Something I wrote on the occasion of the retirement of Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America for the past 30 years.

If you're using this article in any of your classes this term I'd be happy to Zoom into your class to discuss it.

Had a great time a couple of weeks ago with this amazing gang, plus Oren Lyons and Jake Edwards.

the least tangle or kink in the coiling would, in running out, infallibly take somebody’s arm, leg, or entire body off

a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed

Nothing says "viewpoint diversity" like (*checks notes*) restricting curricula to a mandated viewpoint.

166 faith leaders in Texas & 193 faith leaders in Missouri urge state lawmakers to oppose bills mandating posting of Ten Commandments in public schools (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/nearly-200...). These hundreds of faith leaders prove such bills aren't about Christianity but #ChristianNationalism

Thought I'd throw this out there just because I was thinking about it again this morning.

Since Trump is busy unilaterally renaming bodies of water down south, thought we’d get started up in New England.

How’s this?

Americans purport to take religion seriously, but so many Americans don't even know much about the religious traditions and institutions they identify with and claim as justification for their socio-political views.

Religion is complicated. Obviously. In the US over the past few decades the general public discourse seems to have reduced "religion" to "Christianity," and "Christianity" to a particular socio-political brand. But religion won't be so easily contained.

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

Pope Francis’ letter to U.S. Bishops is incedibly powerful. This stands out to me especially. Every purported Christian faith leader who has endorsed or stood silent before Trump’s ugly immigration policies needs to be confronted with this statement.

www.vatican.va/content/fran...

This is ridiculous.

So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.

welcome back Don Quixote (1605)

I sometimes find myself reminded that there are many, many things going on every day that reveal that we live in multiple, different realities.

My first thought on seeing this, and I was confused! youtu.be/wcI1GKikLg4?...

Banning trans kids from sports solves *none* of the problems that Americans are facing.

Let’s be real: Trans kids aren't the reason we can't afford groceries. Trans kids aren't the reason young people are giving up on ever owning a home.

Corporate greed is.

Nobody wants a student essay as a product; we want students to learn to compose their thoughts in written form as a process. I mean, would you have a machine run your laps or play your scales for you? In which case we would not say you had run or played.

It’s funny that we are all acknowledging that private health care is an absolute bureaucratic nightmare designed to limit treatment at the expense of patients’ lives and lots of people still believe that trans kids are just walking into medical facilities and getting treatment without question.

I'll introduce what I've been working on lately with this link to my most recent publication, a short piece on thinking religion through the planetary connections of the 19th century whaling industry: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15...

The whole special issue on religion in extractive zones is great.

amazing that packer wrote this about an election result in which no one got above 50% of the vote.

the thing you have to understand about the commentary class is that many of them are embarrassed elites who are overly credulous toward right-wing populist claims for reasons of self-loathing