Sometimes I feel really mad about the fact that the writing world is not going to acknowledge in any way that parents of small kids just lost two plus years of our writing lives! No change to residencies, no financial help or awards or scholarships, not a fucking thing!

Around a quarter of U.S. adults (23%) use Twitter, our 2021 survey found. pewrsr.ch/37LZOkw

Great transformations of moral perception make debtors of us all—if we have eyes to see. Check out Jay Case's piece, "Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly." currentpub.com/2022/04/26/lon…

I’m somewhat loath to get so personal but I feel like I need to tell this story. My mother died in December 2020 with what I believed at the time to be $40k in student loan debt.

Procrastinated on writing a class description for a winter quarter course b/c I wasn’t sure how to teach it. Dedicated 1/2 an hour yesterday to writing it and now I can’t stop thinking about the course/syllabus and can’t wait to teach it!

I just finished watching “A Day In the Life of Stanford Women’s Golf” by No Laying Up and Rachel Heck and Rose Zhang are my new favorite golfers. As a #girldad golfer, I would love for my daughter to be coached by Anne Walker. So cool!

Uvalde: AR-15 Buffalo: AR-15 Boulder: AR-15 Orlando: AR-15 Parkland: AR-15 Las Vegas: AR-15 Aurora, CO: AR-15 Sandy Hook: AR-15 Waffle House: AR-15 San Bernardino: AR-15 Midland/Odessa: AR-15 Poway synagogue: AR-15 Sutherland Springs: AR-15 Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15

In Judaism, if you say a prayer over something, then fail to do the requisite action that follows, like blessing bread and not eating it, it’s a bracha levatla - which is a sinful act. If you pray for victims of gun violence but do nothing, it is a sinful act.

This week on Open Lectures for Residents: Voices in Action, Julius Jones —@uchicago PhD candidate in history and @chicagomuseum assistant curator— discusses the importance of making historical information accessible to all citizens: youtube.com/watch?v=8nrK-m…. Cook County Government

Gun culture is part of the settler religion of whiteness and its liturgies of violence.

If a weapon is so dangerous that a squad of police officers are too afraid to confront a single person wielding it, that weapon should be banned.

We need to teach students that academic writing/ research is not about finding 'a gap' or creating an 'original' idea (very unlikely) but it's about building on the work of others, entering into conversations (& acknowledging debts). It is collaborative work. #AcademicTwitter

Hot off the press from OUPReligion—the sequel to Noll's In the Beginning Was the Word (2016). It's a cliché to call it a weighty tome, but this volume, at 846 pp., really is! As I say in my blurb, no one knows more about the Bible in American public life than Mark Noll.

Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural address in 1861: “If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”

The insistence that historians study change over time privileges time as linear chronology and overlooks other ways of thinking about time. Why is change necessarily the metric historians must use to think about time? Why not continuity and repetition? (1/)

This is really exciting!

"Because Berry writes with an eagle eye and heart of courage on present conditions and controversies, the particulars will surely stop some readers in their tracks." --Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn currentpub.com/2022/10/12/rev… #wendellberry #wholeness

Princeton Theological Seminary is pleased to announce that the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton has been elected by the Board of Trustees to serve as the Seminary's eighth president. ptsem.edu/news/princeton…

BREAKING: Massive new >22k respondent PRRI survey shows majorities of Americans in 43 states + DC say abortion should be legal in most/all cases, and in 13 states + DC, more than 7 in 10 favor legalization. prri.org/research/abort…