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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10

My father's due process

Even after his death, he encourages me to fight

Aug 13 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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Neighborhood public media

Video directors in Milwaukee and D.C. help communities shine

Aug 5 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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1:11:22

July 2025

The laying off of hands: a liturgy

Letting our kids become their own political protagonists

Jul 25 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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Be ye politically perfect

Jesus' call as path, not pathology

Jul 17 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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My monstrous innocence

Political risk and the dark night of my conscience

Jul 10 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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June 2025

A liturgy for hosting strangers

Hospitality as toleration's political upgrade

Jun 26 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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John's Gospel as a jury trial

and the jury room as a model for public freedom

Jun 19 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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0 Kings

The Bible's book on human sovereignty

Jun 12 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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7

May 2025

At several removes

Pilgrimages that deepen into political exile

May 28 • 

Bryce Tolpen

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