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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“An ICE agent, like Adam and Eve, hides and seeks never to be found. He hides and thus avoids the ethical obligation summoned by standing before another, vulnerable to them as they are vulnerable to him.” – @crbernasol.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/online-colum...

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Why ICE agents hide their faces

Genesis 3 and Emmanuel Levinas can help us make sense of masked...

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Colton Bernasol @crbernasol.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

New with the Century: The politics of masking through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas www.christiancentury.org/online-colum...

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Why ICE agents hide their faces

Genesis 3 and Emmanuel Levinas can help us make sense of masked...

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Give a gift to ICS on Giving Tuesday! Your support means so much to our team and to the global church as we continue our work. We’re grateful for any and all donations; you truly make a difference! bit.ly/GIVEICS #GivingTuesday

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

REMINDER: Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19! bit.ly/ICSHOPE

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

CALL FOR ART, ESSAYS, CREATIVE WRITING, + MORE! ICS is excited to announce our very first digital and print magazine. Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19 ➡️ bit.ly/ICSHOPE #ChristianSocialism #Art #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Writers #Poets #TheBias #Hope

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Colton Bernasol @crbernasol.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social on prayer, protest, and my dissatisfaction with much of how prayer is framed in relationship to politics these days.

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

For-profit immigrant camps. Sanctuary churches under threat. Deportations without trial. Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf makes the case: now is the time for people of faith to resist. 📖 Now live! Read in The Bias Magazine, a premier voice of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/09/06/t...

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The Moral Case for the Sanctuary Movement - Institute for Christian Socialism

Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf confronts Trump’s deportation regime by embracing the sanctuary movement as a faithful stand against state violence and moral injury.

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

All this, centuries before Marx. What might their example say to us about community and economics today? #ChristianSocialism #TheBias

Sources are listed for the claim. There are two sources: Arvanitidis, P. & Sofia's, C. 2023. 'The Byzantine monastery as a Commons', Revisit de History Industrial, 33 (89): 107-142. Ponzetti, J. 2014. 'Christian monasticism and sustainable communal life', International Journal of Community Diversity, 13 (1): 1-12.

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

“Mass mobilization seriously undermines the status quo. Perhaps this is why Trump called in the National Guard and Marines in California, despite objections from local government.” – @crbernasol.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...

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Rehearsing for the revolution

The No Kings protests made their politics real to everyone who watched—including the...

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Colton Bernasol @crbernasol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social, in which I write about No Kings, John Berger (my fav), mass mobilization, and the need for other organizing practices (credit to my activist friend-comrades for teaching me their ways). www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...

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Rehearsing for the revolution

The No Kings protests made their politics real to everyone who watched—including the...

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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

if you preorder now and send me a jpg of the receipt + your email address (dm is fine), you will get: --a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so --an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)

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Colton Bernasol @crbernasol.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A bit late on sharing this here. But I wrote a piece on framing liberation in terms of struggle, and I was deeply inspired by the Theology of Struggle movement from the Philippines in thinking along these lines. Grateful to @christiancentury.bsky.social for letting me write about it.

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When the language of liberation is not enough

I read Edicio De La Torre and other Filipino thinkers for wisdom on the long-term nature of fighting for change.

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“A seminary for the people would imagine its work, and the cultivation of its students’ scholarly and pastoral vocations, in terms of what it owes to the public in which it is situated.” – @crbernasol.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/tru...

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Trump’s agenda hasn’t attacked religious schools and seminaries—yet

Liberation theologian Ignacio Ellacuría didn’t leave us a blueprint for resistance, but he speaks to times like...

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Rather than justice, David True and Tom James call for the revolutionary politics of love and desire as the grounds for transformative, radical, change. Read more here: christiansocialism.com/2025/02/25/a...

structures is the power of majorities. Effective political action must therefore learn how to construct and mobilize political majorities with shared concerns. Prophetically, we are compelled to press beyond narrowly conceived identities because love for the common resists the imposition and policing of rigid boundaries. Following this prophetic tradition, West and Söelle help us envision what forms an emancipatory political desire might look like on a mass scale, connected with and yet distinct from the interests engendered by identity. Accordingly, for both, class conflict is central, and their interpretations of Christian faith and the political agency it supports are connected with the interests of the vast majority, the demos as a whole.
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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Gary Dorrien’s new memoir is a meditative and unhurried account of the people, ideas, and history that influenced a life of deep scholarship and witness charged with the convictions that Christianity at its best activates a life of radical political commitment. christiansocialism.com/2025/01/27/t...

The Radical Witness of Gary Dorrien's Left-Intellectual LIfe by Matthew McManus

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A humble appeal to theologians and Christian media: Christians around the world are organizing for debt justice during the Jubilee Year. They'll do it with or without the help of theologians and journalists, but it's a unique opportunity to show how valuable these fields are for Christian action.

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Andrew Krinks @andrewkrinks.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

If you’re in Chicago on Thursday, Jan 9, join me @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social at 7pm for a book talk + conversation with Rev. Dr. Christophe Ringer + Rev. Jason Lydon on the religion of criminalization + the religion of abolition. Books + posters will be available. Let your Chicago people know!

Flyer reading: "White Property, Black Trespass: A Book Talk on the Religion of Criminalization & the Religion of Abolition. Andrew Krinks with Christophe Ringer & Jason Lydon. Pilsen Community Books. January 9. 7:00 PM"

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 31/12/2024

Woody Guthrie’s New Years Resolutions from 1943.

1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes — look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed cloths often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Dont get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money
22. Save dough
23. Have company but dont waste time
24. Send Mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war — beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love Pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

For more than 2,000 years, the idea of “selling your soul” has generated a moral shock in the Western world. Only by recognizing the history of “selling your soul” can we understand why an anti-religious thinker like Marx would end up quoting from Genesis www.christiansocialism.com/2024/12/16/h...

How Selling your Soul went secular by Ian Afflerbach

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Joseph Bernasol @josephbernasol.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

That a song can capture a social moment never ceases to amaze me. vm.tiktok.com/ZNeTBs6nm/

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Rudy Macaj looks at the religious influences shaping the Democratic Farm Labor Party and progressive politics in the Midwest. www.christiansocialism.com/2024/12/03/t...

The Democratic Farmer-Labor Party's Enduring Lessons for Contemporary Politics by Rudy Macaj

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Colton Bernasol @crbernasol.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"... in so far as socialism in this sense means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy, socialism is the symbol of the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty." - J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (1973)

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 26/11/2024

For this week's Reconstruct, Josiah R. Daniels talks with Andrew Wilkes, co-chair of the board for the Institute for Christian Socialism, on wanting Christians to collectively push the horizon of what’s possible.

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Andrew Wilkes Is Convinced That the Gospel and Socialism Go Together

Wilkes, co-chair of the board for the Institute for Christian Socialism, wants Christians to collectively push the horizon of what’s possible.

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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We've made a starter pack for Christian Leftists (broadly defined). Please feel free to reach out if you want your name added! go.bsky.app/KPzFXzf

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Colton Bernasol @crbernasol.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

@smashmammon.bsky.social asked me to introduce myself. Hello! I'm the managing editor for The Bias Magazine. I'm based in Chicagoland -- which is also where I grew up :) Pitch me!

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