I spoke to journalist Alaina Demopoulos for this piece on a conservative Christian podcast.

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‘Demonic oppression’ and ‘girly convos’: the podcast wooing young women back to Christianity

Scams targeting authors continue to rise so here's some useful tips to help you spot the scammers 🕵 uncpressblog.com/2026/08/27/p...

Protecting Authors from Publishing Scams  - UNC Press Blog

UNC Press authors are receiving more scam emails and messages offering book promotion, reviews, book club appearances, podcast interviews, film and television opportunities, marketing services, and ot...

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My biography of Rachel Held Evans will be out in March. I was honored to write it and hope it demonstrates her important role in twenty-first century Christianity. www.eerdmans.com/978080288442...

On the Days When I Believe

Meet the millennial woman who changed American Christianity.Rachel Held Evans was one of the most influential Christians of her generation. Raised in the hea...

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"Pastors in Name Only" "Wicked Witch of Woke" “I've never seen anyone commit so much blasphemy against the word of God." As pastors become Democratic nominees — at least 5 so far, and likely one more tonight — their Republican opponents are attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...

'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith

(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...

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I’m curious what other college educators think about how Gen Z’s lack of perceived efficacy pertains to the classroom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/o...

Opinion | Gen Z Fell Out of Love With Work. I Don’t Blame Them. (Gift Article)

For Gen Z college graduates, the way millennials lived out their ambitions no longer makes sense.

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Check out "The Scandal of Rachel Held Evans’s Evangelical Mind" by Kelsey Hanson Woodruff in the December 2025 issue of Church History! @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I just listened to this great interview with @wmstell.bsky.social.

The Revealer@therevealer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW podcast episode: "Evangelicals & Queer Activism" What's the history of evangelical queer activism? @wmstell.bsky.social, author of Born Again Queer (@princetonupress.bsky.social) discusses what gay evangelical activists set out to achieve & what happened next. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify

My new article out in Church History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump’s Gaze

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The last year has been a big one for Catholic clergy born in Illinois. New from me: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

U.S. Archbishop Will Be Beatified, One Step Away From Sainthood

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Are women's rights more at risk than we thought? Another great essay from @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ruthbrau...

Are women's rights more at risk than we thought?

On the Handmaid's Tale, glass vs. rubber balls, and singing in the shower

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Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Last post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/

2025 was another great year for Religion & American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation! We saw a variety of article topics including health, tourism, media, and more! Check out the three issues that were released this year and the most read articles of this year!

I started this podcast today and plan to assign a few episodes to my students in the Spring! An exceptional example of public scholarship.

Samira K. Mehta@samirakmehta.bsky.social · 9mo ago

On this World AIDS Day, I would like to recommend a spectacular podcast about #theChurchWithAIDS. Lynne Gerber has created "When We All Get to Heaven," which is available through Slate and details the Metropolitan Community Church in the Castro during the AIDS crisis. slate.com/podcasts/whe...

This exhibit by James Bielo is really cool. Stop by today at #aarsbl25 if you haven’t seen it yet!

James Bielo@secondhandsacred.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Traveling light to @aarsbl25 this year. Secondhand Sacred will be at booth #430 Sat-Monday morning: swing by and say hi, listen to cassettes, click through View-Master slides, peer through a stereoscope, flip through vinyl and postcards and much more! #aarsbl25 #secondhandsacred

okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Mac Loftin on the publication of his timely and beautifully written book. @harvarddivinity.bsky.social

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to write this tribute on the late Dr. Phyllis Trible for @baptistnews.com. She gave many of us permission: baptistnews.com/article/reme...

Remembering Phyllis Trible – Baptist News Global

Driven by love, she sought to reclaim and restore texts that often were rendered more sexist due to (male) scholars’ chauvinism.

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Save the date! The Center will once again be hosting our annual reception at the 2025 Annual Meetings of #AAR Join us Sunday Nov. 23rd at 8pm at the Westin Copley Place in the Huntington Ballroom! Learn more and pre-register here: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/aar-2025/

It’s great to see students thinking about this. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

My article, “Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004-2024” is out with Religion and American Culture. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted to see David Hempton’s book, Christianity at the Crossroads, out in the world. I was a research assistant several years ago for his Gifford Lectures, on which this book is based.

Virginia Tech, the University of Oregon, Indiana University have all proposed cuts to religious studies programs. Why?

Why Religious Studies Is in Trouble

As colleges plan to make cuts, departments in this field are finding themselves on the chopping block.

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“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

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I’m excited to teach my new course, “Celebrity and Charisma in American Christianity,” this fall at Harvard Divinity School!

The Scopes trial turns 100 this month. Kelsey Hanson Woodruff writes about the legacy of the Scopes trial in Dayton, TN, and how one resident, Rachel Held Evans, tried to push evangelicalism beyond Young Earth creationism's culture war battle lines. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Rachel Held Evans And The Specter Of Scopes In Dayton

For Rachel Held Evans, living in Dayton, Ohio--of Scopes Trial fame--was a way to combat the legacy of fundamentalism in evangelicalism.

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More than 12,000 Harvard alumni, 21 state attorneys general, and two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed or plan to file amicus briefs backing Harvard in its court battle with the Trump administration, court records showed.

21 state attorneys general, multiple universities, alumni to back Harvard in court battle against Trump - The Boston Globe

Two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, plan to file an amicus brief, including six that joined the coalition in a filing Monday, court records show.

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My international colleagues contribute to the excellent research and the intellectual vibrancy of the university. This is an attack on every classroom, seminar room, and laboratory at Harvard. It is an attempt to dismantle America’s higher education system at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Shock at Harvard After Government Says International Students Must Go

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A beautiful tribute by my advisor Catherine Brekus to her colleague Martin Marty. arcmag.org/remembering-...

Remembering Martin Marty | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

Martin E. Marty died on February 25, 2005. He was ninety-seven years old. Marty Marty, as he always introduced himself, was an ordained Lutheran minister, an editor and columnist for The Christian Cen...

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Harvard University faculty sue to block Trump review of nearly $9bn in funding

Harvard University faculty sue to block Trump review of nearly $9bn in funding

Lawsuit filed along with motion for temporary restraining order calls threats an existential ‘gun to the head’

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