like, I have begun to take into account what the act of deportation does to a family, how it can be addressed and thinking through trauma informed...
View ArticleDeconstructing the Canon
If one speaks of Political Theology as a “field” with its own “canon” one must surely be preparing to deconstruct it.Source
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