Cultural Studies BlogspotNo Biceps, Please: We’re FunctionalIs there a more maligned resistance exercise than the poor old biceps curl? It is held up as the very exemplar of so many frowned-upon things: it’s a vanity exercise, they say; an isolation exercise; an...
Religion UnpluggedLand of Milk and Honey Farms in Deep Gap, North Carolina — nestled in a mountainous region called the High Country — has found a niche: Faith-based agritourism, offering visitors nature, serenity and even cuddle sessions with lambs. The farm’s...
Religion UnpluggedMatthew Peterson speaks with reporter Joseph Maina about how African AI developers are using their skills to in church services and how pastors view the rise of artificial intelligence.
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraWhere’s the government support for people who need help having babies? The post Fertility Treatments Should Not Be a Luxury Good first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsWhere’s the government support for people who need help having babies? The post Fertility Treatments Should Not Be a Luxury Good first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Political TheologyWe invited Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, the author of Making a King: The Political Theology of Joan of Arc, and a prominent scholar of religion, to reflect on the poet Jake Rose’s new book JOAN. Next week, we will run an essay by Rose reflecting on...
The ConversationMary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.
The ConversationHospitals rely on ethics consultants to help navigate difficult decisions about life support, consent and a patient’s wishes when the path forward is unclear.
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Good Faith MediaAI does not replace what you know. It reveals whether you know anything at all. The post ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2,’ AI, and Becoming Human Again appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Good Faith MediaAre we squandering our gifts, diminishing, defacing and destroying Mother Earth, which provides all we need for sustained life? The post Squandering Our Gifts Amid Majestic Beauty appeared first on Good Faith Media.
PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia Good Faith MediaI find it comical that modern evangelical Christians think they’ve made theological choices that exempt them from the whole of Christian history and tradition. The post ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and the Evangelical Illusion of an Unfiltered Faith...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) It seemed inevitable that the first encyclical from the first American pope, the forward-looking and worldly-wise Leo XIV, would focus on the growing furor over artificial intelligence. The pope’s encyclical comes as the culmination...
Feminism and ReligionIn late November I first snowshoed our woodland trails to include the little balsam that I lit to honor all evergreens throughout the winter months. Every day when my little dog and I circled the tree I told her I loved her and called her...
Cultural Studies BlogspotMorningThe lengthening days, the fresh morning air and growing sense of firmness to the drying ground called me into my garden much more often in May. Life spills outside more in summer. This year, the puppy intensified all this – needing to be up...
Andrew WhiteheadHow Age, Politics, and Religion Shape Americans’ Views of Democracy
Ancient Jew ReviewThe Rise of Talmud Review Forum with Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Maren Niehoff, Ishay Rosen-Zvi and response from Moulie Vidas.
Ancient Jew ReviewThe Bavli might remain the most celebrated rabbinic work, but the Yerushalmi was the first of its kind. The Bavli, in a sense, becomes less unique through Moulie’s reading, and “the Talmud” is re-situated within its late antique Palestinian...
The ConversationLatter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its boundaries.
PaleoJudaicia Political TheologyJesus presents himself as a physician, and offers one of his most programmatic statements of ethics. The sick need a doctor, not the healthy. Why then does church seem designed for the already well? Source
PaleoJudaicia Feminism and ReligionThis was originally posted on August 11, 2014 Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza articulated a widely held tenet of feminist theology when she stated that feminism places a question mark over all inherited texts and traditions. This means that feminists...
Feminism and ReligionI’ve climbed on a stool (which I swore I wouldn’t do again after having a bad fall while helping a friend paint a bathroom ceiling) and up onto the washing machine. A cabinet door just above has come unhinged (not unlike this author). I have...
Du Mez CONNECTIONSA historiographical interlude
Political TheologyThis essay is part of a series on Neena Mahadev's Karma and Grace. Source
Feminism and ReligionIn the landscape of mid-twentieth-century children’s literature, C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia initially appears remarkably progressive. Long before modern fantasy embraced the trope of the fiercely independent heroine, Lewis gives us the...
Sowing the SeedGoing into the new month with some not-so-light reading. One of my students asked me how I read, and this picture encapsulates my process pretty well. I scan a work, its arguments and its structure. Then I write in the margins questions of...
Religion in United States HistoryLINK The American Religion Dissertation Prize, awarded by the journal American Religion and sponsored by Indiana University’s Center for Religion and the Human, recognizes outstanding dissertation writing in the field broadly understood as...
Feminism and ReligionThere’s that throbbing again! In the slit center of me. Spreading vehemently, devouring, insatiable, red like blood and warm like body. They say I’m Jezebel because I like it when she purrs. 𖦹 ‘Now you can get pregnant.’ I became a woman but all...
Cultural Studies BlogspotWe probably would not know what a wrong statement would be if we did not know what a pair of ill-fitting pants felt like. (Peter Sloterdijk)BagginessI’m in the gym. The workout is going ok. The weights feel … ohhhhh-kayyyy… ish. But something feels...
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Ancient Jew ReviewWorking with Manuscripts is a fundamentally practical companion, in both form and content.
The ConversationThe timing of the offer was thorny because it coincided with the US indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro.
Canopy ForumOtes Manor House where John Locke spent the last fourteen years of his life via Wellcome Library, London (CC BY 4.0). John Locke insisted that toleration and a secular approach to politics would be good for religion. He argued that coerced belief...
Contending ModernitiesThe ethnocultural empathic turn names a pattern of transformation in which religious actors, institutions, and narratives shift away from the ethnoreligious production of boundaries and toward practices of public responsibility. The post The...
Political TheologyThis essay is part of the Discourses in Spirituality Round Robin. Source
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Feminism and ReligionPart 1 was posted yesterday The Minnesota resistance went far beyond Gene Sharp’s catalog of techniques. Minnesotans kept their resistance up through creativity, celebration, fun, and humor in those dark, cold days. On a cold, clear January...
Cultural Studies Blogspot… all the sexual, psychic, somatic recycling institutes, which proliferate in California, belong to the same order. People no longer look at each other, but there are institutes for that. They no longer touch each other, but there is...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraA Jewish vision for AI rejects grand promises in favor of small steps toward a better world The post Tikkun Olam, One Prompt at a Time first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsA Jewish vision for AI rejects grand promises in favor of small steps toward a better world The post Tikkun Olam, One Prompt at a Time first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Feminism and ReligionMulford would have been proud. Mulford Q. Sibley was Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He was also my PhD advisor and dear friend. A nationally known scholar of political thought, his particular interest and focus was...
Political TheologyScholar, activist, and minister Colin Bossen discusses his new book with Michael McLaughlin, shining light on how inclusive visions of populism can draw on religion to deepen democracy Source
The ConversationOther communication techniques can help move disagreement past attacks and sound bites.
An und für sichSu Fang Ng makes (I think) a pretty compelling case that that Hobbes ‘rejects the story of Lucretia’s rape as the foundational myth of Rome in favour of the wolf suckling Remus and Romulus, which represents a more monarchical aetiological myth of...
Ancient Jew Review“Throughout, the book keeps in focus the materiality of manuscripts and the embodied aspects of the craft of manuscript research. Although subtitled “A Guide for Textual Scholars,” this volume insists that we can neither sever ancient text from...
The ConversationLeo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.