Religion in United States HistoryFor 20 years, the Presbyterian Historical Society’s Research Fellowship Program has awarded annual research and travel grants to eligible scholars, students, and independent researchers in a broad range of fields including mission history, social...
Mapping the Doctrine of DiscoveryThis episode emphasizes the complexities surrounding Indigenous rights, law, and spirituality, centering on Michael McNally's insights from his book Defend the Sacred. It discusses the limitations of current legal frameworks in protecting Native...
Sowing the SeedThe little experiment that could is going strong into 2025. Here's a recap of our 2024 season of Off-Script: Conversations on Scriptures, Scholarship, and Our Subfield. And come learn about our new Off-Script listserv and Sowing the Seed newsletter.
Barth NotesFrom the Daily Express: Sky News uproar as star ‘tells producers to cut audio’ during Southport interview Sky News’ Sarah-Jane Mee sparked outrage after she was caught ordering her producer to cut a conversation as she reported live outside...
affecognitiveHistorically, laziness, or sloth (as my Puritan ancestors might call it) counts as one of the “seven deadly sins,” meaning …Continue reading →
Barth NotesFrom a statement by Reform leader Nigel Farage MP: Reform UK are today calling for the Director of Public Prosecutions at the CPS to resign. The judge made clear in his sentencing that Axel Rudakubana had a detailed interest in genocides and...
Religion MattersGuest Post: Susan Katz-Miller and Dalia El Ariny What do you think of when you hear the word “interfaith”? Perhaps your town gathers people of different religions for an annual Thanksgiving service. Or, maybe you get together more regularly, for...
Sowing the SeedHappy to share that my study notes on the Letter of Paul to Philemon are out now in the Westminster John Knox's NRSV-UE Study Bible.
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Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Alexiana Fry. I had the pleasure of recently presenting alongside several others at a conference called “Barbie and the Bible: Conversations in Pop Culture, Gender, and Theology,” put on by Fuller Seminary and the University of Dayton. In...
Reading ReligionDear Reading Religion Subscribers, Our 2025 is off to a great start here at Reading Religion. The editors have curated a Best of 2024 Reading List and published the year’s first “Four Books” feature. In... READ MORE The post Reading Religion...
Religion MattersGuest Post: Elsa Kunz, History Department, The Webb School This semester, I have the privilege of teaching a high school elective about lived religion in the contemporary United States. For many of my students, if not all, this course will be their...
Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Tamisha Tyler, EFSR Co-Editor In the Summer of 2023, American audiences were delighted with the new Barbie movie. The film not only sparked nostalgia in its audiences, but it also served as a take on women’s empowerment and discovery. Its...
Andrew WhiteheadExploring the paradox of the American Christian Right emphasizing "character" in political leaders while enthusiastically supporting characters like Trump.
Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Jaeda Calaway. She stands with hands raised to each side, crayon marks on her face, an ill-fitting dress with paint stains, and hair haphazardly cut short. She is “Weird Barbie.” She offers “Stereotypical Barbie” a choice represented by the...
The Other JournalChurches don’t close because they lose their vision (or fulfill it), and they don’t close when they get too small. Churches close their doors when they run out of money. Often the demise of a congregation is dressed up in other language, but the...
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies2025.01.03 | Todd D. Still and David E. Wilhite. The Apologists and Paul. Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate. London: T&T Clark, 2024. Pp. xiv + 346. ISBN: 9780567715456. Review by Jonathon Lookadoo, Presbyterian University and Theological...
Religion in United States HistoryBrigham Young University Religious Education and the Moral Education Professorship
affecognitiveOn this past New Year’s Eve (2024), The New York Times published Rukmini Callimachi’s article, “One Set of China. Five …Continue reading →
Reading ReligionBy Maxwell Kennel Anabaptist and Mennonite studies is a broad interdisciplinary conversation with distinct subfields and institutions with differing approaches to its study, several of which intersect with the scholarly... READ MORE The post Four...
The Other JournalHave you witnessed the moment when a young mother first sees her newborn child? Mother is holding her infant to herself, gazing into their face in rapture, smiling a joyous, self-giving, surprise-filled, welcome. Recently I learned from a seasoned...
The Other JournalI want to begin by thanking Esther Meek for her reflections on, as she describes it, the encounter of oneself with the other. In her sensitive essay, Meek describes the “primal encounter” between mother and infant that sets the foundation for...
The Other JournalI am grateful for the opportunity to interact with Esther Meek’s thoughts around the significance of the other and the real, all of which are a gift to the school. In her essay, she invites us to consider the importance of the early “face-to-face...
The Other JournalOh, how I long for the day as stated in Galatians 3:28-29 (Christian Standard Bible version) when “there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”[1] Quite often, when...
The Other JournalInvariably, in the opening weeks of my introductory biblical studies classes, a student will share that they are there because they want to know the “truth” about the Bible and about what “really happened.”[1] It eventually becomes clear they have...
The Other JournalEsther Meek in “The Other: Returning to Our Natal Philosophy in the Mother’s Smile” invites us into a relational knowing that is deeply dependent on and indebted to the other. Meek defines this other as “another being—the world, a person or...
Sowing the SeedHow do we choose to remember historical events? With dates like January 6, 2021, we have a lot to learn from seeing them as timelines and constellations.
Sowing the SeedWhat do AI and large language models say about us? What I'm learning from Nathan Loewen and Don Kraybill.
Religion in United States HistoryCall For Proposals: Special Issue of Journal of Mormon History
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies2025.01.02 | Thea Gomelauri (with a contribution by Joseph Ginsberg). The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry (Oxford, UK: Taylor Institution Library, 2023). Review by Teófilo Correa, Adventist International Institute of Advance Studies...
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Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies2025.01.01 | Dragos Andrei Giulea. Antioch, Nicaea, and the Synthesis of Constantinople: Revisiting Trajectories in the Fourth-Century Christological Debates. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 200. Brill, 2024. 309 pp. Review by Ched...
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NABPR‘A Mighty Oak Has Fallen.’ The work of Jimmy Carter, especially his post-presidential efforts for global peace and reconciliation, as well as his active role in Habitat for Humanity, gave many of us a reason to be grateful for our Baptist heritage...
American Indian Law AllianceSyracuse.com Editorial Op-Ed To the Editor: What a delight to read Steve Featherstone’s feature article about the long-overdue return of 1,000 acres in the Tully Valley to the Onondaga Nation. Hearing several of our Onondaga neighbors share what...
RSN PodcastAmerican Secularism and Its Believers with Charles McCrary by American Academy of Religion
Religion MattersGuest Post: Vicki Garlock, Founder of World Religions 4 Kids Hanukkah, often called the Jewish festival of lights, lasts for eight days and nights. The most obvious ritual practice is lighting a menorah. According to tradition, a small band of...
Andrew WhiteheadNew research shows Christian nationalism resides in a constellation of social fears about ethno-racial purity and the perceived loss of individual autonomy
Sowing the SeedHow do we build institutionally resilient programs for the study of religion, ones that will stand now and tomorrow? We get tools that work. Let's open up the REL Toolbox.
The Immanent FrameCheck out The Immanent Frame‘s ten most-read essays of 2024! This year’s essays were featured in the forums “Ruinations: Violence in these times” and “Experimental books.” Others were standalone essays, previously published on TIF but appearing...
Religious Studies ProjectWelcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through...
Reading ReligionBy Tuve Floden How can professors prepare their students for work inside or outside of academia? How can students get the most out of their time in graduate school? Good... READ MORE The post Four Books on Research, Writing, and Graduate Study...
Religion Link Religious Studies ProjectWelcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 11 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 3 calls for papers, and 1 conference/speaker. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the...
Studying Religion in CultureEach year, the weekend before Thanksgiving is the time for an academic conference bringing together scholars of religion. In fact, it is a set of conferences, including the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the...
Andrew WhiteheadReflections on this Advent season and the tension between power at the expense of our neighbors versus for the benefit of our neighbors
Religious Studies ProjectWelcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 17 new job opportunities and 3 other opportunities. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal...
The Immanent FrameThe Immanent Frame has been a leading platform for groundbreaking public scholarship on secularism and religion since its founding in 2007. This call invites essays that address US politics and religion, broadly construed, in contemporary or...
Religion MattersGuest Blog: Scott M. Petri, Ed.D. A Ross Douthat editorial in the NY Times entitled Is The World Ready for a Religious Comeback? posits that the decline of religious practice is increasingly seen as a social problem. He then cites a study that...
Sowing the SeedI am pleased to annouce that the Department of Religious Studies at the Unviersity of Alabama is hiring, and that I am chairing the search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Computational Study of Religion.