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  • Racial Justice
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
    • Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>
      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
    • Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
      Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
  • Politics/Law
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
    • As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
  • The End of Roe
    • What Role do Feelings Play in Conspiracy, Racism and Climate Denial? Welcome to <em>Phoning It In</em>, Episode 1
      What Role do Feelings Play in Conspiracy, Racism and Climate Denial? Welcome to Phoning It In, Episode 1
    • Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
      Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
    • Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
    • Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means

Marion Grau

Marion Grau is Professor of Systematic Theology and Missiology and the Director of the Egede Institute at the MF Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo, Norway. A native of Germany, she studied theology at the University of Tübingen and earned a Ph.D. in Theological and Religious Studies from Drew University. From 2001 through 2015 she taught at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Rethinking Theological Hermeneutics: Hermes, Trickster, Fool, Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Soteriology Beyond Imperialism, and Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption. Her current research projects include a monograph on the redevelopment of pilgrimage, the reimagination of Norwegian identity through the heritage of St. Olav.

(A)theologies, ArchiveNovember 25, 2016

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

Thanksgiving has always been a puzzle to me. As a German exchange student in 1993…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveAugust 22, 2016

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

The mainstream discourse in the West describes the “War on Terror” as a “geopolitical” mission….

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