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Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

The 2026 Call for Papers for the Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit is live! Do propose… papers.aarweb.org/aar-login

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

"It’s unlike anything that I’ve ever seen, and I think it’s what we expect from authoritarian regimes, you know, outside of the United States of America, and yet it is happening right here in our own backyards," Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan said. religionnews.com/2026/01/15/m...

The Minneapolis Faith Community Is Showing How to Fight ICE newrepublic.com/article/2054...

Climate ecologist-turned-pastor reflects on return to campus www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Canada, Denmark, U.S. Lutheran bishops issue joint statement supporting Greenlandic people www.elca.org/news-and-eve...

Greenland is ‘not for sale’ warns Lutheran Bishop www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

How Minnesota faith communities are resisting aggressive immigration operations www.npr.org/2026/01/13/n...

Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

“The tradition we claim does not begin with the management of fear, but with the protection of human dignity. It does not teach that order justifies violence, or that power is vindicated by its ability to dominate.” www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

“I Am a Minneapolis Mother and Pastor, and I Know Where I Stand We are being sold a brutish view of the world. But another world is possible.” newrepublic.com/article/2051...

The victim of today's ICE shooting in Minneapolis has been identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good, 37. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I'm all for complicating secularization, but I think we need to complicate the complication, too. This excellent piece from @ryanburge.bsky.social I thought was on point this week. www.deseret.com/opinion/2026...

“There is suddenness / to all surfaces.” A poem by Jorie Graham. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fK9igR

How the Right Uses “Gender Ideology” to Blame Trans People for Everything www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94

Not sure exactly what’s up with my mom’s Christmas village display this year, but I suspect the ecumenical implications are staggering.

Required viewing. Don’t miss out on this talk by Kelly Brown Douglas. So important. open.substack.com/pub/processt...

Delighted. “Congratulations to Dr. Jacob J. Erickson, who has been elected to the Program Committee of the American Academy of Religion (AAR)—the world's largest scholarly organization dedicated to the academic study of religion.” www.tcd.ie/religion/new...

If you're into podcasts, or gay history, this from @thislynne.bsky.social is perfect and beautifully done. Using an archive of 1,200 audio tapes recorded at the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco @mccdenomination.bsky.social at the height of the AIDS epidemic,...

Relatedly: y’all gotta read @fiona-murphy.bsky.social’s fantastic interview with Rian Johnson, the director of Wale Up Dead Man, in which he discusses his own experience growing up evangelical (and then leaving it, albeit not necessarily *theism* altogether). religionnews.com/2025/11/25/t...

At AAR/SBL, Religion Scholars Address Issues Ancient and Modern www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

‘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