I am here to reveal the truth about pumpkin spice lattes, by way of *deep* archival research (and 3,600 words) snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...

Joan Scott reflects on academic inquiry, "viewpoint diversity" and its weaponization: academeblog.org/2025/10/15/o...

Do the three housing ballot proposals represent YIMBY "Abundance" magic or an anti-democratic "power grab"? Here's our crash course on the back of your ballot:

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

The daughter of an Episcopal priest -- the first female Anglican priest in Seoul -- was arrested at immigration court in New York by ICE. Family says she has a visa - www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...

"At the end of the day, I don't think my education is as important as the lives of people in Gaza who are being murdered and intentionally starved right now." hellgatenyc.com/columbia-sus...

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba

Short profile of mom on PBS: “A brief, but spectacular take on piecing the past to the future” #quilts #quilting #art #Juneteenth youtu.be/jFr8lkfSMks?...

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

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I’m the Director of the Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern and also a gender historian. If I thought for a minute that our administration had cancelled this conference for political reasons I would be complaining, loudly. But this is not an accurate representation of what happened.

NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...

A graduate student at @rrchnm.bsky.social, Rachel Whyte, put together an introductory video about the Religious Bodies censuses conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and the work that we are doing to turn them into a dataset for scholarly and public use. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNgJ...

Apply now for Virginia Ramey Mollenkott award for best academic paper in LGBTQ religious history lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/vrm-award

I send the original to @mjcrockett.bsky.social yesterday saying we should write a rebuttal though neither of us have time, and then VOILÀ!! We need MORE of this! MORE responses from academics, more shaming, more fighting against the broligarchy's shameless grift on universities!

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Here's a link to our fantastic program for #USIH2024 in Boston, Massachusetts: s-usih.org/wp-content/u... @sarageorgini.bsky.social @benjaminepark.bsky.social @econroykrutz.bsky.social

OK, I guess someone had to do it and I guess today that someone is me. Academic Study of Religion starter pack! I am sure I have left people out, so please let me know if I need to add you! go.bsky.app/9CdZTiN