Political Theology Network

Is the affective sense of meaning, purpose, and immanence a useful political horizon? Is this discourse of utopia something that we should seek to synthesize in religious or secular political contexts, even if its nostalgic historical reality is not born out in factual analysis?

When a prophet like Günther Anders speaks to us about the whole of what is happening in our time, when he does so with poetic urgency, we should sit up and pay attention to the dangers he names.

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Colonial languages need to be brought into conversation with indigenous languages in anticolonial or decolonial praxis. It is in the process of translation that colonized subjects begin to find themselves.

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It is not enough to only recognize and agree with the protests of needy mothers. It is now time to join with them until the world finally listens.

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After the triumph of Mount Carmel, Elijah collapses under a broom tree and asks to die — not from failure, but from the deeper disappointment of a victory that never moved the throne. Reading 1 Kings 19 against today’s Christian nationalism, this essay argues that authentic prophetic faith is found not in wind, earthquake, or fire, but in the silence, rest, and companionship tha...