Scenes from a conference. #cts2026Nova

I won!

The 5k run awards get the banquet started. #cts2026nova @ctstheology.bsky.social

Love this group! #CTS2026

DEVELOPING: Rob Lowe’s band from St. Elmo’s Fire has withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

I can't deny the convenience of the "e-book" but going to the library and leaving with an armful of hardcovers feels like getting away with something

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

ICE's terrorism against citizens and immigrants must stop.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

This is my favorite shot from Artemis II so far—absolutely stunning CREDIT:NASA

If you're seeing Pride censorship in U.S. libraries–whether it's from inside the library or from pressure outside–please report it for the annual roundup. You can be anonymous. There are already *several* this year. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hi, radically pro-trans-gender over here! *waves in Christian* (IOW: a devotee of Trinity God, the original they/them)

"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...

One of the better things that happened to me when I was a grad student was a job where I read and summarized faculty evaluations Once you’ve seen the wild range of petty shit students fixate on, even for great professors, seeing it in your own evals hits way less hard

If you follow the news, it’s obvious that the Trump administration’s approach to immigration “enforcement” is a violent, chaotic mess—constitutional violations, street killings, abuse of detainees. But what they’re doing in the background is also extremely bad. And it affects SO many people: 1/6

Happy Mother's Day

"The fate of the poor and the fate of the land are inextricably linked." sojo.net/magazine/aug...

Adding "if you even care" to the bottom of The Constitution

How it’s going How it’s going to go

The violence of white supremacy is not only in what it does to people, but in what it does to truth. It silences the oppressed, rewrites the crime scene and calls it history.

I think it would be cool if food pantries didn't need to rely on donations from harmful sports gambling sites in order to fill gaps left by federal funding cuts made by an administration that wants to kill poor people

happy bday writer/philosopher Martha Nussbaum, b.1947, NYC. “We become merciful, she wrote, when we behave as the “concerned reader of a novel,” understanding each person’s life as a “complex narrative of human effort in a world full of obstacles.”

This is my favorite shot from Artemis II so far—Absolutely Stunning!

‘We cannot wait for governments… so it will have to be us.’ #poetry

Folks: crack your knuckles & get to typing

The assistant manager of the rings

“The goal of ICE is not to make communities safer,” Stanley writes, “ICE’s mission is to reinforce a distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them.” www.arcurrent.com/editorials/2...

#poem #poetry #writingcommunity One of many favorites by Mary Oliver…

Example. bsky.app/profile/asht...

Thank you, @sofcethics.bsky.social & @luzarragar.bsky.social !

Congratulations to SCE members @luzarragar.bsky.social and @tumnusethic.bsky.social on the publication of their coedited volume for the College Theology Society with @orbisbooks.bsky.social! With contributions from members @zahaney.bsky.social and Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, SJ. buff.ly/d4uEc3z

I'm so angry it's difficult to pick a direction from which to comment on this horrid SCOTUS decision. But we cannot fix the problems in this country until we can openly talk about the racism that permeates, saturates, every cell of it.

I do too, fwiw.

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.

Clear your mind for moment and understand this. We are altering the very #climate of the planet in a way that's dangerous for our own survival and the stability of our ecosystems. With only a few exceptions, our politicians are not only looking the other way but actively making the problem worse.

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

This Ars Poetica is a quiet manifesto, Heaney breaking with his familial past. It's about what poetry is & how it functions Poetry becomes excavation of memory, of place, of identity. Not digging turf, but digging into language itself. #Poetry #Poemoftheday #Nationalpoetrymonth #seamusheaneysunday

dig dig dig

Today, hundreds of Utahns came to the Governor’s mansion to say NO to an ICE warehouse detention center in Salt Lake City. No Topaz 2.0! No concentration camp! Not now. Not EVER! #ICEout #ICEwarehouseResistance #GTFOICE

Southern Poverty Law Center: “We will not stand for this perversion and misuse of the criminal legal system and will continue to expose hate and defend civil rights as we always have - no matter who tries to stop us.” Go SPLC! 🔥

This might be the handiest thing I’ve seen all day

#ProtestSign #resistance #resist #MayDay #NoKings #HandsOff #BlueWave #BlueWaveComing #Midterms

My poem, #EarthDay 2026, looks past the green slogans to the 'ghosts of intention' left behind by cancelled progress. It’s a critique of a world where drilling is treated like prayer & war remains the greatest consumer of all—yet, somehow, the earth keeps offering us another morning to get it right.

A Very Beautiful Photo of the Night Side of Earth from the ISS by Tom Pesquet.