Evangelicalism and the Others of Invention Until District 9, aliens were the ultimate "Other." It's not that D9 is the first film ever to portray aliens sympathetically, or that there aren't ot...

All Christians are white supremacists. They’re also all Spanish inquisitors. They all believe the world is six thousand years old. They all believe that women have no right to teach theology to men....

In his seminal volume, Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet, Dale C. Allison argues (as I have here and here) that Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet who believed that a final judgment of humankind an...

The American Churches of Laissez-Faire Capitalism (typified in denominations like AIG, Blackwater, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Exxon, Enron, Monsanto, and Wal-Mart, indebted to the teachings of the prophe...

My friend Michael DeFazio and I have been having a discussion on the significance of voting here in the U.S. This is a big issue for Christian pacifists, usually influenced by strands of Yoderian and/...

The internal unity of a Christian church can be attained or maintained today only by minimizing and playing down the radical historical oppositions that divide its members. In other words, one must pa...

I’ve been asked by a partner in resistance over at Death and the Maiden to write my thoughts on the ethical status of torture. Specifically, I’ve been asked to answer two questions: 1) What is t...

From Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation (Boston: Beacon, 1969) pp. 7-8: This [affluent] society is obscene in producing and indecently exposing a stifling abundance of wares while depriving it...