Peter J. Thuesen

A victory for sanity and democracy.

Second that. I was working at the Edwards edition at the time and remember Nick well.

In a special session marking the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate (the Vatican II declaration on non-Christian religions), I'm presenting this morning at 9:00 "Cardinal Cushing and the Jews: An American Context for Nostra Aetate." #AARSBL25

Took the Green Line this afternoon to Brighton to see the cardinal's residence, where Cardinal Cushing lived; it's now the @bostoncollege.bsky.social art museum. Tomorrow at #AARSBL25 I'm presenting "Cardinal Cushing and the Jews: An American Context for Nostra Aetate."

The Episcopal Church of All Saints, a liberal Anglo-Catholic parish in Indianapolis.

Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church, Indianapolis (which occupies the space that was once First Congregational Church). The attached St. Seraphim Bookstore is the only place I know in downtown Indianapolis where one can buy books on Orthodox theology.

Christians and Jews Rediscover Interracial Haven (Published 2012)

Heard a wonderful lecture yesterday by my emerita
@iuindianapolis.bsky.social colleague Susan Hyatt about her community engaged work, including on Black and Jewish residents of the Old Southside neighborhood.

Her work was profiled in the @nytimes.com 13 years ago:

www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/u...

(2/2) ...I'm presenting "Cardinal Cushing and the Jews: An American Context for Nostra Aetate" (drawing on my current book project). If you're going to be in Boston for AAR, please join us!

Today's the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Vatican II declaration on non-Christian religions. Here's a great list of resources (see especially the op-ed listed at the bottom). There's also a special joint session upcoming at the @aarweb.bsky.social annual meeting in which... (1/2)

There's no better place on the @iuindianapolis.bsky.social campus on a Friday morning than the University Library.

Happy 279th birthday to @princeton.edu, my graduate alma mater, founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746. I've always been grateful to that institution for making my grad studies possible. Here's the Graduate College (photo taken on a visit a decade ago).

UPS just delivered Jonathan Stapley's Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Worship, hot off the press from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. A welcome addition to OUP's extensive list in Mormon studies.

Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning

Every Democrat who hopes to win in 2026 and 2028 needs to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest (to quote the BCP) this @nytopinion.nytimes.com editorial.

America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Breakfast w an octogenarian friend disappointed all the frog suits were sold out.

Morning show and tell with Declaration of Independence to hundreds at the library.

All ages in our family showing up and speaking out across the country.

Texts and socials full of patriotic protest.

A good day.

No Kings today in the shadow of George Washington on the lawn of the Indiana Statehouse in downtown Indianapolis. State police estimated 5K crowd size; seemed larger to me. Ought to give Gov. Braun pause on Trump's push to redistrict—which polls already show Hoosiers don't want.

Another reason to like Indianapolis International Airport (IND).

www.indystar.com/story/news/l...

Can relate

A good reminder for students and professors alike!

The flags of the United Nations member nations inside the Indiana University Indianapolis Campus Center for this month's International Festival. Always an inspiring reminder of how higher education embraces the world.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

This op-ed by @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social dean Erwin Chemerinsky hits the nail on the head: Trump's "compact" with universities is pure extortion. There will be hell to pay for American higher ed if any universities capitulate.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

It's worth noting that there have been women as primates of national churches for a while—among them Antje Jackelén of the Church of Sweden & Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church. But the appointment of Sarah Mullally as Abp. of Canterbury will certainly reignite ecumenical debate.

Congratulations to the Rt. Rev. Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London and a former nurse, on her historic appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury! What great news for ecumenical Christianity! (Was pleased too to see she studied theology at @kent.ac.uk, where my daughter also studied last year.)

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

Congratulations on this important and urgently important piece!

Back from South Bend and the Cushwa Center's Dolan Seminar in American Religion, which featured a rousing discussion this morning of Tom Tweed's remarkable new book, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (@yalepress.bsky.social). What a treat!

The Jesuit founder keeping watch over the Congregation of Holy Cross in the basilica at @notredame.bsky.social.

The Golden Dome at @notredame.bsky.social earlier this afternoon.

Always glad to be back at the Cushwa Center at @notredame.bsky.social for the Dolan Seminar in American Religion, this time featuring Thomas Tweed's Religion in the Lands That Became America (@yalepress.bsky.social). I arrived on campus in time to hear organ practice in the Basilica. Glorious!

Scary—thanks for posting this.

Are we really still in the United States of America??