Sen. Bernie Sanders calls Abdul El-Sayed's win "one of most extraordinary victories in modern American political history." "He withstood $70M of outside funding. He was outspent 9-to-1," he says. Plus establishment Dems in MI and DC opposed him. "Never heard" of a major candidate overcoming that.

My heartfelt congratulations to Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan.

Even if your congregation has no tradition of singing metrical psalms, nothing prevents you from taking them up in your own practice of daily prayer. Michael Morgan’s revised Psalter for Christian Worship (WJK, 2019) is a remarkable and profoundly underutilized resource for exactly this.

My kind of folk music. And the seas they will burn / The sun, it will dry the ocean up / If I never return, my love, to you Come you back, my own true love / Still, I will wait, if I've had a friend on this earth / You've been a friend to me, you've been a friend to me

10,000 Miles

YouTube video by Bonny Light Horseman - Topic

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Helpful generalization - two kinds of Reformed Christians: 1) Reads Marilynne Robinson, listens to José González, probably owns a cat 2) Reads what Crossway publishes, listens to CCM, probably thinks cats are gay (and that’s bad)

People saying that Bluesky is a “leftist bubble” suggests that people don’t know what the word “leftist“ means.

I’m so sorry but 1/3/2 is the objectively correct answer. I won’t be taking further questions at this time.

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Meeting with several really cool people tomorrow. Love it when I‘m looking forward to meetings!

The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.

John Carter Brown Library@jcblibrary.bsky.social · 2d ago

Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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Congratulations to Prof. Brower on this important work.

Columbia University Press@columbiaup.bsky.social · 2d ago

We are pleased to announce that Benjamin Claude Brower's THE COLONIZATION OF NAMES is the winner of the 2026 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society. buff.ly/497y1dZ #Colonialism #France #Algeria #ReadUP @frenchcolonial.bsky.social

Finally getting around to packing up my theology library. Seems like people have a lot to say about St. Paul.

It's considered bipartisan business as usual to treat the UAE as a good and trusted ally. Courting them and taking their blood money does not count as "authoritarian apologism" but God forbid you post something about Chinese trains

In an interview with @patrickweil.bsky.social, Favret-Saada revisits the 1835 Rivière parricide, editing the memoir Foucault‘s 1973 team left untouched and recentering the mother, Victoire, whose refusal of “wifely duties“ exposes how gender domination is inculcated (and sometimes fails). In French.

Continuer Foucault ? | Le Grand Continent

L’historien Patrick Weil s’entretient avec l’anthropologue qui, cinquante ans plus tard, rouvre le cas Rivière.

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“The media simply can’t discuss a work of literature without pointing to some writer-hero. And yet there is no work of literature that is not the fruit of tradition, of many skills, of a sort of collective intelligence.” — Elena Ferrante

Perhaps the most Barthian hymn in our hymnal. We sang this at church today.

The NYC Gay Men's Chorus in 1993. The men in white were the only original chorus members to make it out of the AIDS crisis. We lost SO many young people.

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ@soberthots.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Hearing Jennifer Lewis talk about the losses she experienced during the AIDS crisis really contextualizes how bad it was. She said that every day she would get a phone call saying at least 3-5 people passed away, and this is just within her immediate circle - think about it nationally.

The city of Spokane is on fire.

this is incredibly abnormal and scary. always a possibility this decade, extremely bizarre to experience in real time. we’ve got important stuff loaded in the car, not going anywhere at the moment because by all accounts traffic is already very bad www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city

A wildfire driven by high winds has jumped the Spokane River and is threatening neighborhoods near and within the city of Spokane.

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I wrote about a common defense strategy used by those trying to protect evangelicalism, or evangelical institutions, and how those same strategies are deployed to protect other conservative or postliberal organizations and figures—and why we should reject it. open.substack.com/pub/dwcongdo...

On the Elusive Quest for Innocence

My response to an all-too-common defense of conservative and postliberal figures and institutions

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Best rebuttal for people citing Weber to talk about Protestantism and capitalism. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Don’t read a book from 1905 to learn about Calvin and his vision for human flourishing. Publicly shaming the rich and assuring everyone has enough to eat is my religion.

I had the pleasure of listening to a performance of Skye‘s “Prisms, Cycles, Leaps“ at UCLA‘s Royce Hall in 2015. Skye then went by a different surname. The performance preceded Schubert‘s Unfinished.

Tillich was more or less correct about sin (cf. vol. II of his Systematic Theology). Sin really ought not to mean a discrete act of transgression. It refers instead to our alienation from God and one another, and our self-estrangement.

Whate’er my God ordains is right: / here shall my stand be taken; / though sorrow, need, or death be mine, / yet am I not forsaken. / My Father’s care is round me there; / he holds me that I shall not fall: / and so to him I leave it all. – Samuel Rodigast (1675), tr. Catherine Winkworth (1863)

Sweet Comfort

YouTube video by Sandra McCracken - Topic

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”Whenever it occurs…pessimism…introduces humility into thought. It undermines the…self-aggrandizing postures that constitute the human being. Pessimism is the humility of the species that has named itself, thought furtively stumbling upon its own limitations on black wings of futility.“ – Thacker

My copy of the Revised Common Lectionary Expanded Daily Readings has arrived. This is incredibly nerdy, but I couldn't be more excited. The RCL-EDR adds daily gospel readings to the lectionary, which facilitates daily prayer in a much more straightforward way than the previous edition.

You all could probably guess how insufferable I was during the first few years of grad school.

This came out on July 28, edited by Daniele Lorenzini. 600+ pages! Grateful that I have digital access through my library. Highlights I'm seeing from the TOC: chapters from Elisabetta Basso, Arnold I. Davidson, Niki Kasumi Clements, Stuart Elden, David M. Halperin, and Bernard E. Harcourt.

I threw this together when a friend asked me to explain some of the theoretical considerations animating my research. It’s on my blog, and not in my diss (thankfully), because it is virtually unreadable unless you’re deeply invested in Bourdieu and Foucault. Apologies in advance; hope it helps some!

Resemblance Is Not Structure

Historians routinely flatten analogy and homology into near-synonymy, but the two concepts make claims of fundamentally different kinds, and recovering the distinction changes what a historical argume...

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