The draft of the proposal is now complete. 8,268 words, around 30 pages. The final manuscript is scheduled at this point tobe 75,000 words, or about 300 pages. Really happy with how it hangs together.
Grateful!
Thank you!!
Working on another book proposal. This one is for a more philosophical project.
Working title is Synodality, Subsidiarity, Solidarity: An Essay on the Church in the Third Millennium.
I’m in that wonderful phase where the energy is good, and I am very excited. More details to come!
Can we start calling it the Ba’alroom now?
One might ask: What is a 25th Amendment even for?
Quote from Copeland on a whiteboard
Last night in class, the students and I took an entire hour to discuss one sentence from M. Shawn Copeland’s book, Enfleshing Freedom.
That, my friends, is graduate school.
If this sounds like fun to you, come work with us at Loyola Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies!
We interview our own David Dault @daultradio.bsky.social, who has been recording and editing us since the beginning of our podcast. He’s so much more than our recording engineer: he’s a theologian, a professor, an author, a husband, a father and a great friend. Check out his book and our interview.
How do we react when the Bible become an "accessory" to crimes of violence?
That's just one of the questions in today's episode of @deaconspod.bsky.social in which the Paulist Deacon Affiliates interview @daultradio.bsky.social about his book "The Accessorized Bible" from @yalepress.bsky.social:
I am so grateful for this chance to talk to my beloved friends, the Paulist deacons, about my book, the #AccessorizedBible
Thank you Yale Center for Faith and Culture for this wonderful conversation about my book, the #AccessorizedBible faith.yale.edu/media/the-ac...
As I was sitting in a meeting this morning, I figured out a new way to map some tensions I am seeing. I would love to get your feedback and suggestions. Thank you!
https://daviddault.substack.com/p/a-new-quadrilateral
Occasionally reminded that Georgia added a “post tenure review” process bc they were so certain that professors became deadweight once they had job security, and all the outcomes have proven JUST THE OPPOSITE! People work harder and in more complex ways when they feel secure in their employment.
Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.
Our society is so fixated on sexual violence, and yet so unwilling to examine the underlying attitudes that produce it. If you don't eliminate misogyny and patriarchy, you will never stop the violent symptoms they inexorably produce.
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
“…the Epstein files highlight issues that women in academe have mostly discussed in whisper networks: Who is unsafe to be alone with? Which advisers are to be avoided? Whose connections may come with a price?” www.chronicle.com/article/unma...
Lots of good quotes here, and I think if anything good comes out of this awfulness it will perhaps be academics rethinking our reflexive obeisance to prestige and wealth.
"...the notion of the meritocracy is completely revealed to be gendered bullshit.” - @dannagal.bsky.social
The attractiveness of agentic AIs is a symptom of a decades-long trend in higher education. “Univiristies…by and large adopted a transactive model of education,” Kirschenbaum said. “Students see their diploma as a credential. They pay tuition and at the end of four years, sometimes five years, they receive the credential and, in theory at least, that is then the springboard to economic stability and prosperity.”
the AIs are attractive because of what education has become in the US
Screenshot from NEH webpage, text reads: "Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present."
Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome.
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...
#Sinology 🀄️📚
The cost for the series is $50. We meet via Zoom each Monday from 6-7:30 pm CT
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STARTS TODAY (Monday, March 2) - There is still time to sign up for this Lenten lecture series on Queer Theology in the spirit of Pope Francis.
Link is in the comments - Please join us!
If anyone is interested in the keynote I gave at the AJCU conference in Tucson last week, I have posted it here. It’s long and weird, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
daviddault.substack.com/p/framing-artificial-int...
tinyurl.com/Dignified2026
Freinds - Please consider signing up for this 4-part Lenten lecture series on Queer theology. FULLY ONLINE! It's $50 for the whole thing. Please pass this info along to folks that you think might benefit - thank you!
Here's the registration page: https://tinyurl.com/Dignified2026
Hey, good people. I will be delivering an online lecture series every Monday evening in March: “Dignified Agency: Queer Theology in the Spirit of Pope Francis.” I hope you will consider joining, Thank you!
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Thank you! Luck favors the prepared, but it was a lot of luck :)
A friend of mine from college is/was the "Fuck You" Dad, and he has learned some great stuff about virality...
A year ago I had a post “go viral,” getting millions of views and engagements. My latest essay talks about that — how I did it, and more importantly, why. I welcome your thoughts and responses. If you enjoy this, pls share it. Thanks!
daviddault.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-fuck-...