Some good news:

It's my first official week as the new Senior Producer of Religion and Spirituality at NPR, and I'm working on compiling some resources for reporters. What are your favorite pieces of religion journalism from the last 10 years or so? (Especially audio!)

A really fun part of writing The Bible Says So was harassing friends until they wrote endorsements for me, including Jerry Saltz, Liz Bucar, Joel McHale, Rob Paulsen, Rev Karla (featured soon on Data Over Dogma Podcast), Prof Francesca Stavrakopoulou & more are forthcoming! static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bib…

Had a great time chatting with Northeastern U. students today about my work on religion and fitness. They had so much to say about charisma! Thank you Liz Bucar for inviting me to your class and having them read my piece in American Examples vol.2 UA Dept. of REL

Sacred Writes director & Professor of Religion Liz Bucar will lead & participate in the group, which grows out of her research interests, including: hup.harvard.edu/books/97806749…

. @NatalieMAvalos, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, is an ethnographer of religion whose research examines contemporary Indigenous religious life, healing historical trauma, and decolonization.

Tara Isabella Burton @NotoriousTIB Visiting Fellow Mercatus Center George Mason University & Visiting Research Fellow, Institutional Flourishing Lab, The Catholic University of America is a theologian & culture critic studying how Western esotericism helped develop ideas of "scientific progress."

.Susannah Crockford , Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Exeter UK, is an anthropologist of New Age spirituality, ecology, and conspiracy theories.

Shreena Niketa Gandhi Dr. Shreena Gandhi, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University, is a cultural historian of Hinduism who studies how race, gender, and class inform the practice of yoga in the contemporary United States.

Kira Ganga Kieffer Dr. Kira Ganga Kieffer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Wesleyan University studies contemporary American spiritualities, health, gender, and marketing.

Ann Gleig, @agleig Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies, University of Central Florida, studies spirituality emerging from the encounter between Buddhism and American culture, particularly meditation and mindfulness.

Ira Helderman, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University, studies how psychotherapists’ definitions of what is and is not religious shape their understandings of caregiving, health, and illness.

Cody Musselman Cody Musselman Preceptor, Harvard University, is a scholar of American religion, popular culture, and exercise.

.Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social, Lecturer at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture @ Nanzan University, Japan is an anthropologist of religion focused on the globalization of Japanese Shinto practices through popular culture such as anime, video games, and Marie Kondo’s decluttering.

Michiel van Elk Michiel van Elk, Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, is a psychologist, neuroscientist, & PI of the PRSM lab, which focuses on Psychedelic, Religious, Self-transcendent and Mystical experiences.

For more on each scholar and on the project's goals, please visit: sacred-writes.org/templeton-work…

Sacred Writes is thrilled to announce we will offer FOUR public scholarship trainings for scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality in 2025, funded by the Carpenter Foundation. First up: a PAID January Intensive! Apply by Dec. 16th! More info below!

Please circulate and consider applying yourself!!

All copies of Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and Liz Bucar’s books were also purchased by the end of the first day of #SBLAAR2024! But you can still order these books through the Harvard University Press website and get a 40% discount until Dec 1.

It’s not often I’m mentioned in the same sentence with Eddie S. Glaude Jr.! I’ll take the win! Thanks religion nerds for continuing to show your love for #StealingMyReligion.