The last year has been a big one for Catholic clergy born in Illinois. New from me: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Are women's rights more at risk than we thought? Another great essay from @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ruthbrau...

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

2025 was another great year for Religion & American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation! We saw a variety of article topics including health, tourism, media, and more! Check out the three issues that were released this year and the most read articles of this year!

I started this podcast today and plan to assign a few episodes to my students in the Spring! An exceptional example of public scholarship.

This exhibit by James Bielo is really cool. Stop by today at #aarsbl25 if you haven’t seen it yet!

okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Mac Loftin on the publication of his timely and beautifully written book. @harvarddivinity.bsky.social

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to write this tribute on the late Dr. Phyllis Trible for @baptistnews.com. She gave many of us permission: baptistnews.com/article/reme...

Save the date! The Center will once again be hosting our annual reception at the 2025 Annual Meetings of #AAR Join us Sunday Nov. 23rd at 8pm at the Westin Copley Place in the Huntington Ballroom! Learn more and pre-register here: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/aar-2025/

It’s great to see students thinking about this. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

My article, “Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004-2024” is out with Religion and American Culture. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted to see David Hempton’s book, Christianity at the Crossroads, out in the world. I was a research assistant several years ago for his Gifford Lectures, on which this book is based.

Virginia Tech, the University of Oregon, Indiana University have all proposed cuts to religious studies programs. Why?

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

I’m excited to teach my new course, “Celebrity and Charisma in American Christianity,” this fall at Harvard Divinity School!

The Scopes trial turns 100 this month. Kelsey Hanson Woodruff writes about the legacy of the Scopes trial in Dayton, TN, and how one resident, Rachel Held Evans, tried to push evangelicalism beyond Young Earth creationism's culture war battle lines. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

More than 12,000 Harvard alumni, 21 state attorneys general, and two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed or plan to file amicus briefs backing Harvard in its court battle with the Trump administration, court records showed.

My international colleagues contribute to the excellent research and the intellectual vibrancy of the university. This is an attack on every classroom, seminar room, and laboratory at Harvard. It is an attempt to dismantle America’s higher education system at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

A beautiful tribute by my advisor Catherine Brekus to her colleague Martin Marty. arcmag.org/remembering-...

Harvard University faculty sue to block Trump review of nearly $9bn in funding

This is moral courage. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The most realistic part of White Lotus season 3 is the religious studies major being the most stable member of the family.

Thanks to Greg at the Classical Ideas podcast for interviewing me! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Congratulations on the book, Candace! nyupress.org/978147983322...

Why are university presses important? A thread 🧵

What a fascinating chapter on a religious figure with whom I have long been intrigued, Aimee Semple McPherson.

Excited to be part of this cohort!

Please put your virtual hands together for the intrepid cohort of religion, gender, and sexuality scholars selected for our January Intensive Public Scholarship Training, funded by the Carpenter Foundation! 👏 meet them below and www.sacred-writes.org/carpenter-co...

Editing a dissertation chapter by changing all the present tense sentences about Twitter to the past tense. #amwriting

Great new essay by my SSRC colleague Emily Fraser.

🧵So many people have asked me about this article. nypost.com/2024/12/03/u...

A piece I wrote for the Weatherhead Center’s Epicenter blog. I’m thankful for the support I’ve received from @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/christi...

If you are attending #aarsbl2024, please join the Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture for our annual reception on Sunday, November 24, from 8–10 p.m. Pacific in the Marriott Marquis, Ballroom A. To skip the registration line, pre-register here: forms.gle/DYKXsHEzQ4pw.... #aar #sbl

Tony Campolo - famed evangelist and social justice preacher - has died. There was no one like him religionnews.com/2024/11/19/t...

I’m looking forward to this event on Friday!

Looking forward to AAR/SBL next weekend and being in conversation with this panel on women and digital religion.

I’ve been working through this every Thursday afternoon this semester and it has helped me to clarify what my book is about and how to communicate that to readers. If you are revising your dissertation for publication, I highly recommend it!

Boston area folks and elsewhere: Great event at Harvard on 10/26 (3pm) with the amazing @janehongphd.bsky.social, Helen Jin Kim, Sandra H. Park speaking on religion and the Korean Diaspora. Open to the public both in-person and online. Come on out & please spread the word! RSVP: tinyurl.com/mtz3m79b