“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Check out this amazing looking special issue of @therevealer.bsky.social, on religion, activism, and action — a stellar lineup of folks including @gillianfrank.bsky.social, @thislynne.bsky.social, and Rebecca Alpert!!

Our special issue on "Religion, Activism, & Community Action" is here!

Articles on religious leaders supporting immigrants, clergy paying for abortions, multifaith organizing, the Catholic Worker, queer religious activism, pro-Palestinian rabbis, a new TV series on religion & more! therevealer.org

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Fabulous news about a fabulous book I’ve been rereading for more than a year now!
Congratulations @susanstryker.bsky.social, @mckenziewark.bsky.social and @dukepress.bsky.social !

Congratulations to all the 2025 Lammy Award winners. LGBTQI+ writing is alive and well. The internet is bad, but books are good.

At an emergency all-school meeting of UVa’s College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the following statement (drafted by the school‘s Committee on Academic Freedom) was approved with 97% in favor:

Honestly one of my favorite ritual items of the Jewish year 🌴🍋

Grounded in nature, in joy, in liberation, may #Sukkot bring happiness and joyous liberation to all dwelling in temporary homes.
With true justice to those who have no permanent homes to return to.

Chag Sameach, ah Git Yom Tov ❤️

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

men will kidnap an FBI agent and take them to a lake playground in the woods, rather than go to therapy

timeline cleanse
(someone likes me enough to give me flowers)

Today is the day! The Elizabeth A. Clark Lecture will be given by @vox-magica.bsky.social Hope to see some bluesky folks there

don’t believe in sin, but do really think a lot more of us will need concerted efforts to turn this all around.
g’mar chatima tovah

Check out this exciting new handbook, especially the fabulous looking essay by the inestimable Kori Pacyniak! @kpacyniak.bsky.social

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

l’shanah tovah to all my beleaguereds and beloveds observing — my goodness are we in need of sweeter times soon!

THANK GOD UNIVERSITIES ARE DISSOLVING RELIGION DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS DOING. BOY THIS IS GREAT!

The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.

Two kinds of people don’t get why we study religion: people who think religion is bad and not studying it will make it go away and people who think religion is good—but just their own—so keep your critical hands off it. Both are wrong about what religious studies is. (See first comments on op.)

Check out this online workshop on trans affirming approaches to the Bible, built around *Trans Biblical* and featuring the creditors Melissa Harl Sellew, Katy Valentine, and myself!
Coming up in just a couple of weeks!

“When students realize their own humanity is at stake in their education, they are deeply invested in it. . . The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves.”

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House:

Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social