Marcia Pally

Marcia Pally teaches Multilingual Multicultural Studies at New York University and is a regular guest professor in the theology department at Humboldt University. She is the author of The New Evangelicals, and Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics and Theologies of Relationality.

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Religion Dispatches

Act, Pray, Tweet: What the H*ll To Do About Gun Violence?

We’re now averaging more than one mass shooting per day, The Washington Post reported last August. But the mounting frustration of chasing solutions is the good news. The Daily News piece “God Isn’t…

Marcia Pally

December 4, 2015

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"Love Them As Yourself": God's Words or IKEA Instructions?

Since the Paris attacks, the right’s response to refugees crisis has been martial: we’re at war; keep them out. The counter-response is that we’re morally bound to admit and help them. But what…

Marcia Pally

December 2, 2015

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Note to GOP Voters: "Political Freedom" Comes With Social Responsibility

The Republican contest in this presidential election, as in many before, is between degrees of small-government-ism. To be sure, the party wasn’t always the party of “government is the problem.”…

Marcia Pally

November 16, 2015

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