Nicholas Laccetti

Nicholas Laccetti is the Communications Coordinator for Kairos: The Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. He began his work at the Kairos Center as a Poverty Initiative fellow while a seminarian at Union in 2013. He is a New York-based writer and theologian whose writings have appeared in publications such as Killing the Buddha, Patheos, and the 2014 anthology Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms (NYU Press).

(A)theologies, ArchiveAugust 2, 2017

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

It is the poor and dispossessed as a class whose ethics and struggle must be centered if we are going to have a real moral revival — not the ethics of the “religious left” or of progressive Democrats.

Archive, Culture, StoriesFebruary 25, 2014

Hannibal Returns: Is TV’s Favorite Serial Killer the Devil Himself?

By Nicholas Laccetti

Hannibal has “beautiful” crime scenes, but it does not really romanticize suffering. Its version of Hannibal Lecter is a great aesthete, but the beautiful tableaux he creates are polluted, just as the elaborate dinners he prepares for his friends and acquaintances secretly involve the cooked organs of his victims.