The Commons by APRIL OnlineYEAR ONE: R/evolutionary Open Blueprints for Devotional Being(s)
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Doctrine of DiscoveryComments Delivered to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
Comments delivered as part of the “Virtual Consultation on Legal Framework: Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief,” held June 22, 2022. For details on the Special Rapporteur’s report, see Ahmed Shaheed, “Interim Report...
Doctrine of DiscoveryIndigenous Values Initiative Together with the American Indian Law Alliance Submits this Report: The Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth, Indigenous Peoples, and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief
The present report is the input provided by the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI) and American Indian Law Alliance (AILA) in response to the new report drafted in 2022 by Ahmed Shaheed, the Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom or Belief.
Popular Culture And TheologyJon Stewart, AOC, and MLK’s Critique of the White Liberal
I wish there was a bold opposition party to stand against the Trump administration. The Democratic Party is not that party. I have a large number of Republican family members, who consume a large amount of conservative media. It has struck me as...
ReligionProfJohn’s Adoptionist Christology? Limits of AI Lit Reviews
At a recent gathering of local New Testament scholars here in Indianapolis, the question of whether the Gospel of John’s Christology might be adoptionist came up. In my own work on the Gospel of John, I looked closely at the few and often neglected...
Doctrine of DiscoveryInterim Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, initiates a critical conversation within the United Nations system and beyond on obstacles and opportunities facing indigenous peoples’ freedom of...
Doctrine of DiscoveryPreface and Introduction: From Indigenous Religions to Indigenous Values Vol. 5 No. 2
Abstract The Office of the External Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom or Belief contacted Philip P. Arnold, the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), and the American Indian Law Alliance (AILA), and asked us to join a call to give input on a...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineCreative Living: Imagination, Intention, and Grand Hospitality
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ReligionProfArtificial Intelligence and Plagiarism
Some people immediately associate artificial intelligence and plagiarism, going so far as to call LLM chatbots “plagiarism machines.” I have pushed back on that in the past, but some new evidence has me rethinking this. Artifically Intelligently...
Wabash Center BlogLook to the Stars
My friend Kenneth Ngwa and I have ongoing conversations about impossible questions concerning the current malaise of education. How do you make your way and guide others when there is […]
Doctrine of DiscoveryEditorial Address & Advisory Board
Abstract The second issue of volume five of the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR) is a special issue, From Indigenous ‘Religions’ to Indigenous Values. Planned and realized in collaboration with Philip P. Arnold (Syracuse...
ReligionProfCalls for Papers and Butler University Day of Giving
I will start with a call for papers for the American Academy of Religion’s Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program unit and the Society of Biblical Literature’s John the Baptist program unit, but even if those do not interest you, please keep...
Barth NotesMail on Sunday Sensationalises on Problematic Police Response to Harassment Complaint
A much-discussed front-page splash from the Mail on Sunday: In a chilling clampdown on free speech, two police officers pay a visit to a grandmother – simply for criticising Labour politicians on Facebook. Detectives were last night accused of...
ReligionProfReligious Experience and Psychedelics
There’s a story behind how we ended up hosting a public lecture at Butler University on “Religious Experience and Psychedelics” and this is it. I was interviewed by Butler University’s student newspaper, The Butler Collegian, about this upcoming...
An und für sichTurbulence
On our flight home from Rome, we hit some turbulence — the borderline scary kind that turns your stomach and elicits the occasional gasp. I am a pretty seasoned traveller, so it would take much more than that to make me really fear for my safety....
ReligionProfSeverance, Jesus, and the Soul: A Sci-Fi Thought Experiment
Led To Severance By Jesus I did not expect the latest episode of Severance to feature a character saying that he had been led to severance by Jesus. I have been watching Severance avidly since it first aired. Such an interesting concept, not unlike...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineDiversity of Sexuality in Islam: Interview with Imam Muhsin Hendricks
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Barth NotesGB News Smears Muslim Woman Who Met Keir Starmer
From GB News: ‘Did nobody vet this lady? Why does she have direct access to our Prime Minister?!’ @PatrickChristys reacts to Keir Starmer meeting with “Muslim leaders” to discuss his “plans for change”, including Saima Aslam, who tweeted in 2015...
Andrew WhiteheadSometimes the Bravest Thing We Have Is Hope
On learning, living, and loving in the shadow of empire.
The Other JournalTemptation or Tool
In October 2017, in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in US history, Bishop Ian Douglas of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut took part in a panel interview as a member of Bishops Against Gun Violence. There, Douglas spoke frankly of...
Indigenous Values InitiativeOnondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future: The Quest For Justice
Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future: The Quest for Justice Monday, March 10, 6:30 pm Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse Come commemorate the 20th anniversary of the historic filing of the Onondaga Land Rights Action. Onondaga...
An und für sichLaw and Justice
Agamben is best known for his critique of sovereign emergency powers and their tendency to reduce all legal subjects to a homo sacer-like state of absolute exposure to violence. But in more recent years, he has written more often about a seemingly...
Sowing the SeedCFPs: SCRIPT @ AAR and SBL 2025
Tis the season for Call for Papers, or as we sometimes call them, CFPs. I’ll sharing here some of the CFPs coming to my desk and why I think you might consider submitting a proposal. The first one up is for the Society of Comparative Research on...
Doctrine of DiscoveryOnondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future:The Quest for Justice
Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future:The Quest for Justice Details Monday, March 10, 6:30 pm Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse Come commemorate the 20th anniversary of the historic filing of the Onondaga Land Rights Action. Onondaga...
American Indian Law AllianceOnondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future
Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future: The Quest For Justice Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future: The Quest for Justice Monday, March 10, 6:30 pm Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse Come commemorate the 20th anniversary of… The...
Barth NotesConspiracy Groups at Farmers’ Protests Again
From the Evening Standard, a week ago: Farmers will stage another tractor protest outside Parliament on Monday as they continue their campaign against changes to inheritance tax rules. The tractor rally, organised by Save British Farming, comes as...
Religion MattersRamadan Book Recommendations for Kids in Schools
Guest Post: Vicki Garlock, founder World Religions 4 Kids Ramadan is a month-long Islamic holy period that begins with the sighting of the new moon. During the month, observant Muslims fast during daylight hours, read the entire Qur’an, connect...
Religion MattersAction Research Project: Teaching about Religion with the Religious Studies Companion Document for the C3 Framework (RSCD)
Tim Hall, Ph.D. Religious literacy education has not traditionally received sustained pedagogical attention. This state of affairs changed in 2017 with the publication of the Religious Studies Companion Document for the C3 Framework (RSCD),...
Reading ReligionReading Religion Newsletter Vol. 10, Issue 1
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers, In celebration of Black History Month, the editors at Reading Religion have highlighted a selection of thought-provoking reviews and available books that explore Black religious thought, theology, and history. ...
Barth NotesA Note on the Lucy Letby Wars
From Mary Dejevsky at the Spectator: Let me put my own cards on the table. I have no view on, or sense of, Letby’s innocence or guilt. I was not in the courtroom; I followed the case through media reports. As an ingrained sceptic and questioner of...
An und für sichThe Gospel according to Jay and Silent Bob
[spoilers ahead] The protagonist of Kevin Smith’s Dogma, the last living descendant of Mary, mother of Jesus, is named Bethany. It’s standard practice in this kind of apocalyptic film for names to mean something, and Dogma seems in general to bear...
Reading ReligionFour Books on Paul and Something Else
By J. Andrew Doole If you want to publish a bestseller on Paul, one strategy is to consider him alongside—or in the context of—something else, such as N.T. Wright’s Paul... READ MORE The post Four Books on Paul and Something Else appeared first on...
The Other JournalLoving Money Is Not a Private Affair
For everything the Bible says about money and possessions, its message can be ambivalent. As Walter Brueggemann puts it, “One can find in Scripture almost anything on the topic one wants to find,” and the Bible’s discussions of wealth and...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineHope as a Reading Practice
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The Domination ChroniclesOn the Mandatory Potentially Lethal Injections
Let’s examine the phrase “mandatory vaccines.”
An und für sichReassessing the threat to democracy
As I have been writing my posts on the relationship between Trump and neoliberalism, a feeling of futility has sometimes set in. Who cares about this abstract question amid all the wreckage he has already created? My first response to such a demand...
NAASRNAASR CFP 2025
Interlocutions II: The Extra/Ordinary “There is nothing more difficult to convey than reality in all its ordinariness.” (Pierre Bourdieu, On Television, 1998) “Crisis is not exceptional to history or consciousness but a process embedded in the...
NAASRMethod and Theory: CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS – FEBRUARY 2025 – METHOD AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION See the full CFP here. The editors of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (MTSR) would like to announce calls forpapers on four special topics: 1) On Money, 2) The...
Church HistoryCFP: British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century Working Group
When: June 21, 2025 in Bath Submit abstract and brief bio by: March 31, 2025 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate the American Revolution. Not only a period of geopolitical upheaval, it saw a transformation in the theologies and...
Religion MattersSoul Hunters: Siberia and the Spirit World
Guest Blog: Jane Fitzpatrick, Contributing Writer for Religion Matters Danish anthropologist Rane Willerslev documented his personal experiences with a group of Siberian hunters called the Upper Kolyma Yukaghirs in his book, Soul Hunters. He...
Popular Culture And TheologyCall for Papers: Religion and AI Romance in Popular Media
Title – Religion and AI Romance in Popular Media: Wired for Love Edited by: Amanda Furiasse, Nova Southeastern University As AI-driven love stories become increasingly central to cultural narratives, they provoke fundamental questions about love,...
Religion in United States HistoryJews in Space on Screen! Zoom Event with Professor Jenny Caplan
Join Jenny Caplan, Associate Professor and The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, on Monday, February 10, 2025 at 7 PM eastern for a discussion on "Jews in Space on Screen!" Amy Weiss, Assistant...
Religion Link27 sources on education and ‘church-state separation’ under Trump
Popular Culture And TheologyCall for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max
Call for contributions Title: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max: Rising from the Ashes Edited by: Yael Thomas Cameron, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Vernon W. Cisney, Gettysburg College, and Jon Hoskin, Phd. Mad Max is a...
Mapping the Doctrine of DiscoveryS05E06: Rethinking Our Values: Indigenous Values for a Sustainable Future
In this special lecture episode, host Philip P. Arnold explores the urgent need for a value change for survival
affecognitiveKornbluh’s Immediacy or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Verso Press listed Anna Kornbluh’s 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To …Continue reading →
The Other JournalConfessions of a Rich Young Ruler
The theological case that the gospel makes a claim upon our money and our shared economic life has already been convincingly made, for anyone with ears to hear. From Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman to Cornel West and Delores Williams, Black...
Religion in United States HistoryCall for Applicants: Feinstein Center at Temple University
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American Indian Law AlliancePress Release on Immigration
For Immediate Release The American Indian Law Alliance takes very seriously the safety of all Indigenous Peoples. We have seen the ICE raids directed by the Trump Administration happening across the country and have heard of reports that many...
Religion in United States HistoryCFP: Redd Center Grants for Scholarship on the Intermountain West
The BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies annual awards and funding season is upon us!