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Jonathan Tran
Jonathan Tran teaches theological ethics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is author of The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory and Foucault and Theology.
What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?
Could it really be all the different things people say it is?
One person’s self-made hell
Recently I attended the trial of a woman accused of killing a college student in a hit and run.
God or basketball?
Which one has a greater hold on my heart? Let’s take a look.
Days of wanting
My family didn’t want to go to America at all; we left Vietnam on pain of death.
Anti-racism’s mission drift
Privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.
Thinking through abortion ethics in the classroom
What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than rights?
Giving disappointment its due
Some of our dreams won’t be fulfilled. While this may be a mercy, that’s no consolation.
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Looking to heaven without looking past earth
In the Christian imagination, the two rightly go together.