Would Jesus support health care reform? Interview with Marcia Pally By John Blake, CNN June 28, 2012 CNN) – He was a healer, a provider of universal health care, a man of compassion who treated those with preexisting medical conditions.We […]
The Religious Re-direct: Religions and elections in America By Marcia Pally Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 30, 2010 For over a century, religiosity in America has been greater, more committed, and more populist than in any other industrialized country. Though today, […]
Religion as practical scapegoat: A response from relational theology By Marcia Pally Presented at the German Federal Cultural Foundation Conference: “Trial of Faith – On Religion and Growth,” Cologne June 12-14, 2015. https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/en/magazine/magazine_24/the_practical_scapegoat.html Looking at European debates about religion, one […]
Muslims, Evangelicals and the countering of prejudice: A conversation with Prof. Marcia Pally and Prof. Mustapha Tlili, New York University By Chantal Bax, April 2012 Muslims and Evangelicals – one may not think that these two groups have much in […]
Asymmetric Warfare: The First Three Thousand Years By Marcia Pally · Thursday, April 27, 2017 The thoughts below were first presented at the 2017 Telos Paul Piccone Institute conference, “Asymmetrical Warfare: The Centrality of the Political to the Strategic.” On the perhaps naïve […]
Worried about the 2020 election? Check out my article on: Why Is Populism Persuasive, published in Political Theology
David Brooks, in his New York Times column, discusses Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality
Commonwealth and Covenant. This 2016 volume applies intellectual history, philosophy, and theologies of relationality (Christian and Jewish) to develop a framework for economic and political policy. A “magisterial study of relationality in Western theology and culture”—William Storrar, Center for Theological […]
Mimesis and Sacrifice (Ed., 2019): this edited volume by an inter-disciplinary and international groups of scholars looks at the ethics of how notions of sacrifice are used in contemporary life, from the military and business to gender relation and politics. […]
The New Evangelicals Polarized politics and religious-based terrorism have raised the question; is deep religious belief antithetical to liberal democracy? This book explores America’s evangelical communities who have left the Right for a worldview and practices where religious life and liberal […]