Your Unbound editors are excited to announce a new project for the journal, as we begin to roll out columns on issues that are of perennial concern.
We start by introducing a column by Ray Roberts, a former ACSWP co-chair, who will engage with issues of international relations and political philosophy. His column is entitled Redeeming Realism and, through it, he will try to articulate a Christian vision for U.S. foreign policy that is grounded in power analysis while also critiquing short-sightedness policies rooted in hyper-militarism and amoral Realpolitik. We have released two pieces so far, in which Ray introduces the column and responds to Trump’s withdrawal from the INF treaty.
Although Ray will headline the column, it also represents an opportunity for dialogue. We encourage readers with other perspectives to write in as well, either responding to Ray in “Letter to the editor” style or by covering an international relations issue of your own interest. The recent piece we have posted by Noushin Framke, on the Trump administration’s desire to punish Iran into a subservient posture, would stand in this foreign policy area.
In the next 2 months, we are working to develop additional columns that challenge readers to:
1) Engage with climate change
2) Build community in urban settings, challenging the divisions of racial and economic inequality
3) Address the complexities of gender and sexuality and family life
Clearly, there are other major categories of human experience that are regularly in the news: health issues, including mental health; agriculture and food distribution; criminal justice; science and technology (some of which deal with climate change); immigration; education; aesthetics; sport… All have implications for the life of faith, and many bloggers take them on. For Unbound, our columnists are edited (if lightly) and they join and strengthen an internal conversation about the church’s social witness.
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