Tag: Poverty

  • The Poverty of Academic Theology

    Theology has always been a precarious discipline. This is in part because of its breathtaking audacity—to speak about God, no less! It is also because of its unavoidable dependence on cultural milieus, social institutions, and intellectual tools that it does not completely control. It arose out of the crucible of

  • Hunger, Poverty, and the Eucharist

    What to give to the person who has everything? This is something sometimes asked in jest. The Queen of Sheba may have asked herself that question when she was preparing to leave Solomon’s Jerusalem. Had she visited him again later, though, she might have better gifted him a slap across