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The Brink

Too Little Help on a Tuesday

Chile’s fertility rate has fallen below one child per woman, and the question that raises is not whether parents still love their children, but what a society owes the people it asks to do the caring.

By Sebastian Budinich
Cultural Theologies of Climate Discourse

Emily Theus speaks with Susannah Crockford about her new book on religion and climate change.

By Emily Theus & Susannah Crockford
Bringing More Than Enough

Historically, it’s been interpreted as one should be expectant of the Second Coming of Christ at all times… Yet the parable seems to be simpler than this. It’s about being intentional, present, and prepared.

By Timothy Wotring

Around the Network

Sharing Sorrow: On Jacqueline and Gillian Rose
By Robert Lucas Scott
A Small Death, a New Beginning

Cara Rock-Singer examines what reproductive processes reveal about religious and political life and shows how Jewish tradition is transmitted and reinvented through the ongoing labor of reproduction.

By Cara Rock-Singer
Caesar’s Economy or God’s?

The economy of Spirit, like God’s polity, is countercultural. The way out of the trap of living within the lie that the world is defined by boundaries shaped by tyranny and obedience to it, is to tell the truth that life demands freedom and creativity, valuing relationships over material things.

By Welling Hall

Symposia

The Brink

Attention, Excess, and Interdependence: Care and Political Theology

By Emma McDonald Kennedy
Theological Negotiations: Pope Leo, President Trump, and Their Others

When authority is reduced to the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots,’ we also reduce the figures within these debates to mere political caricatures of one another, trapped in a cat fight from which there is no escape.

By Zaccary Haney
Reevaluating Charisma

As is the case with religion, progressive intellectuals tend to look on charisma with suspicion, relegating it to the realm of authoritarian and manipulative politics.

By Maor Levitin

ASSEMBLY Podcast

S4 E9: Why Synthetic Religions? On Nature, Culture, and the Political Struggle to Slow Down Time
By Amanda Furiasse
S4 E8 – Religion after the Outrage
By Amanda Furiasse
S 4 E 7- Adaptive Reuse
By Sher Tareen