Scriptures Everywhere
Scriptures Everywhere
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What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? Each season in this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as the role of scriptures in cultural history, and social justice, with specific episodes exploring concepts like Marronage and featuring discussions around the intersection of faith and art in contemporary society.
What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? In this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.
This was the third and final session of the Spring 2026 season for the Institute for Signifying Scriptures’ podcast, Scriptures Everywhere. We concluded our conversation about Cruelty as Citizenship by Cristina Beltrán. The participants reflected on why Latina/o/e/x people both complicate and reinforce whiteness in U.S. democracy and considered the historical context of racial categorization in both Latin America and the United States. The participants concluded by discussing how scriptural politics and interpretation are used to maintain power structures, by turning to arguments around birthright citizenship where the Trump administration demonstrates an approach to scriptural authority that is not strictly textual.
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