Why justice without mercy fails

Each year, as College Chaplain at Worcester College at the University of Oxford, New Testament scholar N. T. Wright would meet first year undergraduates, welcoming them to the college and breaking the ice. Most were happy to meet him; but others said, โ€œYou wonโ€™t be seeing much of me; I donโ€™t believe in god.โ€ I …

Skills for radical hospitality

When first published, Miroslav Volfโ€™sย Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliationย (1996) was quickly recognised as a significant work of contemporary political theology and theological ethics.ย  A revised and expanded edition was released in 2019 by Abingdon Press, with a new preface, a 38-page epilogue reflecting on the work 25 years later, …