“For the 2nd time in 6 weeks, a pastor was struck w a pepper round fired by a U.S. immigration agent as faith leaders protested the administration’s deportation efforts. Rev. Jorge Bautista was one of dozens of demonstrators who had gathered before sunrise Thursday.” religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...

In this response post, @dramycarr.bsky.social tests Springs’s transformative theory of justice and reconciliation by drawing on a story of corruption and reconciliation from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

@derosejason.bsky.social - thanks for this story! Pope Leo's Augustinian order is seeing a 'Leo bump' www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...

The mantras that have been circulating in my thoughts since January: trust and truth. How to cultivate them, even when both are under attack?

This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.

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An astute and timely commentary and ethical analysis by one of my former professors of Judaism. evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/a-jewish-def...

Activist-scholar Jason Springs immersed himself in justice organizations in Chicago. He offers an account of their peace circles and the hope they cultivate. Review by @dramycarr.bsky.social. (@nyupress.bsky.social) www.christiancentury.org/books/lived-...

Like this shouldn’t be a controversial statement. I don’t want a Dem admin telling Liberty University what it can teach either….

Grateful for my doctoral education amid the intellectual intensity of the University of Chicago Divinity School.

This publication is a collection of reflections from 12 gender justice advocates,who have contributed toward the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action.Three of the profiled individuals were part of the LWF delegation at the conference. lutheranworld.org/resources/pu...

“We reject attempts to dismantle this country’s life-saving refugee resettlement program, to withhold protection to asylum seekers fleeing violence & persecution, to deny immigrants & refugees in our communities access to basic support, & to send families back into danger.” lamaz.org/news-blog/el...

An interesting article about just how often generative AI is incorrect with news and citations. It can cull/create patterns, but without embodied human testing of the meaningfulness of those patterns with regard to the realities they are describing. www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Some 1949 wisdom from H. A. Overstreet from his book The Mature Man - an excerpt from his depiction of a not mature man. The friend who shared this thought it depicted Trump quite well.

Proud of the ELCA, keep up the good fight!

There's an incredibly strong connection between educational attainment and interpersonal trust. Among people who have a graduate degree, 56% say that "people can generally be trusted." Among those who went no further than high school, it's just 19%.

A commentary on the value of #librarians by friend and retired librarian and English prof Bill Thompson: www.tspr.org/tspr-comment...

For anyone interested in listening in to my contribution to Emory's Kessler Conversation series on "Justification and Justice: Sixteen Century Texts and Twenty-First Century Politics," see pitts-emory.libwizard.com/f/conversati...

So much insightful commentary tucked into Andrei Desnitsky's dips into history--with Russian Christians as only one intended audience in this critique of the tug to love tradition and empire as the only valid means to or medium of connection to the divine. publicorthodoxy.org/good-reads/t...

First thought during the American Academy of Religion meeting: in the humanities, we are always still learning to speak, to create words for what is and for what can be