Happy Feast of St Benedict to all who celebrate. I’ve always loved how the prologue and ch 72 frame the rule. “We seek therefore to establish a school for the Lord’s service … and may he bring us all together to everlasting life.”
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
@jkrinder.bsky.social
Systematic Theologian sojourning in Texas. Pics of dogs and foster dogs.
Out of office message turned off. Sabbatical is officially over …
TT Job in Islam in my husband’s department at Trinity University- please pass on! trinity.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Trinit...
Assistant Professor of Religion - Islam
Job Family Group: Faculty Time Type: Full time Department/Office: Religion Exemption Status: Exempt Job Description: Trinity University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in t...
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A change for summer- last time I was anything near cleanshaven was probably 2017
Two weeks left (-ish), to submit for the North American Academy of Ecumenists. The CFP is here: bit.ly/2026NAAE. Please consider submitting a paper proposal. It's a great little conference. We have a few scholarships for grad students, contingent faculty and others without support.
This came up in the feed as I came across this in Magnifica Humanitas -- seems like the same concern from multiple sources.
Amelia Cervera 🍉@ameliacervera.eurosky.social · 2mo ago"The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement".
I feel like my lifetime has seen every institution I’m supposed to be invested in spending down its financial and reputational endowment as quickly as humanly possible —for no better reason than laziness and an attempt to reclaim a heyday that is only imagined to be good
Dropping a gift link so non-subscribers can access this fantastic story: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
How an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation’s Second-Largest Faith Group in His Image
Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook
texasmonthly.com
As promised! Here's the YouTube link to my Toth-Lonergan Lecture, delivered last Thursday, April 16 at Seton Hall University. Contains even more references to Mister Rogers than you might expect! youtu.be/sI1Ap_KQuks?...
Toth Lonergan Spring Lecture 2026: Jonathan Heaps, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Seton Hall University
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Interesting thing about expertise: you have it in limited areas. The academy is supposed to train a reflex of stepping back when someone else has more in an area. (Obviously some don’t. But it’s a thing people get made fun of for ) Weird how so many powerful people never learned that reflex
The CFP for the North American Academy of Ecumenists is now live -- due June 15th -- we are looking for papers considering the common good, ecotheology, and the world church in some relation to Christian unity. Full CFP at bit.ly/2026NAAE Some scholarships available for presenters w/o support
People should know about this. trinitonian.com/2026/04/09/j...
Islamic studies professor denied tenure, to file lawsuit - Trinitonian
After nearly nine years at Trinity, Sajida Jalalzai, assistant professor of religion, is leaving Trinity University this May. Hired on the tenure track in 2017, Provost Megan Mustain and President Vanessa Beasley denied Jalalzai tenure in February 2025, despite unanimous recommendations from the religion department and the Promotion and Tenure (P&T) Commission. Though Beasley cited
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Sometimes people object to a concept as ‘made up’ and I have bad news about where concepts come from.
Gave this talk last week for the Benedictine Institute here in Collegeville: "Receive Each Other: St. Benedict's Call to Neighbor Love". It starts with Benedict's call to "receive the stranger as Christ" and traces a pattern of mutual reception between community, outsiders, and God.
Lunch & Learn: Receive Each Other: Benedict’s Call to Love our Neighbor
The Rule calls communities to “receive each other” and to “receive strangers” as Christ. This powerful but quiet insistence serves as a fundamental call to community and to openness even in dangerous ...
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Sent my wife this image, and she yelled from the bedroom "WHEN?!"
If Candlemas Day be dry and fair, the half o’ winter’s to come and mair. If Candlemas Day be wet and foul, the half o’ winter’s gane at Yule. Oh well. At least it’s a pretty day.
Take a minute today to read @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social 's latest, an application of Lonergan to the present moment. As always, worth your attention www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-jonath...
VAP position in Islam at the university next door to mine if you know folks looking: trinity.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Trinit...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion - Islam
Job Family Group: Faculty Time Type: Full time Department/Office: Religion Exemption Status: Exempt Job Description: Trinity University seeks applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor (...
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Back from an excellent board meeting for the Collegeville Institute. Excited to see where our new leadership is going to take us! Thanks to United Sem of the Twin Cities for hosting!
Congratulations to CTSA member Mary Kate Holman @ Fairfield University on the publication of her book, Marie-Dominique Chenu: Catholic Theology for a Changing World.
If you are planning on attending AAR /SBL this fall here are the sessions of the Vatican II Studies Unit- should be a good lineup!
Organizers sent me a new digital flyer for @setonhall.bsky.social Law School’s “Faith, Values, & the Rule of Law Interdisciplinary Conference” Abstracts being accepted until Nov 1 & it’s basically across the street from the Newark train station.
This morning I was home alone with the dogs. Came into the living room to discover that someone (not me) had turned on the TV and started an episode of Archer. In other news, the puppy has decided that the TV remote looks like a chew toy.
Doing my annual required HR training today. Always annoying but I get why we do most of it. But I cannot figure out why everyone on campus needs to do a 40min training on how Cleary Act statistics are compiled Like that’s a huge amount of time to dedicate to something that’s like 10 peoples’ job
Catholic Bluesky world: If you’re active in any sort of ministry in & interested in deepening your experience of synodality, the Northampton, England-based School for Synodality runs free Zoom-based 3–part workshops & their next series starts Oct 8: www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/events/synod...
[OCTOBER] Synodality 101: Conversations in the Spirit Workshops — School for Synodality
Wednesdays 8th, 15th & 22nd October 2025 A series of 3 online workshops about how to facilitate spiritual conversations.
schoolforsynodality.org.uk
As the Fall gets rolling along, here's a reminder about this CFP
Jonathan Heaps@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · last yr.CFP: "Belief: Still Today's Issue" International Institute for Method in Theology Spring Colloquium (Philosophy Area) March 6-7, 2026 @ Marquette University
New foster! Meet Crumbs. She’s sweet and very smart. And deaf and a little stubborn, so training is gonna be important.
