Please check out and spread the word on this call for papers for a special issue of Religion & Education I am co-editing with Kristyn Sessions on “Religion, Ethics, and Community-Based Learning”! bit.ly/Religion_Ethics

You know you’re an ethics nerd when you have a dream in which you’re trying to explain utilitarianism and Kant’s categorical imperative to a group of scholars in a different discipline.

It is mental health awareness month. This is deeply important and personal to me. It is okay if you are not okay. It is okay if everything is not fine. It is okay to make space for the support you need.

Fellow social scientists: just because religion seems either stupid or unimaginable to you doesn’t mean that religious ideologies, prejudices, worldviews, practices or anything else are ultimately reducible to whatever secular thing seems more real and important to you.

Last night, Dr. Melissa Snarr moderated a conversation with Aly Benítez and @revjenbailey on Movement Chaplaincy. We gathered in the chapel @ West End United Methodist Church.

Thanks to The Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice for putting together this provocative panel for our Symposium attendees. “Privilege and Power in the Capitalocene” featured Joerg Rieger (Joerg Rieger), Charlene Sinclair and Chaumtoli Huq (profhuq/সম্তলৗ হক)

We are incredibly grateful to Dr. Melissa Snarr for serving as our Plenary Speaker for the FPE’s 2022 Symposium! Dr. Snarr’s lecture was titled “Good Refugees Don’t Organize: Intersectional Worker Agency and Protestant Christian Ethics.”

An important editorial on ethical community-university relationships via New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2022/08/02/opi…

Somehow I missed this fantastic essay by Sara A. Williams, Ph.D. published by Political Theology Network a few months ago. My thoughts on theology’s relationship to the social sciences runs parallel to hers, particularly from my standpoint in World Christianity. politicaltheology.com/from-disciplin…

Sometimes I think my book proposal sounds brilliant, and at other times I think it sounds like a load of hot garbage. It’s a strange kind of whiplash.

Theological Education Between the Times just posted my comments from the University Ethics panel at the SCE. Would love to hear your thoughts! tebt.candler.emory.edu/resources#sara… Fellowship for Protestant Ethics Candler School of Theology

We’re having some apocalyptic level flooding here in southwestern CT. A video of Charlie’s preschool earlier today: And it’s still raining.