Check out this series "Esther in Modernity," organized by Elena Petrova-Libgober and Dror Birger. The next is tomorrow (7/14). I'm presenting the following week (7/21) on Hegseth-adjacent Douglas Wilson, including his steampunk screenplay based on Esther. With @alexianafry.bsky.social responding.

THIS IS FOR @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social ONLY. THE SECOND AMINA AL-SIRAFI MAY BE MY FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME SO HELP ME GOD IF YOU ARE NOT WORKING ON NUMBER THREE I AM LOSING IT OVER HERE I LOVE YOU.

Video appears to show no damage to the vehicle of the man ICE killed in Houston, who had lived in America peacefully for 35 years, despite ICE's claim that he "rammed" an ICE vehicle and "tried to run over" an agent. These people are not credible.

I think Platner’s failure to formally withdraw from the race shows exactly what happens when someone says no to him.

THRILLED to have this incredible volume in my hands. Thank you to the editors, Chris Hays and @meghanhenning.bsky.social 💕

For friends attending #iSBL26: the Political Biblical Criticism section has one session tomorrow with some solid papers. Give all the kudos to Natalie Mylonas, who is chairing on behalf of the absent chairs of the unit. ✨ @sblsite.bsky.social

reread the Declaration of Independence in advance of the Fourth of July, and the list of all the injuries that the British crown inflicted on the colonists straight up reads like Trump's to-do list www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The past year and a half has been my own personal hell, but now that we’re back in the States I view much of my grief as hand-in-hand with gratitude. 🇩🇰 forever has my heart.

It's wonderful that so many notable people are rightly furious about this. But I'm frustrated for the ~30K job losses across UK HE in the last 3 years (and the research & learning loss that caused) without public outrage or sector-wide solidarity. It's not as if those losses were all justified.

Earlier this week, Intelligencer ran a piece called "ICE Won." We definitely don't agree with the title, but its gist—that the normalization of federal police violence is accelerating—is proving accurate. ICE arrests roughly doubled in Chicagoland in June over May. Some more thoughts on that:

I hope you’ll check out this new biblical studies podcast series, “Bible Divas,” featuring Drs. Angela N. Parker, Anna Sieges Beal, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, and Cynthia Shafer-Elliott. baptistnews.com/article/bng-...

As the person who called the report "diabolically evil," let me just reiterate: the report is diabolically evil. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...

My second article of 2026 is an exploration of historical memory in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE that is based on the (rarely acknowledged?) premise that the difference between two stories about the past isn't always that they are the same story with different details

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.

Thrilled to join @feministtheology.bsky.social in a little over a month to talk about how trauma hermeneutics 🤝 feminism in the book of Esther. ✨

The book is great, so I am very excited for this. I know I gave the details early doors - don't worry, we'll keep reminding you! Join the email list to receive the Zoom link: feministtheologynetwork.org. Any access needs, please get in touch and we will do our best.

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

Indeed: we are moving back to MI, where the governor has long been praised, only to see her smiling face next to Altman’s at a groundbreaking ceremony in Saline - the people did NOT want this data center and in turn were financially targeted to their peril.

'Masculinities and Trauma in Church and Theology' is the subtitle of this collection edited by @revdwillrm.bsky.social with contributions from @karenod.bsky.social, Andrew Graystone, @alexianafry.bsky.social and @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social 20% off during June: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Although it might seem as if “trauma” is something people know about, given its mass proliferation in the public, society is so vastly trauma illiterate and they see no reason to become informed because it would require significant change.

This is 14% of Lebanon's territory. Functionally indistinguishable from what Russia has done in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

Given how much completely justified disdain young people feel toward AI, it is remarkable that no struggling college has branded itself the radically anti-AI school. Instead, administrators are all pushing in the opposite direction, to forcibly integrating AI into teaching. A poverty of imagination.

In 1934 Hitler created a medal to give to everyone who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch, in case you want to know what's going to happen to all these people after Trump gives them a big check.

How the Democratic Republic of the Congo's health system — now at the center of the Ebola outbreak — changed after U.S. aid was cut, according to people who worked in the country:

Proud contributor to this volume as well! ✨✨✨

The Gideon-Abimelech cycle:

Was just informed by @katgelk.bsky.social that _From Slave to Saint: Onesimus Throughout Christian History_ now has a page on @fortresspress.bsky.social's website! Consider pre-ordering for Jan 2027 to learn more about Onesimus from the 1st–20th centuries www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵

Don't forget about us this Summer. Publish your interdisciplinary article with Avar! avarjournal.com/avar/submiss...

Will Rose-Moore has spoken to the Shiloh Project about the edited collection out next month, For Nothing is Hidden (available to pre-order now): shilohproject.blog/new-book-an-...

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Abolishing ICE is rape prevention

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Bluesky is the best platform for advertising academic books right now! After the death of Twitter, IG favors those who are skilled at short-form video content (see the amazing page of @alexianafry.bsky.social), but Bluesky spreads book news further than FB or LinkedIn ever could.

“A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.”

“Quieter methods of removal will look more like ordinary criminalization, which many people in the U.S. are conditioned to ignore. This moment is a test for our movements. Can we recognize criminalization as the primary means of human disposal under fascism and organize accordingly?”

We are thrilled with this gorgeous cover for our forthcoming book, Avoiding Antisemitism: A Guide for Christians! Thanks to the team at @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social for making it happen (again!) @evandeneykel.bsky.social @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social

More and more colleges and universities are cutting Religious Studies, just as current events make it more and more obvious how necessary Religious Studies education is to understand today's world.

Presenting a paper online today at 2:30pm for the centre of Muslim-Christian studies: “Renegotiating Armageddon: The Failure of Evangelical Apocalypticism During the Iraq War (2003-2011) and its Impact on the Iran War (2026–)” Sign up below for the link www.cmcsoxford.org.uk/cmcs-news/a-...

Reading Esther Keeps the Score in a group this Summer? Send me a message - I'd love to do Q&A for your crew!

Happy end-of-the-semester to those who are currently celebrating! Working on something you want to submit to Avar? Let us know how we can help.

If you've never been directly involved in Cuba solidarity you couldn't find a better time than right now. Cuba needs a lot of creativity, support, and care from abroad, more than ever. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

There is a direct correlation between the current "ICE is Nice" campaign and folks who love this cruelty (empathy is a sin crowd) who argued during the Minneapolis raids that they were losing "the media war."

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.