‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Join the Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit tomorrow morning as we celebrate the ecotheological legacy of H. Paul Santmire. Saturday 22nd Nov, 9am, Hynes Convention Center 209 @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25

NEW EMERGENCY SESSION AT #AARSBL25 "Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces" 4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208 Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.

A Gay Woman Becomes New York’s Lutheran Bishop www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

Dr. Christine Helmer opens up the conference with her paper “The Theology and Politics of Luther’s Mysticism” and delivered a needed challenge to patriarchal scholarship erasing women’s voices 💪💪💪 #LutheranScholarsNetwork #LutherandMysticism #MartinLuther #AARSBL25

Thanks so much to @nowhari.bsky.social for a great interview on COP30, Bill Gates, my new book, and more.

If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.

. Faith voices at COP30 call for strong climate action as a moral duty We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change! Find out more: actalliance.org/act-news/pr... .

Open postdoc position (2 years) in religion and migration in my ERC project ”Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical”. Deadline 15 Jan 2026 - come work in a fabulous team!

Special Issue: The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...

#climate #lgbtqia #gender #justice #theology #liberation #ecotheology #queertheology

Interested in how theology intersects with real-world issues of justice and ethics? Join our M.Phil in Theology and Social Justice webinar on Tues 11 Nov at 6.30pm (Irish Time). You'll hear from lecturers & students and can take part in a Q&A. Register: tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In act of reparation, Franciscan sisters return land to Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin www.globalsistersreport.org/act-reparati...

Transgender Perspectives on the Bible therevealer.org/podcast/epis...

I had a great time talking about creating and saving the world at Theology beer camp! Special thanks to Bo, Grace, and Jake for being great copanelists. And thanks to Mark Umstot for this photo!

What better time to talk theology, creation, and climate justice. Thanks to theology beer camp for such an enlivening weekend.

Therefore, as bishops of this church, we declare that the ELCA cannot be silent. Our call is clear: To resist systems and ideologies, including Christian Nationalism, that oppress, dehumanize, or erase. www.ecsw.org/news/a-lette...

Reverend David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to CNN's Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Largest US Lutheran denomination installs first Black presiding bishop www.npr.org/2025/10/04/n...

Sarah Mullally become first female Archbishop of Canterbury www.bbc.com/pidgin/artic...

Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist. She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.

Pope Leo XIV enters US political fray, challenging "inhuman treatment of immigrants" —> religionnews.com/2025/10/01/p...

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know. A great soul if ever there was one www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall has died at 91. Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO

Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

National Day of Remembrance for Indian boarding schools www.livinglutheran.org/2025/09/oran...

'We survived, we are resilient': Remembering U.S. Indian boarding schools www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

Excited to be presenting with @billieiswriting.bsky.social, @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social, and @orthoparadoxy.bsky.social at Theology Beer Camp this October!

And, if you are interested in Homebrewed Christianity's Theology Beer Camp, you can find info on the weekend here: www.theologybeercamp2025.com?utm_source=s...

This is a summary of my Theology Beer Camp lecture. For the full lecture, see this link... thomasjayoord759927.substack.com/p/creating-a...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

YES to @roxanegay.bsky.social: In "this framework, incivility is refusing to surrender to hatred, refusing to smile politely at someone who doesn’t consider you their equal, refusing to carve away the seemingly unpalatable parts of yourself until there is nothing left." #politics #justice #activism

‘They’re Small but They’re Mighty.’ Meet the Wisconsin Sisters Healing the Land. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

If you told me I could have a great review of my new book from the NYT or from Cory Doctorow, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

Talking with my dad on the phone. Then…Silence. Dad: “oh, hello. You’re not supposed to be here.” Me: “who’s there?” Dad: “there appears to be a cow out of place. Ope, no, well, three. Huh.” Me: “aren’t you inside?” Dad: “I’m going to have to call you back.”

As part of the Trinity Long Room Hub's 2025 Arts & Humanities Research Festival, I’m chairing a multidisciplinary discussion with Profs. Karen Wiltshire (Climate Science), Jonathan Hodgers (Music), Katja Bruisch (History), and Timothy Stott (Hist-Art/Architecture). www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-arts-a...

Looking forward to learning from this new book, ft. the work of my friend Azmeera Hammouri-Davis

In case you were wondering when the comedians and educators are silenced and under attack, that’s when you should be VERY worried

. Cameroon: Church leaders reflect on climate justice and peace We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change! Find out more: lutheranworld.org/news/came... .

When Universities Become Informants - Judith Butler www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series. Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

This semester in my religion, gender, and sexuality class, I decided to mostly teach things published in the last 10yrs, including lots of stuff I haven’t gotten to really read. First up is Muslims on the Margins by @katrinadalythompson.com. And goodness, what a lovely way to begin.

Eminent Palestinian Lutheran theologian Mitri Raheb (b. Bethlehem, 1962) has long pleaded for a 'decolonising' of Western theologies that - along with Scriptural distortions - have been weaponised to justify decades of atrocities against the Palestinians. Bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitri_R...

Via @petermanseau.bsky.social: “How the world now sees America: Display at Trinity College Dublin of words discouraged by US federal agencies in 2025.” (Tuned up the pic so you can see the words better)

Jacob Erickson: Emerging Trends in Theology & Ethics open.substack.com/pub/processt...

Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

Cracking the code of the feather barbules was the most important task she'd ever been assigned, the success of which could possibly save lives and make air travel safer for everyone. @cbsweeney.bsky.social, The Feather Detective. Fabulous book about Roxie Laybourne! #SundaySentence #Booksky #birds

When I Go, I’m Going Green More Americans are choosing burials in which everything is biodegradable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...