The paradox of hypocrisy

A dialogue on public suspicion

Mar 24 • Bryce Tolpen

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Designing for public freedom

John the Baptist can lead city planners off the grid

Mar 12 • Bryce Tolpen

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Binding and loosing as Arendt’s twin faculties

Jesus gives us the keys to the public realm—and a covenantal basis for political theology

Mar 5 • Bryce Tolpen

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February 2026

Copts between martyrs and migrants

Watch now | Anthropologist Candace Lukasik on how Copts navigate today's Egypt & America

Feb 17 • Bryce Tolpen

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Power & money switch polarity

How our oligarchy is giving way to authoritarianism

Feb 5 • Bryce Tolpen

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Community organizing like Jesus

Gerrel Jones & Renew Birmingham change the culture

Feb 3 • Bryce Tolpen

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January 2026

Arendt: ICE's tactics create police states

ICE's lawlessness mirrors methods used in interwar Europe's mass deportations

Jan 26 • Bryce Tolpen

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The invisible poor

Jesus & John Adams on poverty and public life

Jan 21 • Bryce Tolpen

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Babel's bricks & the Bible's stones

Community building in an age of conformity

Jan 6 • Bryce Tolpen

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December 2025

Which neighborhood was neighbor?

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

Dec 16, 2025 • Bryce Tolpen

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A liturgy for the disappeared

based on public rites in Chile, Arlington & Kashmir

Dec 2, 2025 • 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, 2025 • Bryce Tolpen

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