Guess I never announced this (rather exciting) news publicly. Along with my ongoing work for @cpitco.bsky.social, not to mention varied and sundry other projects, I'll now be working officially as a Writer™. 🥳🎉🤨

Mine is "Horror in the Catholic Seventies, Or, On the 'Mindless and Hysterical Banality of the Evil Presented in The Exorcist.'" | godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonst...

Already planned my outfit for the next week… #Liverpool #YNWA 🫶🏻❤️🏆

I was surprised to find how sad this bit made me feel — and that it was sadness more than rage. | How Francis, a Progressive Pope, Catalyzed the Catholic Right in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Does our unjust world weigh heavy on you? I'm leading a "Journey to Justice" retreat at Loyola on the Potomac, June 6-8. Come, rest awhile, and learn how we might move beyond "thoughts and prayers" to help heal what Baldwin called the "death of the heart." loyolaonthepotomac.com/journey-to-j...

I go to Baldwin the way some might go to the Bible. Let this paragraph open something in your soul this morning…

😍 #YNWA

Introduce yourself with four comic covers

Rolling around #sblaar24 as my rogue scholar self, wearing all my many hats — scholar of Catholics and African American religion, comix creator, and, yes, chief of staff for public interest tech start up. Blessed, as always, by all the brilliant beautiful people here.

Me: Man, I've got too much writing on my desk rn. Can't wait to clear these projects off.

Also me: OMG I'VE GOT A NEW ESSAY I NEED TO WRITE NOW

Yes, Lent starts in two week. No, I'm not a robot preparing to give up that algorithm for forty days.

Had a lovely time (virtually) talking Allison Isidore's UIowa class about Bad Catholics, Good Trouble and wanted to say I'm happy to visit *your* classes to talk (bad) Catholics, racial justice, the art of comic-book writing, horror, and more!

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Last week I started work as Chief of Staff for the Corporation for Public Interest Technology. The skills & sensibilities I've cultivated as a religious studies scholar will now be directed toward a human-centered, social-justice-oriented approach to our strange new world of AI systems.

New job, new books, same mad critical thinking skillz. 😅 ✨