• Ideology in Biology: Theism Meets Atheism in the Case of Abiogenesis 

  Ruffinengo, Marc; Walsh, Anthony (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Abiogenesis is the proposed process through which inanimate matter eventually led to life on earth. As a research area, the issue is certainly loaded with fodder for debate and philosophical and ideological disagreement ...

• The Incompatibility of Christianity with Racism and Capitalism 

  Kappadakunnel, Matt (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

• Authentic Contextualization and Church Growth: The Case of Catholicism in Malawi 1889–2000 

  Dambula, Chrispin (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Malawian culture was denunciated and demonized as irrational and unbiblical by the early Catholic missionaries from the West. However, this negative attitude toward Malawian culture largely succeeded in hindering Catholic ...

• On the Profit of Protestant Wives 

  Barone, Dennis (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

• The American Church and the Americans with Disabilities Act 

  Payne, Johnny (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

• From the Editor’s Desk: Looking Forward to the Next Twenty Years 

  Smith, Zachary B. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

• Introduction 

  Simkins, Ronald A. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

• The New Politics of Religious Freedom: Humanitarian Aid and Sanctuary as Religious Mandates 

  Alexander, Laura E. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Interreligious organizations that provide aid to immigrants are changing the way scholars and the public understand religious freedom in the United States. Members of these organizations draw on laws and ideals of free ...

• From Word to Flesh: Embodied Racism and the New Politics 

  Rump, Jacob (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Drawing on resources from the philosophical tradition of phenomenology and putting them into dialogue with an important theme in Christian theology, I argue that there is a distinctly non-discursive, embodied form of racism ...

• Dignity and Freedom in the Classroom: A Catholic Framework for Navigating Trumpism 

  Mattson, Kristin; Reed-Bouley, Jennifer (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  The politics of Trumpism have engendered new norms for public discourse, which affect teaching and learning in higher education. This essay examines resources in Catholic higher education for providing a framework to ...

• An Interpretive Model of Privileged Contempt: Understanding Disdain Toward Those of Lower Status, from Ancient Israel to the New American Politics 

  Coomber, Matthew J. M. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Biblical studies has made strides in drawing meaningful connections between systemic poverty in the biblical worlds and today. However, perhaps just as important as connecting the tools and effects of these systems is ...

• New Politics, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and LGBT Legislation: A Critical Analysis 

  Todd A., Salzman; Lawler, Michael G. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Our focus in this essay is on the divisions the new politics promotes surrounding sex and sexualities and how the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is fostering these divisions legally, theological-ant ...

• U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Discussion of President Obama vs. President Trump, 2014–2019 

  Danielsen, Sabrina; Burke, Emily E.; DiLeo, Daniel R. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Scholars have noted shared priorities and organizational ties between American Catholic leadership and the Republican Party arising since the 1970s and continuing today. Does American Catholic leadership withhold clear ...

• Catholic Social Teaching, Laudato Sí, and the Green New Deal 

  Miller, Richard W. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  The Green New Deal (GND) is a very ambitious mission statement for a just transition to a low carbon economy whose starting point was not perceived political possibility but the boundaries of the climate system, for a ...

• From the “Culture of Death” to the “Crisis of Liberalism”: Recent Shifts in Catholic Politics 

  McCabe, Kevin P. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  This article identifies and assesses some of the shifts that have occurred in conservative Catholic politics in the United States over the last twenty years. For much of the late 1990s and early 2000s, a politics focused ...

• Countering the Politics of Fear: Insights from the Life & Theology of Uganda’s John Mary Waliggo 

  Carney, J.J. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  This article introduces Fr. John Mary Waliggo (1942–2008), the foremost Catholic public intellectual in post-colonial Uganda. In his personal life, priestly ministry, and extensive government work, Waliggo built a public ...

• Growing Age and Education Gaps? The Evolution of Partisan Vote Choice among Religious Voters in the U.S., 2008–2018 

  Hansen, Eric R.; Witmer, Richard C. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Over the last three decades, two divergent trends help to explain voter support for the two political parties. Voter support for each party by religious affiliation has remained remarkably stable. In contrast, coalitions ...

• Unholy Economics and Environmental Impacts: Reading Revelation’s Great Whore in the Climate Crisis 

  Hall, Crystal L. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  Wealth inequality and climate disruption are defining issues of our time. This article addresses ways in which dispensationalist interpretations of the book of Revelation shape decision making on these issues in the age ...

• Beyond Western Civilization: Toward the Recentering of Catholic Politics 

  Rober, Daniel A. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2021)

  A number of Catholic political movements have developed in recent decades contesting Catholic accommodations with political liberalism since World War II, particularly in the areas of human rights and religious liberty. ...

• Panpsychism, Neutral Monism, And the Need for a New Synthesis 

  LeWarne, Christopher (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2020)

  Introduction|In recent debate surrounding theory of mind, there seems to be a significant concern, for some even a disdain, regarding mainstream physicalism. This is the thesis that the entities described by physics make ...

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