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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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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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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