After a busy couple of months that had me writing in places other than Substack, I am back to doing my weekly essays. This one is an overview of some of the core terms I use in my thinking. I welcome your feedback! https://daviddault.substack.com/p/keywords

Wonderful to see @daultradio.bsky.social’s book in print. It’s a slim but weighty work.

The draft of the proposal is now complete. 8,268 words, around 30 pages. The final manuscript is scheduled at this point tobe 75,000 words, or about 300 pages. Really happy with how it hangs together.

Grateful!

Working on another book proposal. This one is for a more philosophical project. Working title is Synodality, Subsidiarity, Solidarity: An Essay on the Church in the Third Millennium. I’m in that wonderful phase where the energy is good, and I am very excited. More details to come!

Can we start calling it the Ba’alroom now?

One might ask: What is a 25th Amendment even for?

Last night in class, the students and I took an entire hour to discuss one sentence from M. Shawn Copeland’s book, Enfleshing Freedom. That, my friends, is graduate school. If this sounds like fun to you, come work with us at Loyola Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies!

We interview our own David Dault @daultradio.bsky.social, who has been recording and editing us since the beginning of our podcast. He’s so much more than our recording engineer: he’s a theologian, a professor, an author, a husband, a father and a great friend. Check out his book and our interview.

How do we react when the Bible become an "accessory" to crimes of violence? That's just one of the questions in today's episode of @deaconspod.bsky.social in which the Paulist Deacon Affiliates interview @daultradio.bsky.social about his book "The Accessorized Bible" from @yalepress.bsky.social:

I am so grateful for this chance to talk to my beloved friends, the Paulist deacons, about my book, the #AccessorizedBible

Thank you Yale Center for Faith and Culture for this wonderful conversation about my book, the #AccessorizedBible faith.yale.edu/media/the-ac...

As I was sitting in a meeting this morning, I figured out a new way to map some tensions I am seeing. I would love to get your feedback and suggestions. Thank you! https://daviddault.substack.com/p/a-new-quadrilateral

Occasionally reminded that Georgia added a “post tenure review” process bc they were so certain that professors became deadweight once they had job security, and all the outcomes have proven JUST THE OPPOSITE! People work harder and in more complex ways when they feel secure in their employment.

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Our society is so fixated on sexual violence, and yet so unwilling to examine the underlying attitudes that produce it. If you don't eliminate misogyny and patriarchy, you will never stop the violent symptoms they inexorably produce.

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

“…the Epstein files highlight issues that women in academe have mostly discussed in whisper networks: Who is unsafe to be alone with? Which advisers are to be avoided? Whose connections may come with a price?” www.chronicle.com/article/unma...

Lots of good quotes here, and I think if anything good comes out of this awfulness it will perhaps be academics rethinking our reflexive obeisance to prestige and wealth. "...the notion of the meritocracy is completely revealed to be gendered bullshit.” - @dannagal.bsky.social

the AIs are attractive because of what education has become in the US

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome. www.neh.gov/grants/resea... #Sinology 🀄️📚

STARTS TODAY (Monday, March 2) - There is still time to sign up for this Lenten lecture series on Queer Theology in the spirit of Pope Francis. Link is in the comments - Please join us!

If anyone is interested in the keynote I gave at the AJCU conference in Tucson last week, I have posted it here. It’s long and weird, and I would love to hear your thoughts. https://daviddault.substack.com/p/framing-artificial-intelligence-in

Freinds - Please consider signing up for this 4-part Lenten lecture series on Queer theology. FULLY ONLINE! It's $50 for the whole thing. Please pass this info along to folks that you think might benefit - thank you! Here's the registration page: https://tinyurl.com/Dignified2026

Hey, good people. I will be delivering an online lecture series every Monday evening in March: “Dignified Agency: Queer Theology in the Spirit of Pope Francis.” I hope you will consider joining, Thank you! https://epay.luc.edu/C20996_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=7717&SINGLESTORE=true

A friend of mine from college is/was the "Fuck You" Dad, and he has learned some great stuff about virality...

A year ago I had a post “go viral,” getting millions of views and engagements. My latest essay talks about that — how I did it, and more importantly, why. I welcome your thoughts and responses. If you enjoy this, pls share it. Thanks! https://daviddault.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-fuck-you-dad

Our latest review from @drbobcornwall.bsky.social covers the ethical implications of how we use scripture as explored in @daultradio.bsky.social’s new book “The Accessorized Bible” (@yalepress.bsky.social).

Review: "The Accessorized Bible" by @daultradio.bsky.social (@yalepress.bsky.social). Bibles are books serving as platforms, communities, & accessories requiring moral seriousness and an ethical mindset. www.bobcornwall.com/2026/02/the-... #ccdoc #booksky #theosky @erbks.bsky.social

In this week’s essay, I am grappling with the ways that our long American history of violent colonialism is coming home to roost. I hope you read it, and I hope you share it. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Thank you. https://daviddault.substack.com/p/rogue-empire

🎙️ New episode drop! Nat, Bethany, and Jon are joined by @daultradio.bsky.social for a rich, thoughtful conversation about his book The Accessorized Bible (published by @yalepress.bsky.social and available now). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Well, if woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again.” -Sojourner Truth, 1851

It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to - create safe spaces - protect schools - get kids TO school - check on neighbors - deliver groceries - help pay the rent - let people know of danger - feed the helpers, too! - and on and on

Adding the first woman’s name to a list that starts at 597 AD. Does that matter? Yeah, it does.

ICE just stole a person from my town. They did it too quickly for activists to mobilize, but we're still fighting. I can't be on the streets for medical reasons so I'm doing quieter work like going to school board meetings and donating supplies and $ to activists and the families of the victims.

And also, ICE is doing much of their kidnappings not in big cities but in suburbs and rural communities. There's a pretty good chance that they're near your city right now snatching people. Minneapolis is on the news, but 90% of ICE isn't. Get involved in your own community NOW.

Yeah, so Collins told Trump this could cost her re-election, so they just pulled back, because they know that removing dangerous people from the country was never really the mission, it was always just about terrorizing anyone who stood up to Trump.

This week’s essay is a little weird. I’m trying to extend some of the ideas I had in The Accessorized Bible about “parasociality.” I welcome you to think along with me. Thank you as always for your kind attention. https://daviddault.substack.com/p/thor-and-hamilton

My latest essay, in which I attempt to think with my friend @daviddark.bsky.social about his ideas regarding the “prayer trade” and the “God grift” https://daviddault.substack.com/p/a-question-for-david-dark

My regular reminder to myself that nobody owes me a like, nobody owes me a follow, and nobody owes me a conversation.

When your special orders come into @thebookshopnash.bsky.social, & the lovely staff have them waiting at the counter for you (& after your serendipitous hellos w/looong-time friends), you create an impromptu display & celebrate, of course! (esp. when one of the books is by @daultradio.bsky.social!)

I want parents to stop saying “nobody taught me how to be a parent” Yes somebody tried Your children! All you had to do was respect our humanity and listen to things we were telling about what we liked and what we didn’t and just consider our feelings and opinions

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

My latest essay is a lecture I wrote for the opening session of my course in Ignatian Spirituality, which started this week at Loyola University Chicago Institute of Pastoral Studies. I hope you enjoy it, & if you do, please share. Thanks! https://daviddault.substack.com/p/go-set-the-world-on-fire

This conversation with @daultradio.bsky.social looks at the Bible as a physical object and how it gets weaponized to protect power or used to make life more possible. How we read the Bible is always a moral act. Listen now: pod.link/1566243892

Dear friends and opponents! If you have a podcast, and would be willing to have me as a guest, I would very much like to come on your show and talk about my new book, The Accessorized Bible. Thanks and let’s please be in touch! https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300153125/the-accessorized-bible/

Well past the deadline, The Late World re-emerges! With a new long post! Enjoy! https://lateworld.substack.com/p/failing-upward

This is my latest essay about the pathology quadrilateral. It draws on ideas from Mark Fisher, Hannah Arendt, Timothy Beal, Burke Gerstenschlager, and others. As always, I welcome your responses. Thank you! #philosophy https://daviddault.substack.com/p/capitalist-realism-failed-revolutions

New episode of our Superman podcast is out: https://supermanpodcast.substack.com/p/truth-justice-and-the-way-episode-700