Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take." Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

CBP reported to be coming to Raleigh tomorrow. Here's the Siembra NC hotline. Please share widely.

NC voters didn’t want the election denier as the state AG so Trump did what Trump does. www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

Delighted to announce that the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill is searching for a new colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Religion and Science. You can find more information below. Please share widely and feel free to reach out directly with questions.

Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)

Something I wrote on the occasion of the retirement of Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America for the past 30 years.

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

We’re living in a world that defies any single adjective as it has been beyond comprehension. Reflecting on what has been and what is going on, I wrote this piece. Thank you @mpgphd.bsky.social @religiondispatches.org for this opportunity! religiondispatches.org/charlie-kirk...

I'm thrilled that my book is coming out this month, and even more thrilled to be on this fall lineup from @dukepress.bsky.social - so many amazing authors and titles! Check out the whole fall lineup here: dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/n...

Starred Review of Wakara’s America from @publisherswkly.bsky.social. www.publishersweekly.com/9781541602595

Disappointed 2 see this. In response 2 the tribe’s Supreme Court decision that Freedman descendants can enroll, Muscogee Nation will stop issuing citizenship cards 4 everyone. Like how @ the end of segregation rather than integrate public pools many communities just got rid of them.

Survey stakes are in the ground at the San Rafael Valley, where DHS is preparing to wall off the last best corridor in Arizona for jaguars, ocelots & other species. Not a soul in sight.

A great article came out last year about how crypto trading apps trick users into what is--in essence--gambling by telling them they're *really smart* for "investing" AI is the same. Sells the fantasy of hyper-efficiency. Convinces users they're mastering cutting-edge tech by "prompt engineering"

“I support immigrants who do it the right way and follow the legal process?” So, how do you feel about ICE mostly arresting people in courthouses when they come for scheduled appointments in…you know…the legal process?

The killer is consistently described in the press as “a devout Christian who opposed abortion” as if that’s an essential trait of devout Christians. Many, if not most, “devout” Christians support abortion access. Melissa Hortman was a Catholic who taught Sunday school.

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

from a UNC Trustee: “It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one.” so telling that he doesn’t see faculty as professionals entitled to the promotion structures outlined in our job contracts. we’re kids demanding treats.

On the one hand, it seems bad that the leader of the free world spent the day tweeting about Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift. On the other hand, this is gonna make it easier to get my summer concerts reimbursed as research, so…

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

On this day in 1899, a white mob in Lee County, Georgia, lynched a Black man named Mitchell Daniel for “talking too much” about the brutal lynching of another Black man days earlier.

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Hurting farmers *and* the needy in one fell swoop. And for what?

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

For $60, you can donate a Trump Bible to Oklahoma schools religionnews.com/2025/03/07/s...

As a professor & a Jew I’m sick to my heart about the attack on Columbia—which is a) escalation of the war on all of higher ed; b) Jew-washing fascism, with the intention of inciting more antisemitism, which in turn will be used as cover for more fascism.

Best description and takedown

Starting this Monday at La Sal del Rey in Hidalgo County, historians, faith leaders, and descendants will embark on a 60-mile walk to bring attention to the Underground Railroad to Mexico and will commemorate that country's role in the underground walk to freedom. 🗃️ www.axios.com/2025/02/22/u...

I'm genuinely disheartened by the lack of reviews/coverage for "Eyes on the Prize III," which premieres on HBO tonight. Sigh. This is, I guess, a "me" problem. But nothing you could watch this week is better. Anyway... ICYMI, my review:

New version of the Art of the Deal just dropped. #FunWithPhotoshop

Excited to kick off a term on the AAR North American Religions Unit Steering Committee by sharing its 2025 CFP. Proposals due March 3rd. Spread the word!

Happy book publication day! Writing and researching Unforgettable Sacrifice was a journey. I am forever grateful to my family and community kinskeepers who inspired the book and ensured that I narrated their past with accuracy, dignity, and respect. 1/3

It's a lot easier to break things than build them. And the Trump administration's promises to restart USAID money to lifesaving medical efforts appear to be empty. @christianitytoday.com reports: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...

Still struggling to grasp the fact that a reality show and a Marvel movie did more to undo American democracy than the entire Cold War

The ASCH forum on Heathen, from the Jan 2024 conference, is live on Church History. Open access! @kecarte.bsky.social’s intro: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh’s response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @mbaysa.bsky.social’s response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

all NYT religion pieces are basically the same: religion is just christianity, and whoever’s writing has discovered some aspect of christian theology that 2000ish years of theologians somehow missed. ps: it’s called “theodicy,” ross. there’s a whole name for it.

I join these courageous Jewish voices against ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Biden and Harris also asked Egypt to take in Gazans as they funded the relentless bombing of women and children in Gaza, clearing the path for their erasure as a people. This is not partisan. It is foundational to our humanity.

Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social is out in the world! ✨

Similarly, Aimé Césaire, in _Discourse on Colonialism_, drew the line directly from the colonizer mentalité to fascism, arguing fascism was the inevitable result of violent imperial racism. Hitler, he argued, wasn't an innovator per se; he simply turned colonizer logic on Europeans themselves.

Glad to be included alongside @natboundunbound.bsky.social in the article published by @typewriterninja.bsky.social at @usatoday.com on the history of Indigenous enslavement and the two projects chronicling this phenomenon www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

for the love of Heaven can we not pretend JD Vance’s attempts to cosplay at parsing Catholic doctrine merit more than “aw diddums he wants to play ball with the big guys”? he does not have the chops. tell him to get back to you when he can decline ordo ordonis in the plural and bounce

Union general William Tecumseh Sherman didn't 'burn the South down' or 'destroy the South.' He destroyed the Confederacy's capacity to make war and in the process liberated upwards of 20,000 enslaved people. Distinctions matter. 🗃️

There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.

“Pop-Tart Potlatch: Sacrifice, Feasting, and Resurrection in American Intercollegiate Athletics” - In this essay I will…

I always love to hear endorsements like this!