Thanks for sharing, Judith!

YOU HAVE MULTIPLIED YOUR WONDROUS DEEDS NONE CAN COMPARE WITH YOU WERE I TO PROCLAIM THEM THERE WOULD BE MORE THAN CAN BE COUNTED -An explanation of why Alyssa Thomas is the #WNBA MVP, quoted in Psalm 40:5

Another call for papers some folks may be interested in!

Looking forward to this!

Not much time left to back "Keep the Faith"! I'm looking forward to incorporating this game into some of my Religious Studies classes. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

Keep the Faith, a storytelling game about a religion in transition by @gregisonthego.bsky.social, is coming to Backerkit tomorrow! Won't you join us? #ttrpg #CMichPress #KeeptheFaith www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

Ready to nerd out over games, teaching, religion. #sblaar25 Booth 816 in Exhibit Hall.

#sblaar24 folks! I will be at the SBL/AAR Game Booth in Exhibit Hall this Saturday, noon to 5pm w religion-themed board games that are free to play, explore. List of games: jeffreywheatley.com/aar24games. Subject to some change as I work to keep the suitcase under 50lbs 😓.

#SBLAAR24 folks! I’m bringing religion-themed board games to the annual meeting. I’ll be at the AAR booth in Exhibit Hall Saturday noon-5pm. Free to play, explore, consider assigning in class. Games here: www.jeffreywheatley.com/aar24games.

Fairy rings. I'm writing on early scientific explanations to dismiss the supernatural. In 1853 a Yorkshire correspondent to "The Naturalist" magazine suggested, from observation of his pet hedgehog, that some fairy rings were caused by hedgehogs running in circles.

We are hiring an assistant professor to support a new game design major at Iowa State. We encourage applicants with scholarly activities related to (but are not limited to) character design and animation for game engines. Please share! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Huge 🙌🏻

The AHA sent a letter to the members of the Iowa House of Representatives opposing HF 2544, a bill that bypasses "the state’s mandated process for developing social studies standards.” 🗃️

We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in #gamedesign! Join an interdisciplinary team of faculty at Iowa State developing a game design major. Requires knowledge of game design principles; preference for art design & game engines, especially character animation. (myworkdayjobs.com)

Iowa State has a job call up for an Asst Prof of Game Design to contribute to the development of a cross-college, cross-department Game Design undergraduate degree program. Focus on art design and game engines, especially character animation. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

I appreciate LeBron James posting a cryptic hourglass symbol a week before I am prepping a lesson on symbolism, encoding, and decoding in Religion and Popular Culture. ⌛

Did a fun lil interview for a spotlight from Northwestern Religious Studies, where I got my PhD. religious-studies.northwestern.edu/about/news/2...

Attention art historians and medievalists! Check out our site's display of 2,500 pieces of African artwork, from the late 1300s to the present! pemm.princeton.edu/paintings

Since I am following a number of game folks, does anyone have experience or knowledge about game licenses in university libraries? Specifically, I'm working with our library on challenge of licensing digital PC games (e.g., Pentiment) for student educational use on a library PC.

Excited for this one by @odavies9.bsky.social!

arizonasports.com/story/353954... Prayers up for the #PhoenixMercury to have a shot at getting Caitlin Clark.

Been thinking about religious events or themes that lend themselves to a feasible card/board game system. Tinkering with game concept based on 19th century religious revivals. Drawing loosely on my fanaticism work and Finbarr Curtis’ chapter on Charles Finney’s systematization of revivals.

Especially existed for this new religion-related game I just got. The Magical Card Battle of Britain. 2+ players competing through real and fictional folk occultists, monsters, witches, and, ahem, scholars. From Hellebore press.

Browsing through our spring classes

I need to get to panels earlier because my back won’t last another session sitting on the ground. #AARSBL23

My highlight of #AARSBL23 so far is Winnifred Sullivan giving some hints about her Joan of Arc book during a political theology panel. I need this book!

Looking forward to selecting readings and games for our faculty learning community over the next few years.

Tag yourself! I am closest to True Neutral here, though no papers for me at this #AARSBL23.

The linked op ed is so on point. Humanities degrees aren’t “useless.” They are critical. Critical because they require “analytical thinking about thinking,” which is precisely what also makes them critical (as in “of crucial importance”).

Biblically accurate Angel food cake

Low key Gamergate made our cultural and political world.

Following a lot of new folks on here! I’m a religious studies prof working on US religion, fanaticism, state power. More recently interested in myths, supernatural, cults in game worlds. Part of a team of faculty developing Game Design Major at Iowa State University. More at www.jeffreywheatley.com.

Starting to plan the revisions and tweaks to my two spring courses: Catholicism and Religion and Popular Culture. Incorporating two PC games and two tabletop games in them in part as a pilot program to work through the accessibility, financial, and educational challenges of teaching games.

ICYMI: the indomitable @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social shared the audio and her notes from this @xroadproj.bsky.social info session if you're an artist, organizer, scholar, or otherwise knowledge-maker who works on/with Black religious histories, cultures, and communities APPLY!!! apps due 18 Dec

Looking forward to seeing many of y’all at AAR! I’ll be presiding over this excellent panel. #AARSBL23

Made a list of board, card, and RPG games that have some connection to Religious Studies. Feel free to add! boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/325...

Think I got my next tattoo nailed down: the medieval folk dog hero St. Guinefort, with snake in mouth.

Look at what the modernists have done this time!

Looking at religion-themed board and card games to add to the collection. Found an Apples to Apples Bible Edition. This little fanatic apple has strong feelings about biblical translations.

Doing more work on the book chapter on Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield as an "agent of the Deity." Here's the prosecutor's closing argument and Guiteau (The Prisoner) quipping up with one of his many interjections.

Got the preview of Windows with their AI Copilot. Check out the suggestion for a question.

I wrote about a book on Betty and Barney Hill, the first Americans to tell alien abduction stories: religiondispatches.org/from-civil-r...

Ok, ok this is bizarro Twitter. I can work with this. Hello #religiousstudies #americanhistory folks!