I'm not usually very interested in what Modern Theology publishes, but this looks like it will be a fascinating special issue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Five years ago @univpressofkansas.bsky.social published a book on this very topic, though at the time it was about strengthening the administrative state. The notion that it would need to be protected from the other branches wasn’t (yet) on our minds. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700632077/

Job Alert: tenure-track position in Theological Ethics at the rank of assistant professor to begin in the fall semester of 2027, in the Dept. of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Please share widely!

This makes absolutely no sense.

subtle.

This is a bright red alarm. No hyperbole. Deserves to be read and shared widely.

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

🧵 Some context: I worked for years to pass the First Step Act. Short form: Several petitioners suggested that you could use the "Compassionate Relief" portion of the FSA to earn relief for people who would have gotten relief from the bill had they been lucky enough to be convicted after passage

I had lost so much desire to watch the French Open with Alcaraz out, but with Sinner’s shocking loss I’m right back in!

👉 Read the review in the Journal of Iowa Archaeology Society on the book A New History of Iowa by Jeff Bremer, and learn more about the book here: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635566/ #Iowa #IowaHistory #BookReview #IowaArcheology #UPKansas

Someone has finally put into words why I so disliked Pluribus. It’s a relentlessly antisocialist, antiutopian, centrist message. This piece by @annaleen.bsky.social is a great read. flaminghydra.com/issue-572/?a...

This is partly why I recommend the book Pleasure Activism everywhere I go.

We are not a serious country

New book from @rutgersupress.bsky.social advocating for better language around vasectomies to increase reproductive justice. A perfect antidote to the terrible @christianitytoday.com article that includes some of the worst rhetoric about vasectomies I've ever seen.

Anyone else getting The Stand vibes from this story?

A reminder that there are still many good things happening here.

Matt Novenson wrote me about this article saying I am the only theologian he knows who has positively and constructively engaged with PWJ research. That seems incredible to me, but it might be true. DBH says many of the same things but doesn’t engage their work. Anyone I’m missing?

If this is a clever way for Fortune to get more popular support for Mamdani, mission accomplished!

Can’t wait to watch these.

The reward for finishing my grading this week will be reading this.

literally the whole plot of Animal Farm

It appears Pope Leo’s first encyclical, focused on AI, will drop May 25: www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Time to start gathering my materials for next year’s iteration of my Christian nationalism course.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

The UNC Board of Trustees is consistently terrible. I feel so sorry for students and faculty there. www.dailytarheel.com/article/unc-...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Finally, Ronald Reagan can rest in peace, knowing that children will no longer have to learn that some white people were the bad guys in that whole slavery thing.

I had my Christian Nationalism and American Politics students do a final project analyzing one or more of Trump's EOs in light of the Christian supremacist theologians and theorists we've covered this term. So far they are all knocking this one out of the park. It's wonderful to see.

I suspect Democrats want Vance out in full force as well.

Ugh, there are new banners on Department of Transportation building. And to be clear, 250 is the wrong number of years to go with "one nation under God." That's only been in Pledge for 72 years (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/70-years-u...). But I guess that's too much nuance for the reality TV guy.

Anything from Julia Azari is worth reading. This is a good analysis.

Just as a reminder, the history of epidemics are filled with antisemitic accusations of blame, dating as far back as the 14thC. plague.

Speaking of these 6 languages in particular...I've been informed that Eerdmans will be publishing a paperback version of Eastern Christianity: A Reader. Hopefully this makes it more affordable and accessible as a textbook option, and it looks like it might be available for the fall semester!

I have a new article out on the relation between critical biblical studies and the recent Christologies of Bruce McCormack and Paul DeHart. Let me know if you can't access it and would like a copy. My thanks to @collincornell.bsky.social, Clay Mock, and others. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

Severe Weather Outbreak, Including Tornadoes, Possible Beginning This Weekend In The Plains weather.com/storms/sever...

Alan really gets at it here:

My new book, Poly Theology: In Praise of Unnatural Love, now has a cover! Publication scheduled for March/April 2027. open.substack.com/pub/polytheo...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Of course a country run by an organized crime ring would harbor politicians engaged in organized crime.

I wish more evangelicals recognized this for what it is: class warfare by the wealthy against the rest. Trump just wants to destroy the welfare state any way he can. Framing this as an attack on religious colleges misdiagnoses the problem, and therefore misunderstands who their allies should be.

As much as I’d like “such great heights” or “wake up” to be the song, I think it has to be “get low.”

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Cannot recommend the historical perspective provided by @pemalevy.bsky.social strongly enough: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).