A reception history of James Baldwin’s peculiar use of Scripture concerning racial justice. It is written and submitted amidst the George Floyd #BLM protests. From the volume, Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation in the Bible, ed. Jin Young Choi and Gregory L. Cuellar, Routledge 2023.

This paper reviews Ari Aster’s two full-length feature films, Hereditary and Midsommar, by examining its use of its representations of “the family” in its narrative relationship with neoliberal ideology. While Hereditary fits with recent trends in gender and anti/oedipal relations within the horror genre, Midsommar reimagines an “othe…[Read more]

This paper argues that the operative force in Luke’s parable of the Rich Fool is negativity. Moreover, negativity is as common in Lukan parables as status reversals. As the parable warns against securing the future, this paper reads Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive to show how negativity, towards reproductive fut…[Read more]

Frederick Douglass appeals to Acts 17:26 in his famous letter, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” He intends to gain legitimacy to his argument by citing the beliefs of his opponents, when he says, “You profess to believe ‘that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth.'” This paper will look at…[Read more]