These are his author copies - I think it’ll officially be released in a few weeks

A beautiful new book with a blue cover that says: Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean: Social Life Under Empire by Philip A. Harland

@philharland.bsky.social ‘s book has arrived!

book cover Beyond Sanctuary The Humanism of a World in Motion

Migration, Borders, and Solidarity in Transatlantic Perspective

April 20, 6pm

Join our panel debate with Ananya Roy (UCLA), Veronika Zablotsky (FU), Manuela Bojadžjiev (HU) & @vethompson.bsky.social (Queen‘s) at Refugio Berlin (Lenaustr. 3)

www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/events/20...

Do not remember me as disaster nor as the keeper of secrets I am a fellow rider in the cattle cars watching you move slowly out of my bed saying we cannot waste time only ourselves.

Audre Lorde

Ohh yes! Correct date - but WEDNESDAY!!

LATER THIS MONTH!!!

Join Madeline Vosch and me for this discussion about our books.

“The Uneasy Lives of Saints: A Conversation on After Transformation and Undead.” April 29th at Harvard’s CSWR and by zoom. Register here for zoom: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/...

So many great people here. And you are of course legendary in these here parts!

The Privilege of Being Banal France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background a...

Great book on this: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Historical Talmud — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW We may, in fact, be approaching a moment when historical literacy—much like philology—ought to be regarded as a basic expectation of rigorous scholarship on the Talmud. If so, the question before us…

Simcha Gross shares insights into Talmud scholarship and the shift toward historical considerations. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...

Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity

🗣️ new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity! 🗣️

@monikaamsler.bsky.social's EDUCATION IN RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS OF LATE ANTIQUITY

⚡⚡⚡ free through April 8! ⚡⚡⚡

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The goal is the annihilation of history, identity, human dignity.

Powerful stuff from our students:

"AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."

Come listen to me and @antiquitypod.bsky.social talk about ancient Palestine & the Levant for an hour!

Key topics:
- What does the word "Palestine" refer to?
- How do we deal with the complexity of west Asian history & empires vying for the region?
- What's "biblical archaeology" doing?

Oooh even better

Love the chair!

@greggiven.bsky.social I see your like, and I know your (more) catastrophic sleep loss better reasons!

Ugh yes

I really feel that it’s a privilege to get older, but I think I would be able to enjoy that privilege more if my sleep wasn’t so catastrophically disturbed by things like “it got a little warmer outside.”

Res Diff 2.2 (2025) Special Issue: “Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives”Guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells. Cover Image: Evan Shannon, Αυτοχθων Ashley Lance and Tara Wells, Introducing Rez Diff: Indigenous Pers…

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal, Res Diff 2.2 (2025).

"Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives," guest-edited by Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells.

#OpenAccess

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Epic Fury: Donald Trump, Israel's Iran strike is righteous | The Jerusalem Post Donald Trump’s Iran war, Operation Epic Fury, is absolutely and fantastically righteous, as is Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion. Today, both the Persian and Jewish people celebrate a Purim miracle.

Yep, zero need for Religious Studies classes to help our students operate with a deeper understanding of our present world and how religious history and scriptures shape identities and actions
www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

TORNEY GEN THLTEXAS KEN PAXΤΟΝ ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 2, 2026 www.texasattorneygeneral.gov Communications@oag.texas.gov Attorney General Ken Paxton Issues Landmark Legal Opinion Declaring It Illegal for Mental Health Providers to "Transition" Texas Kids AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a legal opinion declaring that the prohibitions under S.B. 14 making it illegal for health care providers to "transition" kids does apply to "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. The opinion notes that the Council's licensees constitute health care providers under the law, which makes clear that they are governed by state law barring funds going to those who facilitate the prohibited "transition" procedures. Licensees are defined as "health care providers" in this sense for good reason, as the path to kids being "transitioned" often starts with unethical indoctrination by activists providing mental "health care" designed to confuse children about their gender. Thus, the Legislature's prohibition on those unlawfully "transitioning" our kids which covers not only any person or entity who "provides" medical interventions, but also an individual or entity who "facilitates" medical interventions certainly applies to licensed mental health care providers. "Any radical facilitating the 'transitioning' of our kids is committing child abuse," said Attorney General Paxton. "The law is clear that these radical procedures are illegal and in no world should Texans' tax dollars be used to permanently harm children. This opinion should send a clear warning there will be consequences for any medical professional, whether a doctor or a therapist, who is illegally 'transitioning' Texas kids." The opinion's summary states: "Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child's sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those e…

2. AG Paxton of Texas announced a new interpretation of state law that would extend the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors to mental health providers, declaring that any therapist who affirms a trans youth's identity is "facilitating" illegal treatment and committing child abuse.

Here's the recording for the book launch of our second 4T book. Hear Fabien Muller and Aaron Johnson discuss Porphyry, theology, theurgy, and more!

Inside the Body of Black Feminism: Science, Race, Culture

Everything is the worst rn. Work keeps on keeping on. Support research in feminist and ethnic studies (not necessarily mine). If you are inclined: PREORDER dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b... Discount code E26PINTO @dukepress.bsky.social

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Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 34, No.1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56477 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.