Archive - Political Devotions

A liturgy for protesting with strangers

Inspired by Thomas Merton & our three-person D.C. protest

Apr 10 •

Voting isn't democratic. It's oligarchic.

Supplement it with democratic practice

Jun 27, 2024 •

John's Gospel as a jury trial

and the jury room as a model for public freedom

Jun 19 •

Spiritual life in political revolution

In Kiev, Gdańsk, & ancient Jerusalem, revolution changes people

Nov 12, 2024 •

The Bible's book on human sovereignty

Jun 12 •

Your conception of God might affect your politics

A theologian's test could help us reclaim our political lives

Sep 4, 2024 •

Make nature artificial again

Slow the rise of global temperatures — and global absolutism

Dec 12, 2024 •

A liturgy for hosting strangers

Hospitality as toleration's political upgrade

Jun 26 •

Father Abraham's lit crit

Finding alternative communities in Dickinson, Shakespeare & Capote

May 20 •

How redistribution became the Founders' orthodoxy

Reformation-era republicans took God's claim to all land seriously

Mar 13 •

The beauty of proximity

In Arlandria, three young women live with undocumented immigrants (and with cockroaches, bedbugs, and rats) to learn Jesus's public way

Jun 19, 2024 •

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At the cathedral: truth to power

An Italian philosopher challenges the church to become exiles again

Feb 5 •

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