The Bias provides regular digital content that establishes the voice and perspectives of the Christian Left.
Matt McManus reviews the colossal new book by philosopher Charles Taylor, "Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment," a messy and beautiful exploration of the attempt made by modern poets to find meaning amidst the modern world.
Ben Dormus remembers the late Jane McAlevey and what her "whole-worker" organizing methods can teach the church.
Amir Marshi reflects on the history of Christian Zionism, its erasure of the Palestinian people, and complicity in the ongoing Nakba.
Ben Dormus remembers the late Jane McAlevey and what her “whole-worker” organizing methods can teach the church.
Amir Marshi reflects on the history of Christian Zionism, its erasure of the Palestinian people, and complicity in the ongoing Nakba.
Working to dismantle homophobia and transphobia and build Christian communities fully committed to queer political movements.
Kendall Gunter reviews Lee Edelman’s Bad Education, asking if queer theology provides a better response for how to love the world.
Christine Emba’s recent book attempts to diagnose the malaise of contemporary sex culture. But her persistent avoidance of queer experience and theory, as well as an insufficient analysis of capitalism, thwarts her attempt at a new sexual ethic beyond consent.
A new book from the creators of the Bad Gays podcast explores the morally problematic lives of queer people from ancient to modern times. What unites these figures isn’t their “transgressiveness” but their persistent refusal of solidarity.
Colton Bernasol interviews author and philosopher Matt McManus on the nature, origins, and proponents of right-wing political thinking.
Gary Dorrien unpacks the formation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s full-orbed Christian socialism and the role it played in his activism and the Black freedom movement.
Matt McManus analyzes philosopher Charles Taylor’s account of modernity—unpacking both the contributions and limits of Taylor’s work.
Klaus Yoder profiles Law and Order Catholicism and points towards a non-dualistic vision of faith and safety.
Christopher Cruz recounts the history of the Young Lords and how their activism calls Christians to use our political power for the many.
Matt McManus reviews Patrick Deneen’s Regime Change and critiques the autocratic and aristocratic postliberal future it offers.
Through analysis and critique of right-wing Christians, identifying how to equip and empower anti-fascist and liberatory forms of faith.
Adrian Vermeule’s new book was not written to persuade hostile readers, but to provide ammunition for his allies. It gives us a peek under the hood of postliberalism—and the contents are both shoddy and dangerous.
Right-wing evangelicals have played a huge role in the perpetuation of the vast chasm between the rich and poor, conflating Christianity with selfish libertarianism and cult-like support for the Republican Party.
GiveSendGo isn’t just another far right Kickstarter clone. It’s an expression of long-established Christian financial frameworks.
Christine Emba’s recent book attempts to diagnose the malaise of contemporary sex culture. But her persistent avoidance of queer experience and theory, as well as an insufficient analysis of capitalism, thwarts her attempt at a new sexual ethic beyond consent.
Milton Friedman’s ideas continue to exercise a profound influence on our political and economic imagination. On the sixtieth anniversary of Capitalism and Freedom, Adam Kotsko explores the uncanny relationship between Friedman’s neoliberalism and Christian theology.
Frederick Douglass’ famous Independence Day address took a rhetorical scalpel to the lofty self-image and founding texts of America. With political and religious fervor, he drove home the contradiction between republican values and chattel slavery.
In this exhausted political moment, a reactionary antipolitics is ascendent — one that looks to “traditional” aesthetic and religious pursuits as an antidote to the spiritual dead-end of conventional “woke” liberalism and free-market conservatism.
From gendered exclusions to the explicitly carceral capitalism of sharecropping, the predator class squeezed profit from precarity. It is one lesson they have not forgotten despite their erasure of slavery and its afterlives from public memory.
A new book from the creators of the Bad Gays podcast explores the morally problematic lives of queer people from ancient to modern times. What unites these figures isn’t their “transgressiveness” but their persistent refusal of solidarity.
