Cara Burnidge

“I never despaired about my students, who, when our conditions allowed it, showed me again and again how close reading requires and multiplies both trust and strength.”

A combination of bombing the first test, banning devices (unless as an accommodation), sharing research about hand written notes being better for their brain, and then using Socratic method “what factors led to the class average being 20% better this time around?”

i can not be the only person wondering about the five percent gap between bigfoot and the yeti
i mean is this where u draw the line

We're concluding another successful AAR-SBL gathering, and it’s been wonderful to connect with all our authors in Boston!

With tomorrow as the final day, we're giving away the remaining display books for free! Swing by Booth 813 starting at 8:30!

#AAR #SBL #AARSBL2025

Met my editors in person for the first time! "Good Christian Girls: Nostalgia and the Making of Evangelical Girlhood" is as of a few weeks ago under contract with @uncpress.bsky.social. #AARSBL25

Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.

I have a query from a colleague looking for someone who can talk theology and politics in US Catholicism, and no names are springing immediately to mind. Any suggestions?

Lloyd Barba, Gerardo Marti, Jonathan Cavillio, Alyssa Maldonando-Estrada, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, anyone at the Cushwa Center at Notre Dame… if it’s current events religion reporting @jackjenkins.me is the best of the beat

Chatbot Jesus seems like it should prompt Christians to ask if this is koinonia?

If individuals are encouraged to find answers via a bot—rather than through each other or through the texts of scripture—then what happens to fellowship?

Chatbot Jesus is many things. one of them is a sign of how little many Christians seem to care about biblical exegesis.

There could be really rich conversations about what informs the code (as @robertpjones.bsky.social suggests) but that seems absent. The goal is to offload interpretation entirely

Anyway, hire more religion reporters.

A Guide to AI Ethics Literacy A growing list of AI ethics issues and links to relevant materials from the Ethics Center.

A Guide to AI Ethics Literacy: a growing collection of resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

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Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility

An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon

ICE vs the clergy

My dept is hiring in Religious Ethics!

4/4 load, renewable term with path to promotion (not tenure stream). Specialty open in applied ethics.

Happy to answer questions! #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25 @aarwomenscaucus.bsky.social

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This Back Pages series is wonderful!

I have been thinking about this book on and off for the last year! I’m so glad it’s featured here because, as AP notes, there are through lines to reckon with, especially when trying to understand how white Christian women wield piety as power.

Is there anything better than having scholars you admire engage closely with your work? Thanks Cara Burnidge, Karine Walther, Kate Moran, Mike Verney, and Jay Sexton! @burnidge.bsky.social @karinewalther.bsky.social
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This quote:
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”

I also felt uncomfortable learning so much about their lives and arguments. This trend is interesting to know on a macro level but I’m not sure I should know micro level details. And the intersection with family courts! Agh!

I couldn’t finish reading it. Wow. Wowee.

"We want to gear on the side of entertainment," he said, "because we think especially biblical content is over-indexed to educational." …is a remarkable statement given Religious Studies Departments around the country closing.

I’m teaching modern US history survey in-person in the spring for the first time in six years. What are the new cool supplemental books to assign students? 🗃️

Yes to what’s above and depending on your interest, Myth of Seneca Falls by Tetrault or Fighting Chance by Dudden.

There’s some like Funding Feminism that focus on how finances shape the mvmt

There’s so much specialization now that trade presses might have the best overviews

One of the reading groups this fall at my institution is @cjdenial.bsky.social Pedagogy of Kindness. Love to see it!

Free-Range Religion Ethical and moral concerns about food and diet commonly feature in individuals' religious identities and expressions. These concerns extend beyond what one s...

@uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website 🎉 You can save 50% off all books, including pre-orders of mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50!

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Plus there are new blurbs from @therubellion.bsky.social and @rachelbgross.bsky.social!

Local church and artist memorialize Arlington ICE arrests with ‘stumbling stickers’ | ARLnow.com A new collaboration between a South Arlington church and a local artist is seeking to memorialize places where immigration enforcement has arrested people in Arlington. Led by the Rev. Ashley Goff, me...

In Arlington, a church and artist mark sidewalks where ICE tore families apart. These ‘stumbling stickers’ force memory onto public ground—reminders of grief, resistance, and the refusal to let erasure win.

Race, Slavery, and Blue Jeans | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS LearningMedia Learn how the production of indigo and denim relied on the skills and labor of enslaved people brought to colonial America from Africa and how these products became vital to the economies of the South...

So much is happening in the Sweeney ad and it’s not just the play on the word “jeans.” There’s also a play being had on emphasizing her jeans being “blue.”

How did blue get passed down for generations?

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Critical secularism studies - are we still doing this? Any juice left in that lime? I say yes!

<turning to look directly at the camera from an office at a public, teaching-emphasis university>

thinking for no apparent reason about @felixh.bsky.social's brilliantly titled chapter "Invisible Umpires" in his book Ku Klux Kulture

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Excellent piece by @danielsilliman.bsky.social

These two screen shots are horrifying