Miranda Hovemeyer

Hope, Humanism, and Higher Ed in a Fractured Time What it means to be a college chaplain when everything feels like it’s unraveling—and why I still have hope.

New substack post is up: Hope, Humanism, and Higher Ed in a Fractured Time.
What it means to be a college chaplain when everything feels like it’s unraveling—and why I still have hope. womenarefunnier.substack.com/p/hope-human...

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Girl. The cognitive dissonance here. She took it up because her daughter told her that women need to be able to defend themselves. Against who? Sexual predators like grandpa? The call is coming from inside the house, girl!

What's your bet on the next person/place/thing Trump is going to blame the Epstein files problem on? Think it's the trans child athletes who stole the files? The gay Mexican convoy vans that flushed them down the truck stop toilet? Maybe the Haitian atheist windmills who gave the files cancer?

So long, Columbia University. I saw your backbone floating in the Hudson.

Columbia's shame is the entire academy's problem now.

RETVRN KING'S COLLEGE

Now happily sitting at the right hand of satan.

I love to see Mike Johnson running scared. You can really hear the fear in his voice. Cruel people need to be made uncomfortable.

RIP Ozzy.

A statement by 40 Jewish faculty and staff on antisemitism and DEI at U.Va. As scholars and teachers, we know that dissent and debate strengthen our intellectual commitments and moral judgments rather than threaten them. We reject any attempt to deny these basic truths. 

"As Jewish University faculty and staff, we know that when powerful institutions scapegoat and harass marginalized communities, it hurts the entire community, and it makes the world less safe for Jews."

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Every time I see a photo of Marco Rubio I think how dead inside he looks. It’s like a failed Dorian Gray.

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It”. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

I never continue to be dismayed by the ability of people to vote against their own interests. In the immortal words of Mugatu: Doesn’t anyone notice this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! 💊

Thanks for the “enjoyable” addition! I think that’s so true! So much reading on this subject is very ivory-tower, but I find De Waal’s work to be intimately human, understandable, and enjoyable.

Want to do some summer reading? This is a favorite of mine for understanding where human morals come from & why we created them. It helps us understand why our species evolved to function best as a group, how religion has co-opted our values, & how humanism can help us understand ourselves better.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but these pants are waiting to be rescued from the Goodwill in Rockville.

On this date and time, I had to do something I was not prepared for. I had to explain to the refugee family we’re hosting what a speculum is and what it’s used for. Welcome to America! 🦆 👄 🌮 👩‍⚕️

"The program...engaged and explored the really tough moral questions that Oct. 7 and the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine posed,” Smirin said. “The divinity school eliminated the one program focused on peace building in Israel and Palestine at the moment when it was most relevant.”

Just a little reminder that living a non-Christian life should not get you killed.

What does spiritual care look like for people who don’t believe in God?

What about for those who were hurt because of God-shaped institutions?

I gave the invocation for the American University’s 149th commencement for the school of education and the school of communication today! Such an honor!

Finally cancelled our subscription to the #WashingtonPost. It’s a sad day for America.

Love my hubby who made these buttons for me. ♥️

So grateful to be joining other higher folks in Higher Ed spiritual life at the annual ACSLHE conference! Loving getting to meet other #humanists and #atheists in these spaces!

February is #BlackHistoryMonth, and I want to amplify the vital work of Black Nonbelievers (BN)!

Learn more about their mission and support them at blacknonbelievers.org.

#BlackNonbelievers #SecularCommunity

I want to be clear here. For the forseeable future, I am solely interested in:

Black joy
Queer joy
Trans joy

We're going to be fighting a lot, but we must not lose sight of what we are fighting FOR.

Not a return to the old way, but a world where especially Black, Trans, and Queer people delight.

Treat other people how you’d like to be treated yourself. It’s not that much to ask.

Caroline Kennedy calls cousin RFK Jr a predator ahead of confirmation hearing Scathing letter warns senators about danger her relative poses if elected as health secretary

Caroline Kennedy said her father, President John F Kennedy, and her uncle, former US attorney general Robert F Kennedy, would be “disgusted” by the actions of her cousin Robert F Kennedy Jr.