And don't forget this classic! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Syracuse U̶n̶i̶v̶e̶r̶s̶i̶t̶y̶.

I would read an annotated version of today's proceedings with annotations done by all of the scholars of religion who couldn't get jobs in the past few decades because it wasn't relevant.

Politicians and police fighting poverty by destroying encampments.

If a billionaire spoke at my funeral, I would literally come back to life so I could die of shame.

Boston College's Clough School of Theology & Ministry invites applications for a TT position in New Testament! @bostoncollege.bsky.social www.higheredjobs.com/state/detail...

I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books. Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday. Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.

but i don't want to wear baggy jeans again.

Modern-day Christian divination at work! www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-lea...

Don't mean to brag, but I've just received a promotion from merely a parent of a volleyball player to *The Parent Rep* for my daughter's volleyball team!

"If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?" Ta-Nehisi Coates www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Recalling fondly that I once had a boss who consistently called 'touchstones' 'touchtones.' Beep boop.

Um, art imitates life much? "The novel follows two magicians, doctoral candidates, who must venture into hell to save their thesis advisor in order to get letters of recommendation."

19 years ago I had to lead a seminar on *Theology and Social Theory*, so you can imagine the joy I felt today when I discovered that Durham University recently created a Duns Scotus Chair in Franciscan Studies! www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

It's my favourite time of year - when I'm not paying for heat or a/c!

One of the most hotly anticipated biblical studies books of 2025 drops today! Mark Goodacre's *The Fourth Synoptic Gospel John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.* @goodacre.bsky.social @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social www.eerdmans.com/978080287513...

UCLouvain seeks to recruit a full-time academic in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts. jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

Not the most important difference between Canada and the USA in these hard times, but a spot of humo(u)r.

It's also "political violence" to steal years off people's lives by depriving them of shelter, stripping away health care, and gutting environmental protections — while funneling more and more wealth to the ultra-rich.

Apply for the 2026 Life Worth Living Fellowship The LWL Network offers fellowships to encourage undergrad education on enduring questions about the shape of a flourishing life. lifeworthliving.yale.edu/fellowship Applications due December 1, 2025 Award decisions by February 2, 2026

An important article on the Province of Ontario's long neglect of higher education. Does anyone care? Will anyone do something before it's too late?

I'm gonna need this shirt.

Biblical Studies Job opening: Hebrew Bible @britedivinity.bsky.social!

If you haven't read @janemayer.bsky.social's *Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right*, you probably should. I'm late to it (it came out in 2016) but it seems ever more timely.

Counting verses in first-year Hebrew, but yes.

Jesus: "A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ He answered, ‘I will not’; but later he changed his mind and went. he father went to the second and said the same; and he answered, ‘I go, sir’; but he did not go."

This is a turning point for me. I am even more convinced that the USA needs proper gun control.

Students on Rate My Professor.

Job Openings! Columbia Theological Seminary invites applications for *two* full-time tenure-track faculty appointments in Old Testament. More info here: www.ctsnet.edu/careers/

You know it's bad in academia when good news is absolutely gutting.

New unjust war theory just dropped.

I watched *Don't Look Up* with students in late January this year and kept thinking 'OK, this is stupid and way too over the top.' And then MAGA 2.0 dropped and made *Don't Look Up* seem timid by comparison.

America: ~50,000 gun deaths a year. MAGA: "Let's get rid of vaccines."

I never could have anticipated just how much anxiety 12-year old girls volleyball would cause me.

I'm sorry but this station wagon *is* one of the finer things in life.

Delighted to get my copy of @paultsloan.bsky.social's Jesus and the Law of Moses.

New book: David Lincicum, The Commentarial Impulse Interpretation and Actualization in the Pauline Tradition. @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social www.eerdmans.com/978080288420...

The evening before the first day of classes and emotions are running very high in our house - denial, pain, rage, grief. And my kids aren't handling it much better than me.

Farewell, summer. You were beautiful.

EITHER Americans have proven themselves incapable of the responsible use of guns and are significantly more immoral than other countries (an argument I am definitely willing to consider!) OR it's the guns.

Conservative American Christians' "Thoughts and prayers" while doing nothing to support real gun control is the new "Keep warm and well fed." It is religious faith without works, and as James 2:16 rightly says, "It's dead."

Don't yuck someone's yum, but also

Everything is religious? Wrong! Everything is a relationship.

Begging university endowments to exit the AI bubble before it's too late.

Admin @dalhousieu.bsky.social has made its most reckless decision in 23 years. The consequences will be felt for many years to come. Meanwhile, faculty will fight to #keepdalstrong

Exhibit 999,999 for why it is wild that universities are shutting down religious studies departments.