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(Post)Critical Political Theology and the Uses and Misuses of Whiteness Discourse Articles & EssaysEthnographyRacial CapitalismWhiteness

(Post)Critical Political Theology and the Uses and Misuses of Whiteness Discourse

A journal article for Political Theology. ABSTRACTIn this essay, I advance a theological account of critique that attends to the material nature of creaturely life. This account involves first the “postcritique” movement recently taken up by literary theorists. In order to demonstrate what postcritique involves…
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April 20, 2021
A Sanctuary Politics: Being the Church in the Time of Trump (co-written with Stanley Hauerwas) Articles & EssaysChurchPolitics

A Sanctuary Politics: Being the Church in the Time of Trump (co-written with Stanley Hauerwas)

This article was originally published by ABC Religion & Ethics. The two of us admit that, back when Donald Trump's presidential candidacy was at best a strange curiosity, we entertained its possibility as an adventurous thought experiment: "What would that be like?" Now that we live in…
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March 30, 2017
The Otherness of Children as a Hint of an Outside: Michel Foucault, Richard Yates, and Karl Barth on Suburban Life Articles & EssaysBarthChildrenFoucault

The Otherness of Children as a Hint of an Outside: Michel Foucault, Richard Yates, and Karl Barth on Suburban Life

An article in Theology & Sexuality. The essay shows how the ordinary life of children might save suburbia from itself. Disenchanted with contemporary existence, temptations of ideality tend to both vilify and verify suburban life as banal, yet to the extent that suburban life means…
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June 1, 2009