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Mac Loftin
Mac Loftin is a PhD candidate in theology at Harvard University, where he studies the relationship between Christian theology and political thought.
The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.
The gender phantasm
Judith Butler seeks to understand how and why the word gender has taken on such apocalyptic proportions, including among Christians.
Why do you want to see?
The Zone of Interest interrogates the desire to bear witness that animates the Holocaust movie as a genre.
A better response to the decline of the Christian West
Some fight to preserve what is fading. Michel de Certeau shows how this is an enormous theological error.
Prayer as mourning, mourning as prayer
In Jon Fosse’s Septology, a tragic vision of faith shines with a luminous darkness.
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