Ohio’s public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 Ohio colleges and universities are required to cut any undergrad degree programs that produce on average less than five degrees annually over a three-year period.

Public universities in Ohio eliminate a large number of programs

I hope that students will consider Butler University in the next state over, where we highly value the things state universities are abandoning…

Vatican: Pope Prays for Heavenly Blessings and Peace for the Iraqi People » Iraqi News Agency Baghdad-INA Pope Leo XIV expressed his appreciation and gratitude on Tuesday for the gift presented to him by Rami Joseph Aghajan, Head of the Office of Christian, Yazidi, and Mandaean Religious…

Mandaeans and the pope are rarely in the same news article...

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Professor Simon Conway Morris Awarded 2026 Templeton Prize Templeton.org is in English. Only a few pages are translated into other languages.

Templeton Prize winner for 2026 announced

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The Three Major American Brands of Christian Supremacy They disagree on almost everything — except that Christians should be in charge.

The Three Major American Brands of Christian Supremacy

Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps The underlying AI features are here to stay, though

Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps | The Verge

Melania Wants a Humanoid Named Plato. As a Professor, I Have Concerns. Last Wednesday Melania Trump walked into a White House summit on educational technology with a humanoid AI robot.

Melania Wants a Humanoid Named Plato. As a Professor, I Have Concerns.

What AI Can’t Do AI may replace narrow technical skills, but the liberal arts equip students with the critical thinking employers increasingly demand.

What AI Can’t Do | Washington Monthly

Pastors who condemn what others are doing are often trying to distract from the evil that they themselves are doing

Like It or Not, AI Has Arrived in Archives. Now Is the Time for Archivists to Take the Reins. Chronic resource constraints have diminished archivists’ capacity to make primary sources legible to users. AI may intensify the crisis. But it may offer a way out.

Like It or Not, AI Has Arrived in Archives. Now Is the Time for Archivists to Take the Reins.

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Opinion | AI Is a Better Researcher Than You That claim got a political scientist denounced. Is it true?

"When it comes to AI, these tools are not going away. We’ll have to face it, and it’s better to do that in an open way rather than calling each other names on Bluesky."

- Alexander Kustov

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Trump Has a Pattern of Thinking He’s America’s Messiah This isn’t the first time he’s done this. Here are four other times Trump portrayed himself as a savior.

Sojourners on Trump's Messiah complex

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Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/plat...

Monster Theory at 30

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I remember not long ago when the expression "more Catholic than the pope" was a meaningful amusing idiom rather than a delusion of politicians...

You Don't Get to Tell the Pope What Counts as Theology A response to the men who want the church moral, but never inconvenient

Derek Penwell on those who claim to be religious, and when a leader calls them out for betraying that religion's core teachings and values, claim to be "more Catholic than the pope."

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Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won year...

NEW: Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago. @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship

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Emmaus Come risen Christ to the confused      from light to shadow and return      Come uncanny Christ seen unseen      unrecognized and with ...

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The End of an Experimental College Hampshire College and the Limits of Reinvention in American Higher Education

The End of an Experimental College

The Horses Are Coming - 3 Quarks Daily by Michael Liss

On the systemic changes needed to restore democracy

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist | WIRED

Reusing Pages of Books Parts of ancient books were recycled in a variety of different ways, but I don’t recall having seen anything quite like this before. It’s a portion of a parchment folium from a codex th…

Reusing Pages of Books brentnongbri.com/2026/03/25/r...

The Fox News Advantage: How Cable News Divides Along Religious and Generational Lines Young atheists and agnostics aren't tuning into MSNBC while young Christians still watch Fox News

The Fox News Advantage: How Cable News Divides Along Religious and Generational Lines www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/the-fox-ne...

The Foundations Of Re-Enchantment I recently came across a book that resonated with so many of my interests! This was The Foundations of Re-Enchantment: Freemasonry, Theosophy, and the

The Foundations of Re-Enchantment www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Why I Spent 90 Minutes Steaming an American Flag Yesterday I spent a good hour and a half steaming the creases out of an American flag.

Why I Spent 90 Minutes Steaming an American Flag thecorners.substack.com/p/why-i-spen...

American Dominion The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom

American Dominion kristindumez.substack.com/p/american-d...

Easter and Empire Let’s talk about Easter and Empire. More specifically, about the way the Easter story challenges the pretensions of Empire, exposing imperi...

Easter and Empire thepietythatliesbetween.blogspot.com/2026/04/east...

Uncut I remember well the first time I encountered a book with uncut pages.  It was in Edinburgh and the book was mine on inter-library loan.  This presented a dilemma: should I, a mere post-gr…

Are there people who read and research old books and yet have never happened across a book where the pages had still not been cut separate?

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The Sin Is White Supremacy: a Theological Encounter with the Film “Sinners” WHAT IS INCLUDED?

The Sin Is White Supremacy: a Theological Encounter with the Film “Sinners” www.homebrewedchristianty.com/2026/03/20/t...

Revisiting Richard Hays's Moral Vision of the New Testament New Book from Eerdmans

Revisiting Richard Hays's Moral Vision of the New Testament nijaykgupta.substack.com/p/revisiting...