Postmodern Theory and liberalism do not merely exist in tension: they are almost directly at odds with one another. Liberalism sees knowledge as something we can learn about reality, more or less objectively; Theory sees knowledges as completely created by humans—stories we tell ourselves, largely in the unwitting service of maintaining our own soc

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I want us to better understand our position in the world relative to religion, particularly how our steadfast (if misguided) belief in secularism feeds into the idea of Western supremacy.

Religion—whether we like it or not, whether we envision ourselves as secular or not—informs how most of us view the complicated issues of our time, including race, gender, sexuality, and so forth. In acknowledging its complexity, we should also begin to understand that essentialist statements about religion will always fall short of accuracy.

The Latin Christian story has been so interested in forensic justification—how we are saved through the forgiveness of our sins and how these sins are atoned for—that we find transformation of being strange. Because of our obsession with forensic justification, we’ve allowed ontology to seep out of our perception of faith, giving Secular 3 the grou

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