Religion UnpluggedHistory nerds rejoice! An incredibly detailed land-use survey and census from the 1500s, commissioned by none other than Henry VIII, will soon be digitally available to everyone, including genealogists, educators, researchers and community...
Contending ModernitiesTargeting Jews for the way they express themselves as Jews is very clearly not part of a struggle against antisemitism, but antisemitic itself. The post Letter from Scholars of the Holocaust, Jewish History, and Antisemitism Against the Adoption of...
ReligionProfI have been wondering for a while, but especially in the past couple of days, about what to call those who tend to be labeled as “conservative Christians” and yet are neither conservative nor Christian in any meaningful sense. As a scholar of...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) Iran’s leaders warned the United States and Israel of retaliation as nationwide protests challenged the Islamic Republic’s theocracy. Facing mounting deaths and unrest, Iranian officials framed dissent as foreign-backed chaos,...
PaleoJudaicia ReligionProfWhy would I say that “Evangelicals View God as Like Donald Trump”? It struck me quite suddenly recently that there is a parallel between how Evangelicals view “faith” and how they approach political leaders. When we realize this, we understand what...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) The Japanese tea ceremony is deeply rooted in the ideals of Zen Buddhism, but the current matcha hype has little to do with the tea ceremony. Green tea has become part of the on-the-go coffee culture. On social media, a centuries-old...
Political TheologyThe ability or inability of insiders to hear the silences that arise on the other side of the borders drawn by colonizing societies around themselves, to perceive them as the echo of missing voices, may constitute, for the victims of colonialism,...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) There’s this well-worn phrase you hear in Christian circles: “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.” It’s often used by pastors to remind people that simply showing up on...
Religion UnpluggedRaising up the next generation of church leaders is “vitally important,” says Brian Frable, pastor of Kona Baptist Church on the Big Island of Hawaii. It’s important to Kona Baptist Church and the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention “as we advance...
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Good Faith MediaAfter a deadly ICE encounter in Minneapolis, escalating immigration raids are spreading fear and unrest across U.S. cities. The post A Climate of Fear and Distrust: Responding to Escalating ICE Raids in America appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Religion Unplugged(REVIEW) “The Gridiron Gospel” is a wonderful addition to the study of religion and sport. It focuses on schools like Notre Dame, BYU and Liberty University. Historian Hunter M. Hampton convincingly shows that college football was not just...
Canopy ForumThe West Virginia State Capitol Building by O Palsson (CC BY 2.0). Since 2020, a foster family from West Virginia fostered, and eventually adopted, three girls. In 2023, the girls’ newborn biological brother, M.B., was immediately placed with the...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) Pope Leo XIV used an annual address to Vatican diplomats to warn that global politics had shifted toward militarism and force. Without naming any political leaders, he criticized war, erosion of international law and weakened human...
Barth NotesFrom the Daily Mail: An alleged fantasist has been charged with perverting the course of justice ten years after accusing various politicians of raping her. Esther Baker, 43, made allegedly ‘malicious’ claims of child sexual abuse at a time of...
White Too LongTrump's deadly lies represent a new stage in the backsliding of America away from democracy.
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) One of the things few people discuss about the “Avatar” films is how deeply “faith-based” they are. In fact, their spirituality may be one of the most influential things about the franchise in Hollywood. Since the first film graced...
The ConversationPo'pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the United States.
Religion UnpluggedAnyone who has followed religion news published by the Gray Lady in the years since January 22, 1973, knows that when debates linked to evangelicalism must be covered, The New York Times knows how to tell “good” evangelicals from “bad”...
Religion UnpluggedTo Gwen Cummings, the late Marshall Keeble was more than a famous traveling evangelist. He was her “Pop.” Cummings shared her personal memories of Marshall and Laura Keeble, her great-grandparents who were more like grandparents to her.
ReligionProfIt strikes me that the best way to think about the process of faculty grappling with the new technology of LLMs (Large Language Models) is by analogy to the process of working through grief outlined by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her well-known five...
Good Faith MediaThe time has come for common-sense citizens who love their country and recognize blatant injustice to engage in the political process. The post The Week The United States Fell appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Good Faith MediaHow can the United States credibly speak about protecting Christians in Nigeria, Syria or Iraq if it overlooks the ethnic cleansing of Armenian Christians for the sake of expediency? The post From Saving Armenian Orphans to Funding Their...
Good Faith MediaOn Thursday, Minnesota faith leaders from various traditions gathered at the site where an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good on the streets of Minneapolis, amid a surge of ICE raids. The post Minneapolis Faith Leaders Call for Peace, Urge ICE to...
PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia Canopy ForumCarlo III di Borbone visiting the Pope Benedetto XIV in the coffee-house of the Quirinale, Rome (US-PD). As the eighteenth century unfolded, theories aimed at limiting the Roman Catholic Church’s authority, shaped over the previous centuries and...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraEnormous—and it's attendance that tells us more than denomination or religion The post How Big Is the God Gap on College Campuses? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsEnormous—and it's attendance that tells us more than denomination or religion The post How Big Is the God Gap on College Campuses? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
The ConversationThough they lived centuries apart, Aristotle and Tsunetomo both explored what it means to live virtuously, and the risks of wanting praise or recognition.
Good Faith MediaThis is not a call to withdraw. It’s a call to return to empathy, to community, to the belief that democracy depends on our ability to recognize the dignity of those with whom we disagree. The post How Politics Replaced Religion in the American...
Good Faith MediaIf we are to address poverty in America, then we must also address racism, as these issues are deeply intertwined. The post Telling the Truth During National Poverty Awareness Month appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Good Faith MediaHeartbreakingly, the ideology of Manifest Destiny destroyed countless precious lives. We should never forget. The post A Monumental Spectacle and a Forgotten History appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Good Faith MediaThe revelation at the heart of Epiphany is certainly the revealing of the messiah to the Gentiles and to the whole world. But it is also the revealing to the wise men of Herod’s true plans and character. The post The Epiphany Season: By Another...
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Church HistoryThe University of Dubuque Theological Seminary seeks a faculty member in Church History/Historical Theology to begin July 1, 2026. The successful candidate will teach online and in-person required and elective courses in church history and Reformed...
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Political TheologyNegativity cuts against a politics of nostalgia (which seeks to conserve the imagined glories of the past) and apocalypse (which rejects the world as irredeemably compromised) Source
The ConversationSocial media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar of premodern Japanese literature unpacks that history.
Studying Religion in CultureNo matter what carreer path people pursue after they graduate UA, the ability to think critically about problems in their broader context and find a wholistic solution is invaluable, and it’s a skill that many REL majors nurture as undergrads, such...
PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia Good Faith MediaEvangelicals may no longer loudly support Donald Trump, but their silence carries its own danger. A theological critique of power, omission, and the gospel. The post Evangelicals No Longer Support Trump. It’s Worse: They Ignore Him. appeared first...
Good Faith MediaMany people react to clarity as if it’s an attack—not because the truth is inherently harmful, but because they’ve never learned how to receive it without collapsing or retaliating. The post The Cost of Equivocation: Why We Avoid Clarity appeared...
Popular Culture And TheologyBy Princess O’Nika Auguste During the holiday season, the pull of childhood nostalgia often leads me back to the familiar landscapes of my past. This means I return to the adventures of the mythological universe of Xena: The Warrior Princess and...
ReligionProfWhen I title this post “Venezuela Greenland and the Apocalypse” that does not mean that I am going to open the Book of Revelation and show you the verses where current events are supposedly fulfilling Biblical predictions. If you need an...