Hi this is Jay Carney from Creighton University with the second thread of Day 1 of our Twitter takeover of the The Journal of Religious History account, focusing on JRH's 2020 special edition on Christianity and Politics in 20th-Century Africa. Wiley Humanities American Academy of Religion J Africana Religions AASR

Check out Chris Tounsel's article as well as his terrific new book, Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan. dukeupress.edu/chosen-peoples

"There is a movement...to reverse the awful centrifugal force of alienation, brokenness, division, hostility, and disharmony. God has set in motion a centripetal process, a moving toward the center, toward unity, harmony, goodness, peace, and justice." RIP Arch. Desmond Tutu!

Grateful to see Africa Is a Country's review of Contesting Catholics, offered by Derek R Peterson: "This is the singular achievement of Earle & Jay Carney's book: showing that UG’s local histories were never local, highlighting the cosmopolitan sources of inspiration w/ 1/2

Here's the scene at Kololo airstrip on 28 Jan. 1971, when Idi Amin freed 55 men and women detained by Milton Obote. Among those released: Benedicto Kiwanuka; Cuthbert Obwangor; Grace Ibingira; 'Jolly Joe' Kiwanuka; & the Nalinya Mpologoma, sister to the late Kabaka. 1/

Grateful to ⁦America Magazine⁩ and ⁦Paddy Gilger, SJ⁩ for connecting my new book to broader tradition of Catholic social teaching. americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2…

Thanks to Allison Isidore and New Books in Catholic Studies 📚 for this stimulating conversation on Jonathon L. Earle and my new book!

Happy to announce my new book On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport, where Matt Hoven, Max Engel & I delve into what sport reveals about God, humanity, & Christian faith & ethics. Promo code 8Day40 for a 40% discount on Wipf and Stock Publishers site. wipfandstock.com/9781666701142/…

"Now more than ever, our intention is to serve people as such and not only Catholics; to defend above all the rights of the human person...it is not the Gospel that changes; it is we who begin to understand it better." Happy feast day St. John XXIII, and happy 60th Vatican II!

Murakoze cyane to all of our Rwandan hosts and speakers last week - embodying JPII’s and P.H. Kolvenbach SJ’s notion that solidarity is learned through contact, not concepts.

So grateful to Universite Notre Dame de Tshumbe and their president Sr Rebecca Walo and Dean Dr Jacob Onyumbe for hosting my lecture last week…and further connecting Creighton to Congo! ⁦Creighton University⁩ ⁦Creighton University College of Arts and Sciences⁩

And you thought Catholic polarization was bad today! timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…

Looking forward to this dialogue tomorrow with Deo K. Kannamwangi and others at Kyambogo University. Thank you for the invitation!

It was an honor to be with you at Kyambogo on Friday! Thank you also for the rich conversation and Q/A after the lecture. I hope we can collaborate again in the future.

Grateful for the chance to speak CWCIT (World Catholicism & Intercultural Theology) during Super Bowl week on sport and Pope Francis's culture of encounter. events.depaul.edu/event/can_spor…

Terrific to see George Mpanga publish this groundbreaking new book with ChinaScherz !

Many thanks to America Magazine and Michael O’Brien for this article on my recent book with Matt Hoven and all are most welcome to hybrid event at CWCIT (World Catholicism & Intercultural Theology) tonight!

A Uganda Martyrs Day shout out to Kampala’s JPII Center for Justice and Peace! Prize-winning Uganda center pursues justice in spirit of Pope John Paul II cruxnow.com/church-in-afri…

As I mourn the death of a remarkable pope, I must recommend my friend Matt Ashley's recent book exploring the Ignatian spirituality that shaped Francis as a Jesuit. It's the best study of his intellectual journey that I've read. undpress.nd.edu/9780268203184/…