It’s a new year, but our old patterns of US imperialism are already proving destructive at home and abroad. With MLK and others who dared to dissent, let’s recognize and reject the habits of empire. #history #resist
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Grateful for your bravery, @mark-bray.bsky.social calling out the "textbook authoritarianism stuff" with What a Day.
Everyone should hear about the attempted roadblocks to your leaving the country. The interview can be heard at this file: pdst.fm/e/arttrk.com...
May the resistance continue...
In 1843, William Lloyd Garrison told a crowd that among Christians, “either Jesus or Washington must be rejected.” He went on: “Shall a stain be cast on…Jesus Christ, in order to screen the reputation of Washington…who chains, enslaves, and crushes a portion of the human race?”
Celebrating the enduring words of Hildegard of Bingen, I reflect them while struggling with how misuses of gen AI gum up the critical thinking apparatus of students and religious higher education institutions. #Hildegard #HistoryofChristianity #CatholicMysticism #GenAI #AISlop
I'm appalled at how people continue to offer myths of Kirk as a free-speech martyr. He peddled hate and grievance. Those who buy what he was selling mistake resentment for righteousness and weaponize it against those who truly do advance critical thinking. open.substack.com/pub/nathanje...
Outraged at claims Charlie Kirk was a “martyr,” I’m thinking about martyr stories as authoritarian propaganda. American Christians must reject the martyrdom narratives that embolden authoritarianism. #martyrdom #politicalviolence #authoritarianisminamerica #americanchristianity
I was able to share about my public history work at convocation, and call for reckoning with how slavery enriched the churches and the seminary. So honored that colleagues in our work of African American public history, friends, and family could join in a libation honoring ancestors.
I my reflections today: "I hope enough of us will seek and find love enough to stand there, amidst the suffering, with and for one another. I have no choice but to hope that love will sustain us."
On the eve of a high holy day of American idolatry, some thoughts at my substack, Tables--Reflecting on how the language of No Kings veers toward American myths, empire, and idolatry.
On January 6, 2021, a mob prayed right before breaking into the Capitol in a violent insurrection. On July 3, GOP politicians prayed again to pass the Big Ugly Bill. Now the insurrection is coming from inside the House.
I've been granted tenure and promotion as the L. Russell Feakes Associate Professor of the History of Global Christianity at New Brunswick Theological Seminary! Shout out to my family, students, colleagues, and collaborators in the work of doing history and social justice. nbts.edu/nathan-jerem...
Sharing some thoughts today on my new Substack, Tables. Check me out and feel free to share: nathanjeremiebrink.substack.com/p/abundance-...
So cool to see my friend and former colleague Yaw Bediako in the news for the amazing work that he and his company Yemaachi Biotech are doing in Ghana!
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My convictions and the collective voice of my colleagues speaking to the present moment can be found in our faculty statement here: nbts.edu/nbts-faculty...
"We are obligated to take the present administration to task precisely for the ways it has claimed sanction and warrant in the Christian tradition. This coopts faith in service to a partisan idolatry and cult of personality, which we must renounce."
Christians must openly reject claims of a religious warrant for Trump's imperialist, nativist, and hateful policy agendas.
This verse champions the value of our histories and the beauty of human life. We tell the stories of hope and vitality. I love this juxtaposition between our branded and broken technology and our prophetic storytelling that critiques power and calls to the transcendent.
I speak of promised lands
Soil as soft as momma's hands
Running water, standing still
Endless fields of daffodils and chamomile
Rice under black beans
Walked into Apple with cracked screens
And told prophetic stories of freedom…
…I speak to God in public,
I speak to God in public.
Here's the attribution from the verse (one of my all-time favorites) in my profile description, from Chance the Rapper.
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