The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement.
But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.
The journal I co-edit - The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion - has an open call for papers on “Silence as Resistance.” The details are here:
bit.ly/4vnG64Z
Feel free to get in touch if you have an idea you'd like to discuss. We're keen to support new authors!
The journal I co-edit - The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion - has an open call for papers on “Silence as Resistance.” The details are here:
bit.ly/4vnG64Z
Feel free to get in touch if you have an idea you'd like to discuss. We're keen to support new authors!
i have one work in progress and two in retrogress
if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things
I’m so excited to be covered by a union contract for the first time in my life.
I’m tenured so my raise is mostly wiped out by dues. But we got the bottom quarter of our unit a 14% raise. Protections for academic freedom and shared governance. Promotion paths and multi-year contracts for lecturers
what bugs me most about the $2/word model is it makes all words equal when clearly there are $3 words and $1 words and some that should be thrown in for free
I interviewed Dr. Tisa Wenger about her great new book, “Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion.” Check it out
the most annoying shift in my academic career
Book contract: signed!
The Cambridge Companion to Political Theology, coming soon(ish) to bookstores near you. I'm *very* excited...
Book contract: signed!
The Cambridge Companion to Political Theology, coming soon(ish) to bookstores near you. I'm *very* excited...
smite my enemies & make my vats brim over with new wine? 🙏
The first episode of Reign of Error is here! Trump Year One: The War on Civil Rights, with @antheabutler.bsky.social. Give it a listen and spread the word!
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Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
It was beautiful to be with the best of Tallahassee today, protesting at the Florida Capitol. The vibes were good, but the anger is fierce.
It was beautiful to be with the best of Tallahassee today, protesting at the Florida Capitol. The vibes were good, but the anger is fierce.
the way to tell whether a person is credible is by *listening to what they say* and checking it against verifiable facts. The idea that you can bypass this with some value-neutral procedure is asinine if you think about it for two seconds and also the guiding ideology of 99% of American elites.
I have a new piece out in the Political Theology Network: "There is Power in Negative Political Theology."
It's the first piece in a symposium on Critical Political Theology, together with King-Ho Leung and Jenny Leith. You can find it here!
politicaltheology.com/there-is-pow...
I’m excited to see this in print! The first fruits of a very profitable stay at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Many thanks to them. I also have learned much from @dnewheiser.bsky.social whose careful probing of certain modes of speech has refined my own thought. Thank you!
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
The Journal of Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity has just published my dialogue with Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social on peaceful speech and political conflict. Since calls for civility are often weaponized, it was a gift to think this through with someone from whom I have learned so much
I'm BACK on New Books in Secularism, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, joined by @dnewheiser.bsky.social to talk about his book "Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding" (Bloomsbury, 2025). Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/art-making-a...
once again i'm googling "is 'sanction' good or bad"
Measles may have been spread at a Noah’s Ark-themed creationist museum in Kentucky earlier this week, the state’s health authority said.
misty Tallahassee morning
misty Tallahassee morning
Christmas light
Accurate. I haven't heard *one single* pitch for "AI" in education that isn't one of these three: 1) It's inevitable so hop on board; 2) Employers want to know prospectives can use it; 3) We must stop it from hurting our students by training them in it. None promise better educational outcomes.