Jacob J. Erickson
@jacobjerickson.bsky.social
professor | #Theology and #Ethics at Trinity College Dublin | #climatejustice | #queer 🏳️🌈 ecologies | #environmentalhumanities | he/him (opinions mine)
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Homebrewed Christianity Podcast: Jacob Erickson on Emerging Trends in Theology, Ethics, and Theological Education
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‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates
From Texas and Iowa to Arkansas, faith leaders are wading into politics to counter the rise of Christian nationalism
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November 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Join the Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit tomorrow morning as we celebrate the ecotheological legacy of H. Paul Santmire. Saturday 22nd Nov, 9am, Hynes Convention Center 209 @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Join the Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit tomorrow morning as we celebrate the ecotheological legacy of H. Paul Santmire. Saturday 22nd Nov, 9am, Hynes Convention Center 209 @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25
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NEW EMERGENCY SESSION AT #AARSBL25
"Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces"
4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208
Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.
"Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces"
4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208
Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
NEW EMERGENCY SESSION AT #AARSBL25
"Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces"
4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208
Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.
"Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces"
4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208
Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.
A Gay Woman Becomes New York’s Lutheran Bishop www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
A Gay Woman Becomes New York’s Lutheran Bishop
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November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A Gay Woman Becomes New York’s Lutheran Bishop www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
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Dr. Christine Helmer opens up the conference with her paper “The Theology and Politics of Luther’s Mysticism” and delivered a needed challenge to patriarchal scholarship erasing women’s voices 💪💪💪 #LutheranScholarsNetwork #LutherandMysticism #MartinLuther #AARSBL25
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Dr. Christine Helmer opens up the conference with her paper “The Theology and Politics of Luther’s Mysticism” and delivered a needed challenge to patriarchal scholarship erasing women’s voices 💪💪💪 #LutheranScholarsNetwork #LutherandMysticism #MartinLuther #AARSBL25
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Thanks so much to @nowhari.bsky.social for a great interview on COP30, Bill Gates, my new book, and more.
Pulitzer Prize Winner on Trump Climate Policy & Bill Gates’ Climate Reversal | Amanpour and Company
The COP30 climate conference is where world leaders try to hammer out solutions to the growing climate crisis. This year the U.S. also boycotted that gathering. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eliza...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thanks so much to @nowhari.bsky.social for a great interview on COP30, Bill Gates, my new book, and more.
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If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.
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Faith voices at COP30 call for strong climate action as a moral duty
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: actalliance.org/act-news/pr...
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Faith voices at COP30 call for strong climate action as a moral duty
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: actalliance.org/act-news/pr...
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Press conference at COP30: Faith voices at COP30 call for strong climate action as a moral duty - ACT Alliance
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November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Faith voices at COP30 call for strong climate action as a moral duty
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: actalliance.org/act-news/pr...
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Faith voices at COP30 call for strong climate action as a moral duty
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: actalliance.org/act-news/pr...
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Open postdoc position (2 years) in religion and migration in my ERC project ”Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical”. Deadline 15 Jan 2026 - come work in a fabulous team!
Postdoc in Migration Studies (2 years)
We are looking for a candidate who, during two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, wishes to develop their independence as a researcher and contribute
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November 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Open postdoc position (2 years) in religion and migration in my ERC project ”Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical”. Deadline 15 Jan 2026 - come work in a fabulous team!
Special Issue: The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...
VOLUME 21, NO 2 (2025)
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November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Special Issue: The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...
Interested in how theology intersects with real-world issues of justice and ethics?
Join our M.Phil in Theology and Social Justice webinar on Tues 11 Nov at 6.30pm (Irish Time).
You'll hear from lecturers & students and can take part in a Q&A. Register:
tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join our M.Phil in Theology and Social Justice webinar on Tues 11 Nov at 6.30pm (Irish Time).
You'll hear from lecturers & students and can take part in a Q&A. Register:
tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Study Theology and Social Justice at Trinity College Dublin. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The webinar will feature talks from course lecturers and current students. You will also have the chance to ask questions on admissions, course content, student experience, and future employability an...
tcd-ie.zoom.us
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Interested in how theology intersects with real-world issues of justice and ethics?
Join our M.Phil in Theology and Social Justice webinar on Tues 11 Nov at 6.30pm (Irish Time).
You'll hear from lecturers & students and can take part in a Q&A. Register:
tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join our M.Phil in Theology and Social Justice webinar on Tues 11 Nov at 6.30pm (Irish Time).
You'll hear from lecturers & students and can take part in a Q&A. Register:
tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Study Theology and Social Justice at Trinity College Dublin. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The webinar will feature talks from course lecturers and current students. You will also have the chance to ask questions on admissions, course content, student experience, and future employability an...
tcd-ie.zoom.us
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Interested in how theology intersects with real-world issues of justice and ethics?
Join our M.Phil in Theology and Social Justice webinar on Tues 11 Nov at 6.30pm (Irish Time).
You'll hear from lecturers & students and can take part in a Q&A. Register:
tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join our M.Phil in Theology and Social Justice webinar on Tues 11 Nov at 6.30pm (Irish Time).
You'll hear from lecturers & students and can take part in a Q&A. Register:
tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
In act of reparation, Franciscan sisters return land to Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin www.globalsistersreport.org/act-reparati...
In act of reparation, Franciscan sisters return land to Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin
They sold it for about 1% of its appraised value of $2.6 million value, citing their role in colonialism and residential boarding schools.
www.globalsistersreport.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
In act of reparation, Franciscan sisters return land to Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin www.globalsistersreport.org/act-reparati...
Transgender Perspectives on the Bible therevealer.org/podcast/epis...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Transgender Perspectives on the Bible therevealer.org/podcast/epis...
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I had a great time talking about creating and saving the world at Theology beer camp! Special thanks to Bo, Grace, and Jake for being great copanelists. And thanks to Mark Umstot for this photo!
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I had a great time talking about creating and saving the world at Theology beer camp! Special thanks to Bo, Grace, and Jake for being great copanelists. And thanks to Mark Umstot for this photo!
What better time to talk theology, creation, and climate justice. Thanks to theology beer camp for such an enlivening weekend.
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What better time to talk theology, creation, and climate justice. Thanks to theology beer camp for such an enlivening weekend.
Therefore, as bishops of this church, we declare that the ELCA cannot be silent. Our call is clear:
To resist systems and ideologies, including Christian Nationalism, that oppress, dehumanize, or erase.
www.ecsw.org/news/a-lette...
To resist systems and ideologies, including Christian Nationalism, that oppress, dehumanize, or erase.
www.ecsw.org/news/a-lette...
A letter from Bishops of the ELCA to the Church — East Central Synod of Wisconsin - ELCA
Beloved in Christ, Grace and peace to you in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), we write to you in this moment of nationa...
www.ecsw.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Therefore, as bishops of this church, we declare that the ELCA cannot be silent. Our call is clear:
To resist systems and ideologies, including Christian Nationalism, that oppress, dehumanize, or erase.
www.ecsw.org/news/a-lette...
To resist systems and ideologies, including Christian Nationalism, that oppress, dehumanize, or erase.
www.ecsw.org/news/a-lette...
Reverend David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to CNN's Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...
Chicago Pastor Shot by ICE speaks to CNN in first TV interview: ‘We could hear them laughing.’ | CNN
Reverend David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while pra...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reverend David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to CNN's Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Sarah Mullally become first female Archbishop of Canterbury www.bbc.com/pidgin/artic...
Sarah Mullally become first female Archbishop of Canterbury - BBC News Pidgin
Di Church don dey witout someone for di top job for almost one year afta Justin Welby resign sake of safeguarding scandal.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Sarah Mullally become first female Archbishop of Canterbury www.bbc.com/pidgin/artic...
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Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
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Pope Leo XIV enters US political fray, challenging "inhuman treatment of immigrants" —> religionnews.com/2025/10/01/p...
Pope Leo XIV enters US political fray, challenging 'inhuman treatment of immigrants'
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The first American pope weighed in on a controversy roiling the Chicago diocese, telling journalists the Catholic Church’s political positions include more than opposing abortion.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Pope Leo XIV enters US political fray, challenging "inhuman treatment of immigrants" —> religionnews.com/2025/10/01/p...
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Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.
A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
A great soul if ever there was one
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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.
A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Jane Goodall has died at 91.
Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO
Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO
October 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Jane Goodall has died at 91.
Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO
Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO