Which neighborhood was neighbor?

Emerson, Jacobs & Jesus on creating "a nation of friends"

Dec 16 • Bryce Tolpen

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A liturgy for the disappeared

based on public rites in Chile, Arlington & Kashmir

Dec 2 • Bryce Tolpen

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November 2025

Nine devotional innings in relief

A bullpen game pitched by my pride, my midlife crisis & my imposter syndrome

Nov 20 • Bryce Tolpen

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Let bowling leagues run the show

"Functional representation" supports civic engagement

Nov 11 • Bryce Tolpen

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Announcing The School of Public Life: Thinking with Hannah Arendt

Thinking and politics/citizenship must be put back together.

Published on Solidarity Hall • Nov 8

October 2025

The world God so loved

A necessarily political John 3:16

Oct 30 • Bryce Tolpen

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Jesus is antisocial, so he parties

like the Romans aren't. even. there.

Oct 14 • Bryce Tolpen

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Postliteracy and political renewal

Thoughts on John Miedema's The Divine Mind

Published on John Miedema • Oct 2

September 2025

Don't accept oppression. Overaccept it.

Creating with God's derivative justice

Sep 23 • Bryce Tolpen

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A politics stronger than death

Where the long debate between death and exile may lead us

Sep 11 • Bryce Tolpen

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August 2025

Have we come to America?

Shakespeare addresses the Virginia colonists’ disconnection from land & people

Aug 27 • Bryce Tolpen

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Jesus as trickster

The oppressed get the gist . . . and the jest

Aug 20 • Bryce Tolpen

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