great thread on how we got here
i'll add that a lot of this was primed by the rise and mainstreaming of pentecostalism in the interwar periodβthey were jonesing for another world war in the 1930s, and were awfully disappointed when WWII failed to deliver armageddon and the second coming
03.03.2026 13:22 β
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I wrote about this in the "Forward" today: forward.com/opinion/8096...
03.03.2026 21:26 β
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"al-SanΕ«sΔ«" by Khaled El-Rouayheb (Series "Great Medieval Thinkers")
Enriches our understanding of Islamic theology and intellectual traditions of African Islam
Corrects previous interpretations of al-SanΕ«sΔ« and of Islamic theology in the later Middle Ages
Written accessibly for non-specialist readers who are interested in Islamic history, the history of religious thought, and comparative theology
Great news!
Coming in March 2026.
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Art.
03.03.2026 16:52 β
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Pew Research Center finds 100% approval for laser gun sounds
03.03.2026 14:23 β
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Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India by Anna Lise Seastrand
Anna Lise Seastrand
Congrats to Anna Lise Seastrand, whose book Body, History, Myth is an honorable mention for @asianstudies.org's Bernard S. Cohn Prize! This honors outstanding scholarship in a first book on South Asia.
Read her exploration of the mural tradition in early modern South India here: hubs.ly/Q045gxzn0
03.03.2026 18:21 β
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What Charlie Kirk did for me was create an org whose watchlist targeted mostly Black & Brown jr professors who named white supremacy & other oppressions. For years, I got rape threats & death threats. Thanks Dept of Ed for featuring Kirk & reminding the rest of us how much you hate us.
03.03.2026 14:25 β
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A LATE-BREAKING TT JOB.....
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Toronto
Archaeology of the Levant (from south-central TΓΌrkiye to northwestern Saudi Arabia) during the Bronze and Iron Ages (3,000 to 500 BCE),
universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
03.03.2026 15:26 β
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I wish more of the public understood that Premillennialism has driven GOP support for Israel over decades. Bibi/Israel's' Right Wing has used this to maintain US support across party lines.
Conservative Protestants through white Christian Nationalists support a Israel to bring on the end times β¬οΈ
03.03.2026 17:48 β
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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing βreviewedβ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
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βThe United States must therefore prepare for the likelihood of Iranβs full implosion, fragmentation, and the spread of a chaos that would make the aftermath of our misadventures in Iraq and Libya look like a picnic.β
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Religion in the U.S.
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Available now π£
01.03.2026 19:54 β
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From my interview with @cnn.com 's Pamela Brown:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
02.03.2026 17:34 β
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A primer on this worldview: www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/eva...
03.03.2026 03:38 β
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We didnβt start the fire. It was always burning, Hegseth said, wiping sweat from his brow, since the worldβs been turning. In other words we didnβt light it but we tried to fight it.
03.03.2026 04:44 β
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This is a treasure trove of relevant content.
03.03.2026 04:55 β
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Rather than deal with institutional racism and instructor bias, just make POC students ask questions to the robot while white students get human teachers.
14.12.2024 02:38 β
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This feels like a Monty Python sketch.
"What's your god called?"
"The prince of peace"
"Oh thats lovely. What does he ask of you"
"To kill all non-believers in righteous unprovoked combat"
"Righty-oh, then. Carry on!"
"Now if you don't mind, this won't hurt but a second"
03.03.2026 15:52 β
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Given the growth of Bluesky, I plan going forward to also document here Trump's ongoing amplification of QAnon-promoting accounts on Truth Social. My original thread/documenting, which began in 2022, can be found here.
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03.03.2026 14:26 β
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Religion in the U.S.
A successful, many decades in the making, end run around the Establishment Clause.
03.03.2026 15:41 β
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for βArmageddon,β Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been βinundatedβ with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesusβ¦
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Religion in the U.S.
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Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departmentsβdefinitively not βusefulβ at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our presentβ¦
03.03.2026 03:21 β
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Here's a mini-thread on how Reign of Error episodes can help you understand how different parts of the MAGA Christian nationalist base are driving and understanding Trump's war in Iran: π§΅
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