Neil Elliott

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CURRICULUM VITAE

New Testament scholar and teacher / Episcopal priest / writer / editor

EDUCATION and ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

Certificate in Advanced Theological Study, Seabury Western Seminary 2002 Ph.D. in Biblical Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary 1989 M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary 1983 B.A., magna cum laude, Psychology, Religion, Pepperdine University 1978

Elected member, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas; member, Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars, CBA, SBL Member of steering committees of the SBL Paul and Politics Group and Poverty in the Biblical World Consultation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Religious and Theological Publishing currently Acquiring Editor in Biblical Studies, Fortress Press, Minneapolis June 2005–present Responsible for publishing 30 academic books in biblical studies each year, including the Hermeneia commentary series; with the editorial team, created the Radix initiative (“roots of change”), Paul in Critical Contexts series, Soundings series, the Fortress Commentary on the Bible, The Peoples’ Bible and Peoples’ Companion to the Bible, and the online preaching resource www.NewProclamation.com

Teaching in Biblical and Religious Studies currently Community Faculty, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul Fall 2000–present Undergraduate courses in Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and American Civil Religion

Adjunct Faculty, United Theological Seminary, New Brighton Fall 1999–2014 Graduate courses including New Testament Texts in Context; Koine Greek; Varieties of Hope in Early Christianity; Hope, Justice, and Liberation in Paul’s Theology

Member, Board of Kaleo Center (for Public Ministry) at United 2016 — Adjunct instructor, Macalester College, St. Paul Spring 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009 Occasional undergraduate courses in New Testament, Early Christianity

Adjunct instructor, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 1994; 1996; 2012 Occasional undergraduate and graduate (M.A.) course in New Testament

Associate Professor, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul (non-tenure track) 1989–1999 Undergraduate and M.A. courses in Theology, Scripture, New Testament, Early Church History, World Religions. Co-developed and co-piloted core course “The Global Search for Justice” (“Central America and Caribbean” and “Women’s Work in Global Perspective”); led J-term course, “The Bible in Different Reading Communities,” in Israel and the West Bank; led faculty training seminars on moral development, justice education, and Roman Catholic social thought.

Instructor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Spring 1988–Fall 1989 Undergraduate courses: Introduction to Religion; World Religions

Continuing Education in Teaching

Training in Developing Online Learning Communities, Metropolitan State University 2011 Certificate in Multicultural Education, Metropolitan State University 2005 Certificate in Global Education, Spelman College 1996 Certificate, Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem 1991

Ordained Ministry

Ordained to the Episcopal priesthood, Diocese of Minnesota December 2002

Scholar in Residence and Assisting Priest (part-time), January 2005–January 2012 Mission of St. Paul’s on the Hill, St. Paul

Chaplain, University Episcopal Center July 2002–June 2005 Priest-in-charge for an Episcopal campus ministry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, responsible for worship, fundraising, and educational and advocacy programming in cooperation with the Interfaith Campus Coalition (ICC). (Following the cessation of all Diocesan funding, the ministry of the UEC now continues as a shared volunteer ministry with student peer leadership). Received, with ICC peers, the University GLBT Programs Office Breaking the Silence Award.

Diaconal service, La Misión Santo Niño Jesús, St. Paul January–June 2002

Member of the Board of Examining Chaplains 2002–13 Participant in Theology Position Paper on Mission for the Bishop’s Committee 2006–7 on Mission Strategy Diocesan liaison to the Twin Cities Religion and Labor Network 2002–05 Work in Global Development and Advocacy

Development Director, then Associate Director, The Lambi Fund of Haiti Sept. 2000–Sept. 2001 Executive and fundraising responsibilities for an NGO supporting community- based organizing among Haitian agricultural cooperatives (www.lambifund.org); responsibility for a $500,000 annual budget; prepared print materials, arranged speaking engagements for staff and board, and coordinated with Haitian staff

Participant, Human Rights investigative delegation to Haiti Summer 1995

Organizer and media spokesman, the Haiti Justice Committee, St. Paul 1993–1994

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Bodies of Christ: A Materialist Theology of the New Testament. Under contract with Equinox Press, London.

With Mark Reasoner, Documents and Images for the Study of Paul. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010.

The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire. Paul in Critical Contexts series. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.

With Richard Carlson, Jeanne Moessner, and L. K. Hogan, New Proclamation: Pentecost, Series B, 2003-4. Ed. David B. Lott. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.

With Linda Maloney and Richard Senn, New Proclamation: Pentecost, Series B, 1999-2000. Ed. David B. Lott. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000.

Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle. Maryknoll and Sheffield: Orbis and Sheffield Academic Press, 1994; Minneapolis: Fortress Press edition, 2005. Portuguese transl. São Paolo: Paulus, 1997. Italian trans. Bologna: Editrice Missionaria Italiana, 2005. Spanish and Korean translations in process.

The Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and Strategy and Paul’s “Debate with Judaism.” JSNTSup 45. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990. Minneapolis: Fortress Press edition, 2007.

Essays

Forthcoming

“Political Theology and the New Testament.” In Political Theology. Ed. Rafael Rodríguez. Volume in development.

“The Rhetoric of Romans.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric of the New Testament. Ed. Mark Given. Volume in development. “Dark Matter: The Return of the Repressed in New Testament Studies.” In Marxism and New Testament Studies. Ed. Robert Myles. Volume in development.

“The Jewish Paul as a Third Way in Pauline Studies.” In Tracking the Jewish Paul. Ed. Anders Runesson and Magnus Zetterholm. Volume in development.

“Sanders's Paul and Palestinian Judaism, Forty Years Later.” In a special edition of Biblical Theology. Ed. Paula Fredriksen. In development.

“The Task of a Materialist New Testament Theology.” In Constructing the Economics of Early Christianity. Ed. Jeremy Punt and Fernando F. Segovia. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, forthcoming.

“Utopian Vision in Paul.” In a volume based on papers from the joint session of the Paul and Politics and Pauline Soteriology Groups of the SBL, November 2011; in development.

“The Rhetoric of Nationalism and the Unthinkable in New Testament Scholarship.” In Rhetorics of Nationalism in New Testament Studies. Ed. Davina A. Lopez and Todd C. Penner. Proposed special issue of Biblical Interpretation, in development. 2017 “Economic Stratification and the Lord’s Supper in Corinth.” In Paul and Economics: A Handbook. Ed. Tom Blanton and Raymond Pickett. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

“Crossing Boundaries,” introduction to the volume, and “When Bridges Fail: Studying Economic Realities in New Testament Studies,” in Crossing Boundaries in New Testament Interpretation. Ed. Neil Elliott and Werner Kelber. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

2015 “Paul as a Diaspora Jew: The Political Question.” In Paul within Judaism. Ed. Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, Fortress Press.

“Paul and the Roman Empire, II: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians.” In The Bible and Empire. Ed. Adam Winn. SBL and Brill.

“Occupy This Desk.” In Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis: Political Exegesis for a New Day. Ed. Bruce Worthington. Forthcoming from Fortress Press. 2014 “Creation and Conflict, Cosmos and Conquest: Spirit in Romans 8 and 9.” InApocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5–8. Ed. Beverly Roberts Gaventa. Waco: Baylor University Press. Pages 131-54.

“Gender and Economics: New Testament.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies. General editor Julia M. O’Brien; Davina A. Lopez and Todd C. Penner. Editors. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

“Justice.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics. Ed. Robert Brawley. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. “Situating the Apostle Paul in His Day and Engaging His Legacy in Our Own,” and “Introduction to Hebrews, the General Epistles, and Revelation,” in Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament. Ed. Margaret Aymer, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, and David A. Sánchez. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

2013 “The Philosophers’ Paul and the Churches.” In Paul in the Grip of the Philosophers: The Apostle and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Ed. Peter Frick; Paul in Critical Contexts. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

2012 “Diagnosing an Allergic Reaction: The Avoidance of Marxism in Pauline Scholarship.” Bible and Critical Theory 8:2, 1-12. Online: http://bibleandcriticaltheory.org/index.php/bct/article/ viewFile/528/471.

2011 “Marxism and the Postcolonial Interpretation of Paul.” In The Colonized Apostle: Paul through Postcolonial Eyes. Ed. Christopher D. Stanley. Paul in Critical Contexts. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

“Romans.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible. Ed. Michael Coogan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010 “Political Christology in Paul: Samples from Romans.” In Reading Paul in Context: Explorations in Identity Formation. Ed. K. Ehrensperger and B. Tucker. London: T. & T. Clark.

“Introduction to a New Way of Reading” and “The New Testament as a Text of Cultures.” In The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

“Ideological Constraint and the Christ-Event: A Marxist Response to the Philosophers’ Paul.” In Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical. Ed. Douglas Harink. Theopolitical Visions. Portland: Wipf & Stock.

Notes and Introduction to Romans, revised and expanded. The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th ed.. Ed. Michael D. Coogan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008 “‘Blasphemed among the Nations’: Pursuing An Imperial ‘Intertextuality’ in Romans.” In As It Is Written: Studying Paul’s Use of Scripture. Ed. Stanley E. Porter and Christopher D. Stanley. Symposium 50. Atlanta: SBL. “Paul and Empire.” In the Shadow of Empire: The Bible as Resistance. Ed. Richard A. Horsley. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press.

“The Bible and Empire” and study notes. In The Peoples’ Bible. Ed. Curtiss P. DeYoung, Wilda Gafney, Leticia Guardiola-Sáenz, and Frank M. Yamada. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

“A Famine of the Word of God: A Stringfellowian Reflection on the Present Situation.” In The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times. Ed. Ellen B. Aitken, Jonathan Draper, and Cynthia Briggs Kittredge. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

2007 “Messianic Secret.” In Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus. Ed. Craig A. Evans. London: Routledge.

“Political Formation in the Letter to the Romans.” In Character Ethics and the New Testament. Ed. Robert Brawley. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox.

“The Letter to the Romans.” In A Postcolonial New Testament Commentary. Ed. R. S. Sugirtharajah and F. F. Segovia. Continuum.

2005 “An American ‘Myth of Innocence’ and the Interpretation of Paul.” Biblical Interpretation 13:3, 239-49. “Disciplining the Hope of the Poor in Ancient Rome.” Pages 177-200 in Christian Origins. Ed. Richard A. Horsley. A People’s History of Christianity, vol. 1. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. German translation: “Die Hoffnung der Armen in Schranken halten,” pages 205-26 in Sozialgeschichte des Christentums, Bd. 1, Die ersten Christen (übersetzt Burghard Bock; Gütersloh: Güterslöher Verlagshaus, 2007).

2004 “Strategies of Resistance and Hidden Transcripts in the Pauline Communities.” Pages 97-122 in Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul. Ed. Richard A. Horsley. Semeia 48. Atlanta: Scholars Press.

“L’interpretation politique: Le cas d’apôtre Paul.” Pages 306-15 in Lectures nouvelles. Ed. A. LaCocque. Paris: Bayard Presse.

“Situer l’Apôtre Paul à l’ombre de l’Empire: pratique apostolique, idéologie impériale et cérémonial impérial.” Pages 157-86 in Paul, une théologie en construction. Ed. A. Dettwiler, J.-D. Kaestli, D. Marguerat. Le Monde de la Bible 51. Geneva: Labor et Fides.

“The Apostle Paul’s Self-Presentation as Anti-Imperial Performance.” Pages 67-88 in Paul and the Roman Imperial Order. Ed. R. A. Horsley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International.

2002 “The Letters of Paul: God’s Justice against Empire.” Pages 122-147 in The New Testament: Introducing the Way of Discipleship. Ed. Wes Howard-Brook and Sharon Ringe. Maryknoll: Orbis. “The ‘Patience of the Jews’: Strategies of Accommodation and Resistance.” Pages 32-41 in Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel. Ed. Janice Capel Anderson, Philip Sellew, and Claudia Setzer. JSNTSup 221. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

1999 “Paul and the Politics of Empire: Problems and Prospects.” Pages 17-39 in Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation, ed. R. A. Horsley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International.

1997 “Asceticism among ‘Weak’ and ‘Strong’ in Romans.” Pages 231-51 in Asceticism in the New Testament. Ed. Leif E. Vaage and Vincent Wimbush. London and New York: Routledge.

“The Anti-Imperial Message of the Cross.” Pages 167-83 in Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society. Ed. Richard A. Horsley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International. Excerpted from Liberating Paul (see above), chapter 4.

“Romans 13:1-7 in the Context of Imperial Propaganda.” Pages 184-204 in Paul and Empire. Ed. Richard A. Horsley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International.

1996 “Figure and Ground in the Interpretation of Romans 9—11.” Pages 371-89 in The Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Classic and Contemporary Readings, ed. Stephen E. Fowl. Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell.

1993 “Violence as a Problem in Post-Holocaust Theology.” Vertigo.

“Paul and the Lethality of the Law: A Response to Robert Hamerton-Kelly’s Sacred Violence.” Foundations & Facets Forum 9:3-4, 237-56.

“The Silence of the Messiah: The Function of ‘Messianic Secret’ Motifs across the Synoptics.” Pages 604-22 in SBL Seminar Papers 1993. Ed. Kent Richards. Atlanta: Scholars Press.

Editorial Assistance

To the editorial committee, The New Revised Standard Version. Ed. Bruce M. Metzger. 1993.

Assistant and Contributor, Ephesus Inscriptions. Ed. Donald McCabe. Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1991.

Assistant and Contributor, Priene Inscriptions. Ed. Donald McCabe. Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1987. Papers and Addresses

Panelist reviewing E. P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism, 40th edition. SBL special session. (Nov. 2017) Moderator, panel discussion of “Poverty, Ideology, and the Formation of Biblical Scholars.” Joint session of the Poverty in the Biblical World and Ideological Criticism Groups, Society of Biblical Literature. (Nov. 2014) Panelist reviewing Charles McDaniel, Competition and Virtue in an Age of Financialization, Economics of the Biblical World Consultation, Society of Biblical Literature. (Nov. 2014) “Paul in the U.S. Cultural Politics Today.” Invited remarks, Paul and Politics Group, Society of Biblical Literature. (Nov. 2014) Panelist reviewing Soundings in Cultural Criticism. Ed. Greg Carey and Francisco Lozada (Fortress Press, 2013), at the Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament Group, Society of Biblical Literature (Nov. 2013) “Creation and Spirit in Romans 8 and 9: Cosmos and Conflict, Creation and Conquest.” Invited plenary paper at conference on Creation, Cosmos, and Conflict in Romans. Princeton Theological Seminary. (May 2012) “Romans 1 Is Not about Homosexuality.” Powerpoint presentation, Christ Lutheran Church, Minneapolis; St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, St. Paul. (March 2012) “Utopia in Paul’s Thought.” Response to papers, joint session of the Pauline Soteriology and Paul and Politics Groups, Society of Biblical Literature. (Nov. 2011) “Rhetorics of Nationalism in the New Testament.” Consultation on rhetorics of nationalism, Society of Biblical Literature. (Nov. 2011) “The Exodus Narrative as Parody of Egyptian Mythology.” Egyptology and Ancient Israel Section, Society of Biblical Literature. (Nov. 2010) “Diagnosing an Allergic Reaction: The Fate of Marxist Criticism in Contemporary New Testament Interpretation.” Ideological Criticism Section, Society of Biblical Literature. (Nov. 2010) “Paul and the ‘Spiral of Violence.’” Public lecture at the University of Lund. May 2010. “Crises and Opportunities in the Study of Romans.” Presentation to the NT Seminar, University of Lund. Response to papers, Paul and Politics Group, Society of Biblical Literature. Nov. 2009. Response to panelists, review of The Arrogance of Nations, Society of Biblical Literature. Nov. 2009. “Paul and the Future of the Church.” Seminar sponsored by St. Paul’s on the Hill Episcopal Church, St. Paul. May 2009. “A Jewish Approach to Paul’s Christophany.” Panel discussion of Alan F. Segal’s work on the occasion of his visit to United Theological Seminary. April, 2009. “Paul between Jerusalem and Rome: A Political Understanding of His Apostolate.” International Seminar on St. Paul convened by the Society of St. Paul in the Anno Paolino. Ariccia, Italy, April 19-29. http://www.paulus.net/sspimages/displayimage.php?album=258&pos=5 “Liberating Paul: Pauline Evangelization in the Shadow of Empire.” International Seminar on St. Paul. “The Bible at Lambeth.” Panel review of the “Reflections Document” from the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, at the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars, Nov. 2008. “The New Testament and Empire: The Case of the Apostle Paul.” Two-day workshop at Union Theological Seminary, New York, Sept. 25-26, 2008. “Ideological Constraint and Christophany: A Marxist Response to the Philosophers’ Paul.” Paper presented at International Conference on St. Paul’s Journeys among the Philosophers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 4-6, 2008. Panel presentation on Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Jacob Taubes, and Slavoj Žižek as interpreters of Paul. Conference on Paul’s justification teaching in the context of empire, Union Theological Seminary, April 2008. “The New Testament and the Horizon of the Possible.” Presentation at Westminster Presbyterian’s Education for Faith and Life program, April 2008. Consultant to Episcopal Peace Fellowship Draft Resolution on Preemptive War, 2008. “Paul and Empire.” Workshop for Heart of the North Pastors’ Conference, Wisconsin, 2007. “Exorcism and Empire.” Response to Richard A. Horsley, Historical Jesus section, SBL 2007. “’Blasphemed among the Nations’: Intertextualities beyond Scripture in Paul’s Letter to the Romans.” Paper presented to the Seminar on Paul’s Use of Scripture, SBL, 2007. “Health Care as a Human Right.” Address to ISAIAH public meeting on health care in Minnesota. 2006. “Measuring Intertextuality.” Response to papers by Nicholas Perrin and John Marshall in the Paul and Politics Section, SBL, 2005. “The Parables as Subversive Speech,” leading a study group on William Herzog’s book at St. Paul’s on the Hill, 2005. “The Incarnation of the Word: A Stringfellowian Perspective on Our Situation.” People’s Seminary Word and World conference on the legacy of William Stringfellow (“Stringfellow Mini-School,” Minneapolis, 2005. http://www.wordandworld.org/Stringfellow/index.shtml. “Paul and Empire.” Workshop at the Charis Conference, International Falls, 2005. “Finding Our Place, Finding Our Voice: What It Means to be ‘Church’ in America Today.” Address at the Annual Lectureship of the Center for Liberal Christianity, Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, 2005. “When Is It a Just War, and When Is It ‘Just War’?” Address to the Every Church a Peace Church Campaign, Minneapolis, 2005. “Health Care from the Perspective of Christian Faith.” Address to a public meeting sponsored by the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition (JRLC), St. Paul, 2004. “Christianity among the Religions of the World.” Panel presentation before a regional 4-H assembly, St. Paul, 2004. “Exodus as the Subversion of Egyptian Imperial Ideology.” Paper presented to Upper Midwest Regional Annual Meeting, AAR/SBL, 2004. “Situating Paul in the Shadow of Empire.” Presentation at the conference “Paul: Une théologie en construction,” sponsored by the theological faculties of the Universities of Lausanne and Neuchâtel, Lausanne, Switzerland. 2003. With the staff of the Lambi Fund of Haiti. “Peasant Organizations as a Democratic Alternative for Institution Building in Haiti.” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Haitian Studies Association, 2000. “Jesus in the ‘Culture Wars.’” Upper Midwest Regional Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL, 2003. “Response to the ‘Narrative Outline’ at Luke 17:1—19:27.” Presented at the SBL Two-Gospel Hypothesis Working Group, Boston, 1994. “Paul and the Lethality of the Law.” Presented at the Colloquium On Violence and Religion, Stanford University, May 1992. “Shifts in Narrative Time in the Johannine Last Discourse.” Presented at the SBL Narrative Criticism of the Gospel of John Group, 1992. Columns and Reports on Haiti

“Whitewashing a Global Coup.” Submitted to The Nation (2004). “Where ‘Freedom’ Talk Rings Hollow: The Attack on Democracy in Haiti.” The Witness online. June 17, 2005. “Haiti: Both Church and State Must Answer.” The Witness online. March 26, 2004. “U.S. Is Complicit in Haiti Crisis.” The Witness online. February 27, 2004. With Elizabeth Bruch. “No Justice in Sight for Rape Survivors.” Connection to the Americas, January 1996. With Elizabeth Bruch. Another Violence against Women: The Lack of Accountability in Haiti. Minneapolis: Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, 1995. “The Case Against an Invasion.” Connection to the Americas, Sept. 1994. “The Question of Justice in Haiti.” Women Against Military Madness Newsletter, Sept. 1994. “U.S. Policy on Haiti: Business as Usual, Whatever the Human Costs.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 15, 1994. “Haiti’s Misery Is the Result of Carefully Orchestrated U.S. Policy.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 1, 1993. “Capitalism Seems to Rule U.S. Policy Toward Haiti.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 13, 1992.

Columns at The Witness (the social justice journal of the Episcopal Church, online at www.thewitness.org, now continued as Episcopal Peace Witness)

“Praying Our Vote.” Episcopal Peace Witness Aug. 2008. “Reclaiming the Christian Just War Tradition.” Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Pentecost 2004. “‘There Shall Be No Coercion in Matters of Faith.’” [on controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI’s lecture at the University of Regensburg, Germany.] Sept. 20, 2006. “‘Peace! Be Still!’: Marching Orders from General Convention?” [on the Episcopal Church’s stance toward members in committed same-sex relationships.] June 23, 2006. “Real Absence: The Eucharist, the Johannine Christ, and the Life of the World.” March 25, 2006. “Can the Church Afford This Political Subsidy?” [on the IRS inquiry into an anti-war sermon at All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena.] November 11, 2005. “Moving Beyond the Magic 8-Ball Approach to the Bible: Reflections on the Statement To Set Our Hope on Christ.” [On the Episcopal Church’s response to the Windsor Report.] July 16, 2005. “Where ‘Freedom’ Talk Rings Hollow: The Attack on Democracy in Haiti.” June 17, 2005. “Crusader Theology: The Fallout from Kingdom of Heaven.” June 4, 2005. “The End of Empathy? Negotiating a Moral ‘Public Health Crisis.’” [on the Terri Schiavo case.] April 4, 2005. “Seeing the Crucified in the Real World.” [On torture at Abu Ghraib.] March 2, 2005. “Useful Fundamentalists (and the ‘Problem with Islam’).” Feb. 4, 2005. “Reclaiming the Christian Just-War Tradition.” January 31, 2005. “The Responsibility of the Christian Left.” December 2, 2004. “Revisiting Augustine and Just-War Theory.” June 30, 2004. “Haiti: Both Church and State Must Answer.” March 26, 2004. “U.S. Is Complicit in Haiti Crisis.” February 27, 2004. “The Apostle Paul on Sexuality.” July 12, 2003. Other Columns and Counterpoints

“Why the Crusades Are Still a Bad Idea.” Star Tribune, July 2015. “Bishops Are Squandering a Rich Tradition of Moral Teaching.” Star Tribune, October 2011. “For Couples Like Stephen and Michael, Blessing and Hope.” Star Tribune, January 2004. “Of Oil and Afghanistan.” The Nation, December 2001. “More than a ‘Challenge,’ Afghanistan is a Humanitarian Catastrophe.” October 2001 (unpublished). “What a Genuine ‘War on Terrorism’ Might Look Like.” September 2001 (unpublished). “To Mourn, and to Dissent.” September 12, 2001 (unpublished). “‘Christian Politics’ Ought to Try for a Genuinely Humane Society” [on Texas Governor George W. Bush’s campaign comments about Jesus as a “political philosopher”]. Star Tribune, December 1999. “Not a Civil War, but a One-Sided Terror Campaign” [rebutting Thomas Friedman regarding genocide in East Timor]. Star Tribune, October 1999. “NATO’s Unexploded Devices” [in Kosovo]. Star Tribune, July 1999. “Clinton’s Other Sins” [economic sanctions in Iraq]. Christian Century, Feb. 1999. “United Nations Experts and Episcopal Peace Fellowship Condemn Sanctions against Iraq.” Soundings (Minnesota diocesan newsletter), April 1999. “Political Culture on the Big Screen.” [film reviews.] Sojourners 27:5 (September-October 1998), 75-76. “No Acolyte of Rome: A New Look at the Apostle Paul.” Sojourners 27:2 (March-April 1998), 30-33. “When Angels Harp for Equal Billing: A ‘New Age’ St. Paul Explains.” Sojourners 27:1 (January- February 1998), 55-56. “Degrees of Terror: The Film Industry and Presidential Violence.” Sojourners 26:4 (November- December 1997), 58-59. “Critique of Jesus Seminar Has Troubling Implications.” Star Tribune, March 1997. “Why Suppose Christ Wanted No Women in Clergy?” [rebutting criticisms of “Sophia” Conference in Minneapolis.] Star Tribune, January 1995. “Krauthammer Ignores the Somali Oil Connection” [rebutting Charles Krauthammer regarding U.S. intervention in Somalia]. Star Tribune, September 1993. “Why Overlook U.S. Role in Wars?” [in Ethiopia and Angola]. Pioneer Press, June 12, 1991.