Dr. Amy Carr
@dramycarr.bsky.social
Lutheran theologian, professor at Western Illinois University, higher ed advocate
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“For the 2nd time in 6 weeks, a pastor was struck w a pepper round fired by a U.S. immigration agent as faith leaders protested the administration’s deportation efforts. Rev. Jorge Bautista was one of dozens of demonstrators who had gathered before sunrise Thursday.”
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At Bay Area protest, a second pastor is shot by federal agents with a pepper round
OAKLAND, Calif. (RNS) — For the second time in six weeks, a pastor was struck in the head with a pepper round fired by a US immigration agent as faith leaders protested the arrival of more than 100 US...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“For the 2nd time in 6 weeks, a pastor was struck w a pepper round fired by a U.S. immigration agent as faith leaders protested the administration’s deportation efforts. Rev. Jorge Bautista was one of dozens of demonstrators who had gathered before sunrise Thursday.”
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In this response post, @dramycarr.bsky.social tests Springs’s transformative theory of justice and reconciliation by drawing on a story of corruption and reconciliation from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.
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Reflections on Restorative Justice as Lived Religion: Comparative Notes from a Rural Reservation Town in Upper Michigan | Contending Modernities
How might construing restorative justice practices as lived religion inform a moral and spiritual account of the broader ways we dwell together in communities?
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October 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In this response post, @dramycarr.bsky.social tests Springs’s transformative theory of justice and reconciliation by drawing on a story of corruption and reconciliation from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.
contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
@derosejason.bsky.social - thanks for this story! Pope Leo's Augustinian order is seeing a 'Leo bump'
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Pope Leo's religious community is drawing renewed interest. Here's what makes it unique
"Before, we might get two or three discerners. But after Pope Leo, I now have 15. It's unbelievable."
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October 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM
@derosejason.bsky.social - thanks for this story! Pope Leo's Augustinian order is seeing a 'Leo bump'
www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...
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The mantras that have been circulating in my thoughts since January: trust and truth. How to cultivate them, even when both are under attack?
August 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The mantras that have been circulating in my thoughts since January: trust and truth. How to cultivate them, even when both are under attack?
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This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.
NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby.
This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday).
What the hell is happening to the US?
(🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)
This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday).
What the hell is happening to the US?
(🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)
August 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.
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OPEN LETTER: Save the Humanities at Monmouth College
Click the link to sign the letter: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQqV0ZOdCg-j_TtZnM0WL6iL4unny3h3RxtaZcUdy1HINnNQ/viewform?usp=header. The letter will remain open for signatures for two w...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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An astute and timely commentary and ethical analysis by one of my former professors of Judaism. evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/a-jewish-def...
A Jewish Defense of Universities - Evolve
Jewish resources can bolster a defense of higher education at a time when it is threatened and discredited. An “argument for the sake of heaven” is one in which both sides share a commitment to uncove...
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July 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
An astute and timely commentary and ethical analysis by one of my former professors of Judaism. evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/a-jewish-def...
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Activist-scholar Jason Springs immersed himself in justice organizations in Chicago. He offers an account of their peace circles and the hope they cultivate.
Review by @dramycarr.bsky.social.
(@nyupress.bsky.social)
www.christiancentury.org/books/lived-...
Review by @dramycarr.bsky.social.
(@nyupress.bsky.social)
www.christiancentury.org/books/lived-...
The lived religion of restorative justice
Jason Springs immersed himself in justice organizations in Chicago. He offers an account of their peace circles and the hope they...
www.christiancentury.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Activist-scholar Jason Springs immersed himself in justice organizations in Chicago. He offers an account of their peace circles and the hope they cultivate.
Review by @dramycarr.bsky.social.
(@nyupress.bsky.social)
www.christiancentury.org/books/lived-...
Review by @dramycarr.bsky.social.
(@nyupress.bsky.social)
www.christiancentury.org/books/lived-...
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Like this shouldn’t be a controversial statement. I don’t want a Dem admin telling Liberty University what it can teach either….
April 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Like this shouldn’t be a controversial statement. I don’t want a Dem admin telling Liberty University what it can teach either….
Grateful for my doctoral education amid the intellectual intensity of the University of Chicago Divinity School.
March 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Grateful for my doctoral education amid the intellectual intensity of the University of Chicago Divinity School.
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This publication is a collection of reflections from 12 gender justice advocates,who have contributed toward the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action.Three of the profiled individuals were part of the LWF delegation at the conference.
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lutheranworld.org/resources/pu...
Gender Equality and Women’s Rights 30 years after Beijing: So close yet so far
lutheranworld.org
March 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This publication is a collection of reflections from 12 gender justice advocates,who have contributed toward the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action.Three of the profiled individuals were part of the LWF delegation at the conference.
lutheranworld.org/resources/pu...
lutheranworld.org/resources/pu...
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“We reject attempts to dismantle this country’s life-saving refugee resettlement program, to withhold protection to asylum seekers fleeing violence & persecution, to deny immigrants & refugees in our communities access to basic support, & to send families back into danger.”
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ELCA signs Ecumenical Declaration Defending Refuge. Now it’s your turn. — Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona
Church World Service — As a Covenant Member of CWS the ELCA was part of drafting and signing The Ash Wednesday Ecumenical Declaration: Defending Refuge . Read the final version of the Declarat...
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March 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“We reject attempts to dismantle this country’s life-saving refugee resettlement program, to withhold protection to asylum seekers fleeing violence & persecution, to deny immigrants & refugees in our communities access to basic support, & to send families back into danger.”
lamaz.org/news-blog/el...
lamaz.org/news-blog/el...
An interesting article about just how often generative AI is incorrect with news and citations. It can cull/create patterns, but without embodied human testing of the meaningfulness of those patterns with regard to the realities they are describing. www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
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March 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
An interesting article about just how often generative AI is incorrect with news and citations. It can cull/create patterns, but without embodied human testing of the meaningfulness of those patterns with regard to the realities they are describing. www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Some 1949 wisdom from H. A. Overstreet from his book The Mature Man - an excerpt from his depiction of a not mature man. The friend who shared this thought it depicted Trump quite well.
March 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Some 1949 wisdom from H. A. Overstreet from his book The Mature Man - an excerpt from his depiction of a not mature man. The friend who shared this thought it depicted Trump quite well.
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Proud of the ELCA, keep up the good fight!
“Be of good courage, Church, and let us persevere.”
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ELCA responds to false accusations on X 02-02-2025 | Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
YouTube video by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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February 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Proud of the ELCA, keep up the good fight!
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There's an incredibly strong connection between educational attainment and interpersonal trust.
Among people who have a graduate degree, 56% say that "people can generally be trusted."
Among those who went no further than high school, it's just 19%.
Among people who have a graduate degree, 56% say that "people can generally be trusted."
Among those who went no further than high school, it's just 19%.
January 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
There's an incredibly strong connection between educational attainment and interpersonal trust.
Among people who have a graduate degree, 56% say that "people can generally be trusted."
Among those who went no further than high school, it's just 19%.
Among people who have a graduate degree, 56% say that "people can generally be trusted."
Among those who went no further than high school, it's just 19%.
A commentary on the value of #librarians by friend and retired librarian and English prof Bill Thompson: www.tspr.org/tspr-comment...
Commentary: An unaffordable luxury
Commentator William Thompson says he cannot support a university library that has no library faculty.
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December 22, 2024 at 3:04 AM
A commentary on the value of #librarians by friend and retired librarian and English prof Bill Thompson: www.tspr.org/tspr-comment...
For anyone interested in listening in to my contribution to Emory's Kessler Conversation series on "Justification and Justice: Sixteen Century Texts and Twenty-First Century Politics," see pitts-emory.libwizard.com/f/conversati...
LibWizard
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December 11, 2024 at 2:44 AM
For anyone interested in listening in to my contribution to Emory's Kessler Conversation series on "Justification and Justice: Sixteen Century Texts and Twenty-First Century Politics," see pitts-emory.libwizard.com/f/conversati...
So much insightful commentary tucked into Andrei Desnitsky's dips into history--with Russian Christians as only one intended audience in this critique of the tug to love tradition and empire as the only valid means to or medium of connection to the divine. publicorthodoxy.org/good-reads/t...
Theology of Disillusionment
Image Credit: iStock.com/Vladimir Zapletin Many Russian-speaking people are now disillusioned---with their former ideals, their country, their church. “Eve
publicorthodoxy.org
December 8, 2024 at 2:36 AM
So much insightful commentary tucked into Andrei Desnitsky's dips into history--with Russian Christians as only one intended audience in this critique of the tug to love tradition and empire as the only valid means to or medium of connection to the divine. publicorthodoxy.org/good-reads/t...
First thought during the American Academy of Religion meeting: in the humanities, we are always still learning to speak, to create words for what is and for what can be
November 28, 2024 at 4:38 AM
First thought during the American Academy of Religion meeting: in the humanities, we are always still learning to speak, to create words for what is and for what can be