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1. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
KC Choi, MT Dávila

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2. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Kelly Brown Douglas

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This essay addresses what is at the foundation of the US’s seemingly inherent “resistance” to racial justice and hence to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. This resistance is rooted in a moral imaginary corrupted by an epistemological gaze defined by whiteness and informed by anti-Blackness. For religious scholars, this means that we must adopt a preferential option for the knowledge and voices of those who historically have been granted little or no epistemic authority within our disciplines.
3. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Lincoln Rice

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Kelly Brown Douglas offered two countermeasures to aid ethicists in expanding the moral imaginary of a people: (1) examine critically the work of interlocutors and (2) change our gaze to those voices that have been traditionally refused epistemic authority. This essay explores concrete examples of these countermeasures in theological scholarship.

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4. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Emily Dumler-Winckler Orcid-ID

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The movements for prison and police abolition today are not only analogous to but extensions of antebellum and postbellum movements for the abolition of slavery and segregation. Dreams of transformative justice, resistance to government, and the creation of alternative practices have been vital to abolitionist efforts to dismantle various US anarchies. This essay examines the political and theological debates of antebellum abolitionists about the US government, the Constitution and law more broadly, civil disobedience, anarchy, and revolution, arguing that these remain vital debates for abolitionists today.
5. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Joi R. Orr

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This paper presents an ethnographic study of The Black Church Food Security Network. The Network is a collective of churches, growers, and farmer’s markets creating an alternative church-to-table food distribution system. The Network is motivated by the radical imagination, a hope that defines liberation as Black communities reconnected to land. This study encourages scholars to reclaim the radical imagination of land-centered resistance movements like the Black Church Food Security Network. By doing so, ethicists are empowered to generate revolutionary social imaginaries that refuse the violences of racial capitalism and colonial imaginations.
6. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Nichole M. Flores

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Miguel A. De La Torre rejects hope as the ethical basis for a politically effective and truly liberative form of solidarity. Kelly Brown Douglas, on the other hand, articulates a critical retrieval of hope emphasizing the interpretive relationship between the cross, the lynching tree, and the resurrection. Reading De La Torre and Douglas’s works through Natalie Carnes’s theological aesthetics suggests that their respective works can be engaged as “iconoclasms of fidelity,” or the salutary breaking of idolatrous images toward recovering faithful ones. Examining #SprayTheirNames murals that were created in response to state violence against Black people in the United States, I argue that Carnes’s aesthetics framework holds the violence of the crucifixion and promise of resurrection in visual tension, thus decrying violent oppression while offering a beautiful and dangerous memory that catalyzes hope-filled movement in defense of Black lives.
7. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Russell P. Johnson

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Christian witness needs to tell a story in which people can recognize themselves, including political opponents and those who currently benefit from social injustice. It is this capacity to imagine a role for the enemy within the beloved community that separates Christian protest from the politics of resentment. This constructive component of activism makes the critical edge credible, and this is not just a matter of messaging but of theological integrity. A twofold narrative approach, informed by the tradition of nonviolent direct action, offers a way for opponents to take steps to address present injustices without their participation in these injustices having the last word about them.
8. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Mary Nickel

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According to Kristen Deede Johnson, Augustinian theology provides resources for overcoming debates about the consolidation or protection of difference in plural society. Johnson’s Augustine invites us to unite with others in loving and humble interactions with difference. I seek to further concretize the kind of communication that Johnson’s theology entails, putting it in conversation with Iris Marion Young’s theory of “communicative democracy.” Drawing on Willie James Jennings’s interpretive work on Pentecost in his magisterial commentary on Acts, I trace in the event of Pentecost a paradigm for communication between divergent communities that respects difference and underscores possibilities for union. The community born at Pentecost is comprised of divergent constituencies, and yet is nevertheless integrated by communicative practices. The paper invites reflection on how divinely granted visions might be translated into conversations that facilitate what Jennings calls “joining.”
9. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Erin Dufault-Hunter

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Many well-meaning “white” people adopt an antiracist agenda because we believe it provides the antidote to pernicious racialized inequity in the United States. Ironically, this schema maintains racism, strengthens whiteness as the measure of humanity, and inoculates us against imagining any alternative to racism’s logic. I argue that we can break the fetters of racism by framing whiteness as a principality and power. Perceived as a demonic force rather than an “identity,” we can perceive the goals of whiteness as well as the spirituality that fuels it—and cast it out. We are then freed to “reinvent the future,” emancipated from racialized politics and its violence.
10. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
James W. Haring Orcid-ID

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In 2020, Amy-Jill Levine challenged the Society of Christian Ethics to take Christian privilege seriously. But Christian ethicists generally neglect Christian privilege as a distinct type. One site for Christian privilege is the ideal of authenticity, which grew from the idea that Christianity represents love, interiority, and spirituality (spirit), while Judaism represents legalism, exteriority, and materiality (letter). By prioritizing “spirit” over “letter,” an isolated ethic of authenticity can detach moral identity from history, race, community, land, and other seemingly extrinsic factors. I draw on Willie James Jennings and Daniel Boyarin to illustrate authenticity’s exclusionary potential and Moses Mendelssohn to construct a more inclusive ideal.
11. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Eunil David Cho, Wonchul Shin Orcid-ID

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By examining the stories of Asian American Dreamers, or Asian American young adults with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, this essay investigates how these undocumented young adults cultivate virtuous imagination to transcend the violence of uncertainty and radically imagine new paths toward flourishing. The aversive state of structural uncertainty leads them to experience narrative foreclosure and the violent disruption of the pursuit of the good life. This essay subsequently proposes two kinds of stories as moral resources for empowering Asian American Dreamers to cultivate imaginative excellence in order to dream new paths toward flourishing and to resist the toxic internalization of the “model minority” myth: (1) religious stories demonstrating their steadfast commitment to God’s goodness and (2) stories of solidarity co-authored with their suffering neighbors.

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12. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Jackson Nii Sabaah Adamah

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13. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Jeffrey A. Schooley

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14. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Andrew Blosser Orcid-ID

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15. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Marc V. Rugani Orcid-ID

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16. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Stephanie Ann Puen Orcid-ID

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17. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Ryan Andrew Newson

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18. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF

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19. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
Kevin Lazarus

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20. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 2
April M. Mack

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