SAT 11/22 at 12:30pm | Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai. papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Uhh I didn't need to know the Pope was hot in 1982. Why did you burden me with this sexy knowledge

This is a very fine department and the suspension of the single honours programme in Theology and Religion is an extremely serious blow. Please consider signing this petition.

I'm featured in Publisher's Weekly in the ramp-up to the #AARSBL book panel. If you're in Boston for the annual meeting, please come by.

New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.

I know a number of us are joy-scrolling today, so here's a bit more encouragement: two lovely letters responding to my piece in the Tampa Bay Times defending the humanities.

I know a number of us are joy-scrolling today, so here's a bit more encouragement: two lovely letters responding to my piece in the Tampa Bay Times defending the humanities.

Beauty at the beach: St. Teresa, Nov 2025

Beauty at the beach: St. Teresa, Nov 2025

Yesterday my #FSU class on Religion & Democracy hosted Albie Sachs - anti-apartheid activist and former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. My students rose to the occasion with questions that were perceptive and profound. I was so proud and impressed by them!

Yesterday my #FSU class on Religion & Democracy hosted Albie Sachs - anti-apartheid activist and former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. My students rose to the occasion with questions that were perceptive and profound. I was so proud and impressed by them!

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

At the State Capitol yesterday for Hands Across The Land: an interfaith prayer vigil to protest the Everglades detention center. >Defend the Sacred. Return the land.< Thanks for Betty Osceola, Capital Area Justice Ministry, and the Tallahassee Green Faith Alliance for their leadership!

Yunmen (d. 949 CE; founder of Yunmen school of Chan Buddhism under Tang Dynasty): “when walking, just walk.” Me, literally reading this while walking the dog: “omg so true”

At the State Capitol yesterday for Hands Across The Land: an interfaith prayer vigil to protest the Everglades detention center. >Defend the Sacred. Return the land.< Thanks for Betty Osceola, Capital Area Justice Ministry, and the Tallahassee Green Faith Alliance for their leadership!

Wow, over lunch at this event, I was chatting with a woman and she mentioned how she failed Mississippi's "literacy" test 3 times, keeping her from the vote Just now I learned there are a couple people here who integrated their schools This ain't ancient history y'all

I have an oped in today's Tampa Bay Times: "The humanities deserve Florida’s public support. Democracy depends on it." www.yahoo.com/news/article... "This is the beauty of public universities like Florida State: they give everyone the opportunity to cultivate intellectual freedom."

IMO the media is oversaturated with people who have a poli sci 101 understanding of voting. A little bit of spatial voting here, median voter theorem here — just pull on the lever marked "moderate" and you can win more votes. I think the reality of voter behavior is much more complicated than this.

#NoKings Tallahassee: tactical cuteness: tons anti-fascist grandmothers: many attendance: 7,600 (3.6% of our population) terrorists? don't be ridiculous Thanks to all who made it happen! @aflcio.org @indivisible.org @indivisibletlh.bsky.social @aclufl.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social etc.

#NoKings Tallahassee: tactical cuteness: tons anti-fascist grandmothers: many attendance: 7,600 (3.6% of our population) terrorists? don't be ridiculous Thanks to all who made it happen! @aflcio.org @indivisible.org @indivisibletlh.bsky.social @aclufl.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social etc.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet" www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

If you want to have something interesting to say, study the humanities!

If you want to have something interesting to say, study the humanities!

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

creating a demand for my writing through artificial scarcity

VT just closed its religious studies department.

“Syracuse University paused admission to 20 majors in the College of Arts and Sciences without faculty input” dailyorange.com/2025/09/coll...

this exists it is called thinking

"what are your research plans for the upcoming year" have you never heard of the evil eye

In London last week, I remembered what it's like to live on foot. There's magic in the spaces in-between, which one can only see while walking. American politics has many pathologies, but some (I suspect) stem from cities made for cars rather than people...

In London last week, I remembered what it's like to live on foot. There's magic in the spaces in-between, which one can only see while walking. American politics has many pathologies, but some (I suspect) stem from cities made for cars rather than people...

Whenever I see a TV news clip now, I feel like I'm watching the opening scenes of a zombie movie where the broadcasters are "getting reports of individuals acting in a disturbing fashion" right before the apocalypse breaks out

the numinous normal (Oxford, 2025)

Oxford glow

Oxford at dusk

sarcastic Mary / London religion

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political theology in the field: Labor Day / #NoKings

pro-worker, #NoKings: Labor Day in Tallahassee solidarity > tyranny! @aflcio.org @uff-fsu.bsky.social @indivisible.org @indivisibletlh.bsky.social

This beautiful book is now out! It's freely available as an open-access ebook from @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social (thanks to funding from @templetonrelig.bsky.social). You can download it here: bit.ly/AMSP2025 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

This beautiful book is now out! It's freely available as an open-access ebook (thanks to funding from @templetonrelig.bsky.social): www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

.....two weeks ago there were radioactive wasps....today there are radioactive shrimp.....which part of the animal kingdom is gonna be radioactive tomorrow

Well, UChicago has paused new PhD admissions in my department now, too. One of the flagship departments for anthropology in the US and worldwide. This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?

Who had "radioactive wasps" on their apocalypse bingo card?

me: please i need to sleep my new sleeping pill: ok but your body can’t know about it tomorrow

I'm definitely borrowing some of these ideas (with attribution)!

quiet scenes on the Panhandle coast