The CooperativeThe ultimate example for the prioritizing of the personal over the political in the David-Jonathan material is Jonathan, who chooses love over power. The text goes on to suggest that such an ordering of priorities can save lives, bestow dignity...
The privileging of a political or theological-political reading of Jonathan’s love over and against a personal and potentially erotic and/or sexual reading arguably has less to do with the text itself and more to do with the imposition of...
Such reflections ought to unsettle the assumption that biblical views on sexual practice (which are, in any case, multiple and contradictory) are identical to views espoused by modern religious readers, and they ought to raise serious questions...
admin'What 1 Corinthians 12 insists is that we cannot give ourselves to the work of grace apart from giving ourselves to a community that gathers in defiance of the desire for authority and its associated virtues—decency, dignity, and honor.'
'It seems that our female nurses are almost forced to make a choice between their career and their family and I cannot help but wonder how many male nurses are required to make such a choice'
factory workers are treated like machines. They are counted, rather than named. They are trained with documents that read like software programs, under the assumption that sufficient training will create high quality, repeatable products. This is...
'When you control the narrative, the context, the output, and what you are prepared to provide and not provide it has left the realm of service. You have a product...'
Conversations that ask difficult questions about the good in terms of ethics and morality, personal and social wellbeing require reflective consideration over time. They are anathema to models that require the minimisation of inputs in order to...
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
Hannah Arendt