Institute for Christian Socialism

Who holds the power in Biden’s administration? So far, every indication we have suggests that business is still calling the shots in Washington—and they fear a working class revolt.

To love our neighbors as Jesus commanded, we must have some neighbors to love. But capitalism constantly erodes the social bonds necessary for love. How do Christians and Marxists respond?

Despite Nietzsche’s disgust with Christianity and its political inheritance, democracy, modern-day conservatives like Jordan Peterson draw heavily on Nietzschean tropes. Understanding Nietzche’s anti-egalitarian philosophy shows us why.

Uniting the Left through democratic socialism was a storied, frustrated, long-running dream of American socialists. Michael Harrington kept it alive before Bernie Sanders and the ravages of neoliberalism dramatically revived it.

This Spring, the Institute for Christian Socialism and the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice explored new imaginations and practical strategies for building God’s cooperative commonwealth.

To understand the emotionally thrilling spectacle of fascism, it is crucial to understand precisely how conspiratorial propaganda worked under historic fascist regimes, and how it continues to work today.

Anti-Asian prejudice stems from historic anxieties about Christian America’s demise at the hands of foreign labor, birthed long before a mendacious real estate developer exploited them to win the presidency.

Socialists must always side with colonized people when their struggle for freedom. As Paulo Freire said, “never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence?”