# public theology (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover public theology. Page: Feed: --- ## [There is a Specter Haunting the Democratic Party](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/there-is-a-specter-haunting-the-democratic) _2026-08-19 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ And the surprising people who keep invoking it ## [Is the Bible Literal? Inerrant? True?](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/is-the-bible-literal-inerrant-true) _2026-08-17 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ GIVEAWAY! Book of the Month | August 2026: Inspired by Rachel Held Evans ## [Communion As The Way Forward](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/communion-as-the-way-forward) _2026-08-10 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ What the table teaches us about loving our neighbors. ## [What If Your Small Group Read the Bible Differently?](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/what-if-your-small-group-read-the) _2026-08-05 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ Introducing the Better Ways to Read the Bible Group Study! ## [The Post Evangelical Movement: Faith and Community Without Hate and Exclusion](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/the-post-evangelical-movement-faith) _2026-07-30 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ How our church became a beacon for those longing for Christian spirituality while denouncing the harm done by Christian Nationalism, LGBTQ+ exclusion, racism, and more ## [The Tears of Athena](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/the-tears-of-athena) _2026-07-29 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ Spoilers ahead... ## [I Can Do All Things Through A Verse Taken Out Of Context](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/i-can-do-all-things-through-a-verse) _2026-07-27 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ What to do when Philippians 4:13 stops working. ## [An Introduction to Healthy Boundaries](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-healthy-boundaries) _2026-07-19 · Amy Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ For the Christian who has been told to "forgive and forget" ## [How the Afterlife Stopped Evolving](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/how-the-afterlife-stopped-evolving) _2026-07-15 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ LATE IN HER CAREER, after she’d already become famous for her critique of the medicalization of death in America, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published a letter that she’d written to a child: a little boy with a terminal cancer diagnosis. ## [Win a copy of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/win-a-copy-of-jesus-and-john-wayne) _2026-07-12 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ July 2026 GIVEAWAY! ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bsRk3EavjIBi) _2026-07-12 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [The God of the Margins: What Jesus' Public Ministry Was Actually About](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/the-god-of-the-margins-what-jesus) _2026-07-09 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ See people, move toward them, & help meet their needs. ## [Loving America Enough to Tell the Truth](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/loving-america-enough-to-tell-the) _2026-07-04 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ The tension of 250 years of hard-fought progress and unfulfilled promises on July 4th ## [Why Does Optimization Feel So (Morally) Good?](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/why-does-optimization-feel-so-morally) _2026-07-01 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ YOU MIGHT BE morally disgusted by things like optimization culture and self-enhancement, rendering you morally immune to its effects. ## [I Love Jesus, and I Am Queer. And These Two Things Have Never Been in Conflict.](https://zachwlambert.substack.com/p/i-love-jesus-and-i-am-queer-and-these) _2026-06-30 · Zach W. Lambert · Public Theology with Zach W. Lambert_ A guest essay by Dr. Lana van Essen ## [Dispatches from a Place Built for People](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-a-place-built-for) _2026-06-24 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ IN THE CHICAGO O’HARE AIRPORT, in the midst of a 15-hour travel purgatory as we waited for our one-hour connecting flight back home to Louisville, my ten-year-old daughter told me that the toilets back home in America seemed angry and impatient. ## [In Which (Against the Pope, and Perhaps Unwisely) I Give Thanks for Posthumanism & Creaturely Life](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/in-which-against-the-pope-and-perhaps) _2026-06-03 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ I DON’T ACTUALLY intend to go up against the pope; my title is a little hyperbolic. ## [If You Have a Soul, Maybe Reading Will Save It](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/if-you-have-a-soul-maybe-reading) _2026-05-27 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ READING IS AN act shot through with various forms of power, but because it’s also so mundane these powers are easy to disregard. ## [Are Words Too Cheap Now?](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/are-words-too-cheap-now) _2026-04-29 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I started to actually think about language again. ## [Writing is Also Artificial](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/writing-is-also-artificial) _2026-04-22 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ Last week I was invited to speak at an event called Artifice: Questions of Language, Technology, and Devotion in Contemporary Classrooms hosted by a program called Teaching Religion in Public (TRiP) at Indiana University’s Center for Religion & the Human ## [Some Thoughts on a Humanities Revival (from a Pseudo-Humanist)](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-a-humanities-revival) _2026-04-15 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ THE LIFE OF THE MIND can feel a bit dismal these days, what with the disinvestment in education and the rise of generative AI. ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tZbjybQWpktQ) _2026-04-15 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Who Gets to Do Theology?](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/who-gets-to-do-theology) _2026-04-08 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ OVER THE PAST several weeks I’ve been writing about public theology: how theological (or quasi-theological) ideas appear in public, and do things in the polis. Meanwhile, to the dismay of many in the American public, people like Pete Hegseth have essentially been doing public theology as they ## [Don’t Travel in America Without Your Religious Passport](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/dont-travel-in-america-without-your) _2026-04-01 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ AFTER MY POST last week, on the thorny matter of public theology, I was drawn (especially by the comments) to think a bit more about the people who are most likely to be shut out of conversations about theology: people who aren’t religious. ## [Do the People Really Want Theology?](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/do-the-people-really-want-theology) _2026-03-25 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ THERE IS A New York Times op-ed that’s been making the rounds in my network, which is dense with people (like me) in the field of religious studies and theology. ## [Poetry and War](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/poetry-and-war) _2026-03-11 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ WAR IS IN THE PSYCHE these days, in the way that things like plastics get into the water. ## [Is There a Church-Shaped Hole on the American Left?](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/is-there-a-church-shaped-hole-on) _2026-02-25 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ I AM AN ACADEMIC, but I won’t pretend as if I believe that there’s anything moral about the structure of higher education in America today. ## [AI is Giving People a Place to Put Their Shame](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/ai-is-giving-people-a-place-to-put) _2026-02-11 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ I’VE FOUND MYSELF THINKING about shame lately. ## [Does Love Still Have Civic Power?](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/does-love-still-have-civic-power) _2026-02-04 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ AMERICANS MIGHT BE deeply loving people. ## [Maybe Your Solitude Isn’t Really About You](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/maybe-your-solitude-isnt-really-about) _2026-01-15 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ I FIND MYSELF annoyed by lamentations on the loss of solitude that I find on the Internet: claims that our dependence on social media, and the Internet itself, is eroding the capacity to spend time in solitude. ## [The Present is Thicker Than Ever](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/the-present-is-thicker-than-ever) _2025-12-31 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ I KNOW THAT for most people the new year is a time of resolution and forward momentum, but for me it’s always a time of recollection. ## [Chatbot Confessionals](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/chatbot-confessionals) _2025-12-17 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ AI CHATBOTS felt like an existential issue, to me, almost as soon as they were unleashed upon the public in 2022. ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CGLybAVG9Nq2) _2025-12-17 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [The Internet Priests of Ordinary Life](https://beatricemarovich.substack.com/p/the-internet-priests-of-ordinary) _2025-12-10 · Beatrice Marovich · Galactic Underworlds_ RECENTLY, IN CLASS, I was trying to explain to my college students what a trance state is.