This piece explores connections between science fiction and lyric poetry.

In “Generation Hwabyung Telepathy” and “A Resume of Traumas,” the Korean American lyric speaker struggles with the pain of generational trauma that she has inherited from her father and from the grandfather she has never met.

“Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized ‘수능’” experiments with design fiction to disrupt overly rehearsed ways of thinking about Korea’s past(s), present(s), and future(s).

Comprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]

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In comics: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity. A blog post commissioned by UC Press Blog about the book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species.

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Review of “Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God” by Anthony D. Baker, “Great Stage of Fools: A Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays” by Peter J. Leithart, and “Shakeshafte & Other Plays” by Rowan Williams.

Review of “No Flesh Shall Glory: How the Bible Destroys the Foundations of Racism” by C. Herbert Oliver and “How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice” by Jemar Tisby.

Review essay of “Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents” by Rod Dreher and “Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition” by Roland Boer.

Review essay of “Children of the Waters of Meribah: Black Liberation Theology, the Miriamic Tradition, and the Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Empire” by Allan Aubrey Boesak and “Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice” edited by Mae Elsie Cannon and Andrea Smith.

Review essay of “Dare We Speak of Hope? Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics” by Allan Aubrey Boesak, “Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology” by James K. A. Smith, and “Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World” by David VanDrunen.

Review essay of “Confessions” by Augustine, translated by Sarah Ruden and “On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts” by James K. A. Smith.

Review essay of “The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology” by Lilian
Calles Barger and “Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian” by James H. Cone.