Joshua Tom

@joshctom.bsky.social

Sociologist and Professor at Seattle Pacific University, with unimpeachable judgment regarding my social media presence

Something the parenting books don't prepare you for is that Paw Patrol doesn't take place in a dog society, it takes place in a human society that has outsourced essential services *to* dogs.

I often think about this quote from Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday", which illuminates so much about our current moment. For my own research interests, the most damning indictment I can make about evangelical political culture is that it creates the kinds of cowards who admire great force.

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The thing I'm looking forward to the most about our second daughter arriving is the wholly unearned adulation I will receive for being a father holding a baby while existing in public.