When Portuguese ships carried missionaries to the Malabar coast in the sixteenth century, they brought a Church shaped by Trent, the Inquisition and the confidence of empire. Their theology made a quiet assumption: that the mission field was a tabula rasa, a blank slate on which European Christianity could be written. If the slate was not blank, as with...
Karma Comes Full Circle: The Return of the Repressed and the Rise of Feminine Resistance in India
The psychological concept of the return of the repressed, first articulated by Sigmund Freud, describes how memories, desires, or traumatic impulses that have been driven out of conscious awareness do not simply disappear. Instead, they gather force in the unconscious and eventually break back into consciousness, often in distorted, fragmented, or explosive forms. What is suppressed does not vanish;...
The (Un)Homed Christian Facing Hindutva Aggression: An Anasemic Reading
Introduction The Indian Christian today does not face a debate. He faces a correction. A mob outside a prayer hall in Chhattisgarh, a survey notice to old church in Mumbai calling it an encroachment, an anti-conversion FIR in Uttar Pradesh against a pastor praying for the sick, a social media campaign calling Goan Catholics “rice bags” – these are...
Thought Fascism: The Effort to Control How People Think
Thought fascism describes the deliberate attempt by individuals, groups or institutions to police the contents of the human mind. It seeks not merely to regulate actions or speech, but to shape the very process of thinking itself. Those who practice it believe that certain ideas must never form, certain questions must never arise, and certain conclusions must never be...
From Logic to Resonance:Ruminations on the Teacher’s Day
Teacher’s Day arrives again, and after twenty six years in classrooms I find myself pausing longer than usual. The desks look familiar, the chalk dust still settles on my hands, yet the air itself has changed. Outside these walls a digitized world and artificial intelligence keep rewriting the map of knowledge. Inside, the learning community that inhabits this space...
Life : Between the Signifier and the Signified
Life is never a smooth sail. The circle of life is always interrupted and disrupted. The directionality of life is often interrupted and life often appears to be going in circles as its forward thrust gets diverted or deflected. But why do we naturalize the linearity of life? Why do we assume life has to go in a straight...
THE CRIME MACHINE IN INDIA: THE RISE OF THE PANPARAPTOMATICON Biopolitics, Post-Crime, and Theological Resistance in the Age of AI
This paper introduces and systematizes a new critical concept , the Panparaptomaticon to diagnose an emergent regime of governance in India and beyond. Derived from Greek pan (all), paraptoma (misdeed, offense, lapse) and icon (instrument, image, device), the term denotes an apparatus that watches all and automatically produces offenses from the fabric of ordinary life. The paper traces a...
Historicizing Consent: Understanding Agreement Across Time
Consent is often treated as a self-evident principle in contemporary society, a straightforward affirmation of personal autonomy, especially in matters of intimacy, contracts, and governance. Yet, when we historicize consent, we uncover a concept deeply shaped by cultural, legal, and social contexts that evolve over centuries. Far from being timeless or universal, consent has been interpreted, contested, and deployed...
Theology of Attention for an Age of Extraction: The Challenge to Reclaim Sovereignty Over Our Attention
In an era defined by relentless extraction, our attention has become the most contested resource on earth. Platforms engineered for engagement mine our focus with surgical precision, harvesting data, time, and inner life to fuel endless growth. This is not mere distraction; it is a spiritual crisis. The “Theology of Attention” invites us to view our capacity to notice,...
The Theology of Attention and the Videos Series , The Chosen
The theology of attention invites believers to consider focus itself as a sacred act. In Christian thought, attention is never neutral. It shapes the heart, forms character, and determines what or whom we ultimately worship. Scripture repeatedly calls God’s people to direct their gaze rightly: “Fix your eyes on Jesus” (Hebrews 12:2), “Set your minds on things above” (Colossians...
