Political Theology Network

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.

Who are you: a tasty morsel or unpalatable fibre?

Progressive Catholic commentators persistently interpret Pope Leo XIV as a character in America’s resistance to Donald Trump.

If you call someone to turn back to dust, you must prepare to be called upon in return.

The presence of technological elites in the Vatican at the release of Magnfica Humanitas indicates a shift in perspective concerning democracy.

Davidson's Saving Utopia narrates the decline and renews the call for utopic vision, but, if we forget the imbrication of heaven with hell—of utopia with dystopia—we will be doomed to repeat it.

The economy of Spirit, like God’s polity, is countercultural.

Pope Leo’s call for disarmament goes so far as to claim that Catholic teaching on just war theory is outdated and needs to be replaced by dialogue and diplomacy.

Tonda's book bears many fruits, but vernacular religion might reveal a different spiritual drama at work in late capitalism than the one the book provocatively stages.

A Christianity fashioned in the image of white national belonging cannot hold the fullness of the church.

What if life was so confusing and so difficult because we stand at the center of some cosmic conspiracy that divides every aspect of reality into theological categories of good and evil?

Biko Mandela Gray talks about race, radicalism, and religion, and Assata Shakur, with Atiya Husain Source

The Political Theology Network is hosting our sixth in-person conference, which will be held in Nashville, TN, from April 29 to May 2, 2027.

We asked Aaron Hollander and Sonia Velázquez to reflect on each other’s recent books.

Isaiah 5:1–7 opens as a love song and closes as a verdict, judging a vineyard not by its structural industry but by its ethical fruit.

When Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene compared Donald Trump to Jesus Christ, she wasn’t just being provocative.

We asked Aaron Hollander and Sonia Velázquez to reflect on each other’s recent books.

Scripture invites those who thirst today, such as those traversing the Sonoran desert in the hope of a liveable existence, to raise their voice in protest, to insist that their human value be recognized.

Narendra Modi’s strongman persona rests on a paradox: he must be both an ordinary man of the people and an extraordinary figure above ordinary politics.

We cannot let AI get the bomb.

The basic assumption of Jesus’s parable is not that one must act a certain way for the giver, but rather that it is good and right and beneficial for all to have a daily living wage, with no strings attached.