J. Scott Jackson

I've spent part of the morning reading about the 17th century Scottish Covenanters who resisted the incursions of King Charles & Archbishop Laud into the Scottish Kirk, and I fear trouble may be brewing.

St. Óscar Romero and the Right to Be Accurately Informed About Public Events Will Cohen on communication.

This is a timely essay.

American Prophets A "powerful text" (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern America

This is a fine book, indeed -- beautifully written and succint. Raboteau profiles seven of the most consequential US theo-political radical reformers of the 20th century, revealing their myriad interconnections and common aims that crossed the boundaries of their religious diversity.

Ghostwriters Then and Now: Biblical Scribes, Generative AI, and Collaborative Authorship DET is a multi-author theology blog that engages the Christian tradition's diversity but is especially rooted in 20th century theology.

"Rather than seeing AI as a radical break from traditional authorship, our article suggests we're witnessing the latest evolution in a long history of collaborative creation." ~ @wtmcmaken.bsky.social

Wall Street Bursts With Anger as Trump Tariffs Cause Wild Stock Market Swings Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels.

"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen.... For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies." ~ Rev. 18:2-3

Opinion | Trump Just Bet the Farm Donald Trump is upending a world that has brought peace and stability for 80 years. What is it he doesn’t understand?

So that bit about Mao's cultural revolution at the end made me choke on my coffee. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Prayer vigil set as churches go to court against Trump administration immigration policy [Episcopal News Service] An interfaith prayer vigil in Washington, D.C., is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. April 3, the eve of the first hearing in The Episcopal Church’s joint lawsuit with partner denomi…

Protecting our First Amendment freedom of worship should be a cause that unites people of faith across confessional and ideological differences.

Someone has set up a tracker of people who have "disappeared" in the US at the hands of the government's immigration enforcement agency

Four U.S. legislators who "get it": Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Sanders, Sen. Murphy, and now (most emphatically!), Sen. Booker. They have my attention, and I'm listening.

Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Prometheus’s Three Challenges to Christian Theology According to Jan Milíč Lochman DET is a multi-author theology blog that engages the Christian tradition's diversity but is especially rooted in 20th century theology.

New blog post: Prometheus's Three Challenges to #Christian Theology According to Czech theologian Jan Milíč Lochman. How the mythological #titan became a focal point in Marxist-Christian dialogues of the 1960s. Read more! #Theology #Marxism

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

True confession. I do observe Lent (to some extent), but I don't take it with the utmost seriousness. Holy Week is mainly what interests me.

truly kicking around the notion of a William Stringfellow Society as an ecumenical Christian resistance structure

Athanasius of Alexandria vs. Irenaeus | Lent Madness

Life is all about making difficult choices. www.lentmadness.org/2025/03/atha...

Opinion | Democrats Can Stop Trump and Save America The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.

Right on. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

Death, the Unspeakable An Essay by Jared Stacy

Read this. barthcenter.substack.com/p/death-the-...

So, You Want to Read William Stringfellow? DET is a multi-author theology blog that engages the Christian tradition's diversity but is especially rooted in 20th century theology.

"Listen to this man" - #KarlBarth on William Stringfellow. 40 years after his death, Stringfellow's prophetic critique of #empire, consumerism and privatized #spirituality feels more urgent than ever.

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Yeah, not sure why. Try this -- episcopalarchives.org/church-awake...

F. William Stringfellow -- lawyer, theologian, holy agitator -- entered into eternal life 40 years ago today. episcopalarchives.org/.../show/lea...

Ellison's Invisible Man is an incredible, mind-blowing read.

So, You Want to Read William Stringfellow? DET is a multi-author theology blog that engages the Christian tradition's diversity but is especially rooted in 20th century theology.

I wrote a primer on the work of William Stringfellow, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death.

So, You Want to Read William Stringfellow? DET is a multi-author theology blog that engages the Christian tradition's diversity but is especially rooted in 20th century theology.

Today marks 40 years since William Stringfellow's passing - the lawyer, activist & Episcopal #theologian who challenged #America's moral powers. His work on "principalities and powers" remains vital for our fraught times.

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Martin Marty, leading scholar of American religion, dies at 97 Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old.

A very nice remembrance of Professor Marty from NPR.

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Markus Barth’s Criticisms of American Foreign Policy A book review of Mark Lindsay's "Markus Barth: His Life & Legacy."

Can't remember if I shared this already, so if I did, please indulge me a re-post. derevth.blogspot.com/2025/02/mark...

The homilist, channeling Walter Wink's reading of the RCL Gospel reading (Luke 6:27-38), said what is called for acts of "subversive love."

I heard a preacher today call out recent actions by the U.S. federal government "evil," a designation he says he doesn't use lightly. I recall Luther's statement, from the 1518 Heidelberg Disputation: "A theology of the cross calls a thing what it is."

A Strategy for Christian Witness Against Trump's Autocracy Trump is following an anti-democratic playbook, but there are proven ways to intervene.

Stay focused. Get organized. Don't panic.... And read this.