Slavoj Žižek translated this quote this way:
“The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.”
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Slavoj Žižek translated this quote this way:
“The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.”
In the 1930s, while imprisoned, Antonio Gramsci wrote
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”
apnews.com/article/egyp... DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia
There will be a panel on practical ways to support migrants and resist xenophobic discourse and policies in this critical moment. There are opportunities for you to submit a proposal to lead a workshop. The most important part is to create a space for solidarity, empowerment, and action.
Come join us this fall at Union Presbyterian Seminary on the Richmond campus for a conference on migration. Prof JanJan Lin and Rev Isaac Villegas will be the keynote speakers.
I look forward to giving a talk at this conference on: portraying Pharaoh as Satan in allegorical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. I will be more excited when the paper is ready 🤣.
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So happy to find @safwatmarzouk.bsky.social 's contribution to Joshua on WorkingPreacher.org as I was rounding out my sermon
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Have you ever wondered why many artistic representations of Moses show two horns painted or sculpted on his forehead?
If you're preaching this coming Sunday, I wrote the commentary on Exodus 34:29-35 for the Working Preacher.
www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries...
Resist.
Thank you for this wonderful poem, @lorybrantz
I truly hope that Syria, which paid the heftiest price in the Arab Spring, will be a source of hope for a better future for all of its people and other dreamers in the region.
Some Egyptians are cautioning their Syrian friends about the future given where things went after 2011 across the region.
perhaps it's because these moments do not last long and because the future is unknown that the people of Syria should celebrate the fall of the dictators who have oppressed them!
I truly hope that Syria, which paid the heftiest price in the Arab Spring, will be a source of hope for a better future for all of its people and other dreamers in the region.
But perhaps it's because these moments do not last long and because the future is unknown that the people of Syria should celebrate the fall of the dictators who have oppressed them!
We should have outdoor presentations at #sblaar24
Seems relevant!
I do that by looking into the character of Joseph whose hybrid identity moves beyond the binary of us vs them, oppressed vs oppressor, with the hope of finding justice and reconciliation.
In this essay I take it a bit further by looking into how dealing with the other without begins with embracing the other within.
Womanist hermeneutics have already raised questions about this notion when they centered the story of Hagar the Egyptian.
Glad to see this essay out. One of the places where I problematize the essentialization of Egypt in the Hebrew Bible. This time, I focused more on the representation of Egypt in liberation theologies.