Doctrine of DiscoveryAbstract The Doctrine of Christian Discovery is a series of fifteenth-century papal bulls that served as the theological and legal justification for the colonization of the world and the enslavement of the Original Free Nations, starting first on...
Marginalia Review of BooksERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .
The Other JournalFor it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul. ―Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises You might approach the Jerusalem of the heart. —Scott Cairns,...
The Other JournalEach dilapidated in a different way— half-patched roof, porch sagging, two sideboards painted five different shades of purple to test out for a season a choice that may cause any number of arguments— or not, nothing in this town requiring...
The Other JournalWe want him gone— pretty boy fat with feasts and wine. Now he’s poor. Desert him! He chose his lot. As aging swine, we dare not share one crumb, least of all with him, whom we want gone. Split our scraps? God Almighty, it’s our home and up to us...
The Other JournalIn Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor. About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room. Lydda was near Joppa; so...
The Other JournalThe most jarring pages in The Black Reparations Project are filled almost exclusively with numbers.A table is headed with the dry title “Annual Total Debt Estimates and Cumulative Debt Estimates at 3% Interest, 1776–1860” and dull column labels...
The Other JournalPicture longing for an inaccessible, distant place. Call that longing farsickness. It is in form the same as homesickness, but it lacks the emphasis on memory. The homesick are exiles who remember somewhere they once were and would like to return...
The Other JournalThe bold claim of 1 Timothy 6:10 that “the love of money is a root of all evils” is the embarrassing relative in a family of famous biblical passages. Many ministers and theologians either pretend this passage does not exist or find innovative ways...
Religion in United States HistoryThe Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina invites applications for its inaugural Civil Rights Scholars Postdoctoral Research Program.