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Decolonial Homophobia: Is Decolonisation Incompatible with LGBT+ Affirmation in Christian Ethics? (2023)
Journal Article
Day, C. M. (2024). Decolonial Homophobia: Is Decolonisation Incompatible with LGBT+ Affirmation in Christian Ethics?. Studies in Christian Ethics, 37(1), 71-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468231215304

I evaluate the argument advanced in politics and Christian ethics that I term ‘decolonial homophobia’: that decolonisation and LGBT+ affirmation are contradictory because LGBT+ rights are a global Northern phenomenon that is imperialistically imposed... Read More about Decolonial Homophobia: Is Decolonisation Incompatible with LGBT+ Affirmation in Christian Ethics?.

Join this Chariot: Christian Schools Supporting Rainbow Students’ Wellbeing (2021)
Report
Kerr, B., Day, C., & Various contributors. (2021). Join this Chariot: Christian Schools Supporting Rainbow Students’ Wellbeing. Wellington, New Zealand: InsideOUT Kōaro

This resource aims to support Christian faith-based schools to be welcoming and safe places for rainbow rangatahi. We also hope this resource will be useful for mainstream schools in communities where a significant proportion of the community holds C... Read More about Join this Chariot: Christian Schools Supporting Rainbow Students’ Wellbeing.

How Martin Luther King, Jr’s Pacifist Liberation Theology Makes Reinhold Niebuhr’s Political Realism Possible (2019)
Journal Article
Day, C. (2020). How Martin Luther King, Jr’s Pacifist Liberation Theology Makes Reinhold Niebuhr’s Political Realism Possible. Global Society, 34(1), 36-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2019.1668358

Reinhold Niebuhr crafted a compelling theologically based theory of political realism, which became the basis for a withering critique of pacifism. Martin Luther King, Jr was influenced by Niebuhr’s Augustinian realism in his own political theology a... Read More about How Martin Luther King, Jr’s Pacifist Liberation Theology Makes Reinhold Niebuhr’s Political Realism Possible.

Sources and the Legality and Validity of International Law: Natural Law as Source of Extra-Positive Norms (2017)
Book Chapter
O’Connell, M. E., & Day, C. (2017). Sources and the Legality and Validity of International Law: Natural Law as Source of Extra-Positive Norms. In S. Besson, & J. d’Aspremont (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law (562-580). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198745365.003.0027

This chapter posits that international law, like all law, can be understood as a hybrid of positive and natural law. The history of natural law from Ancient Greece to today’s global community reveals that the method used for centuries to explain extr... Read More about Sources and the Legality and Validity of International Law: Natural Law as Source of Extra-Positive Norms.