Can’t wait to be in Singapore in a couple weeks. I might even be more excited about the food than about giving these lectures, but so very much looking forward to both. If you’re in SG or nearby hit me up.
You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone ). The tweet reads: "RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research. ALZHEIMERS. One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today. He’s not interested. He’s a nasty piece of work."
Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.
🚨 NEW via POLITICO: Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world
Mike Waltz’s team used at least 20 Signal chats to coordinate official work on Ukraine, China, Gaza, and more—often discussing sensitive info.
This goes way beyond what was previously known.
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
This was my first thought too. Yes it’s sloppy but it’s intentionally running gov ops offline and away from gov oversight. WTAF?
Call for proposals (due March 28th)
Conference: “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025
#moneytheory #financestudies #religion #culturalstudies #economics #religionandeconomy #economictheology #debtstudies
blogs.ed.ac.uk/future_of_mo...
over break, i got word that my mini-monograph, _magic and heresy in ancient christian literature_, is officially accepted and in queue for press.
it's part of this CUP series edited by the brilliant and amazing @drewjakeprof.bsky.social.
check out the super-smart company i get to keep:
It's great to see this thoughtful review of *The Varieties of Atheism,* published by Peter Fritz.
"Totally absent from this volume is the point-scoring that transpires between airport bookshop atheists and putative defenders of the faith....The result is sophisticated and satisfying."
#christiantheology #redemption #debt #debtcancellation #jubilee #theology #capitalism #lending #predatorylending #carcerality #carceralcapitalism #politicaltheology #religionandpolitics
What would it mean to take Jubilee seriously—not just as a historical curiosity, but as a challenge to how we understand justice, grace, and obligation? I explore these tensions in my forthcoming book Sacred Debt. Sign up on my mailing list for updates and to be notified when it's out.
Redemption follows the principle of repayment; Jubilee, the principle of cancellation.
Slide with text asking what is wrong with Christian redemption theology.
Christian theology has long emphasized salvation as redemption—sin as a debt to be repaid. Yet the Bible also offers another vision: Jubilee, where debts are not settled but erased. While both metaphors appear in scripture, they operate on different logics.
So impressed with folks who have time to consume podcasts. Parallel processing skills must be off the 📈s.
This time thru my “Religion and Social Capital” class I included Hahrie Han’s @hahrie.bsky.social latest book Undivided, documenting a racial justice program at a Cincinnati megachurch. It worked really well with the curriculum (Bourdieu, Coleman, Putnam, Durkheim, Mauss and many others).
Really scary and fucking upsetting if this turns out to be the case. God we’re screwed in so many ways…
People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:
Another time through my “God and Money” course, and again a week teaching Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Some
students love it; for some, it drives them crazy. I understand both responses.
Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering.
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Having written about Jubilee’s underside as reinstating sovereignty, I’m now curious to explore its chthonic elements. Has the parallel w the Flood been explored and can folks point me to sources?
One of my students linked Jubilee to the Flood. “They are both a reset.” I said, “damn, that’s dark… and damn, that’s brilliant.”
A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that indefinitely blocked President Trump’s attempt to unilaterally eliminate automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants on U.S. soil.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
This is one of the primary goals of "AI" these days: to create an empty chair that takes the blame for corporate misconduct.
We didn't discriminate, the AI told us who to hire. We didn't wrongfully reject the health insurance claim, the AI told us to. And on and on.
This has been my impression and experience of social media basically since it emerged and one of many reasons why I hate it so.
classic weakly regulated capitalism will kill us all headline
