Lincoln's "merely revolutionary" Declaration

How Kafka's parables can pull us back from our Kafkaesque politics

Jul 1 • Bryce Tolpen

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June 2026

What to the Gentile is Pentecost?

Acts helps us understand Frederick Douglass's July 4th dilemma

Jun 16 • Bryce Tolpen

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Yes, but can it preach?

Tailoring my voting rights article for my Southern Black church

Jun 9 • Bryce Tolpen

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Liberty and germ theory

While seeking liberty, the Founders found freedom

Jun 3 • Bryce Tolpen

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May 2026

Galatians & the Voting Rights Act

Paul teaches the Supreme Court about balancing—and honoring—covenants

May 22 • Bryce Tolpen

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A half-hearted appeal to heaven

The American Revolution still lives out Locke's self-contradiction

May 7 • Bryce Tolpen

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April 2026

First class, then justice follows

Elmahaba Center's work with Nashville's Arabic-speaking workers

Apr 28 • Bryce Tolpen

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18:54

Revolutions in space & time

& how the American Revolution combines them

Apr 22 • Bryce Tolpen

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No Kings & the coming community

Even in small towns, we finally appear to ourselves

Apr 7 • Bryce Tolpen

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March 2026

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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