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Carlos Ruiz Martinez

@borderrealigion.bsky.social

Doctoral candidate in religious studies| writing about religion and immigration enforcement| interested in how and why religion gets defined

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My graduate school journey has been winding, enjoyable (sometimes not), and challenging in good and bad ways. Nothing like a good beginning of semester meeting with your advisor that helps you see and feel excited about the end of the tunnel.

08.09.2025 21:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Crucial background reading:

08.09.2025 20:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My toxic trait is taking my YMCA youth league soccer coaching way too seriously

22.08.2025 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Foucault was on to something

06.08.2025 00:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mass Deportation | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera On July 8, 2025, Alberto Rojas, the Bishop of San Bernardino, offered a dispensation to faithful in his diocese from the holy Catholic obligation of attending Mass. This dispensation extends to those ...

Religious liberals have advocated for immigrant rights for decades. Sanctuary churches are an example.

I offer a brief history of the sensitive locations memo and argue that Trump is redrawing the boundaries of public religion in America.

arcmag.org/mass-deporta...

31.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0