Cláudio Carvalhaes

It’s my honor!!!

So excited that I get assist @ccarvalhaes.bsky.social in class over the next four weeks. What a privilege.

Learning w/the Laws of Belief, Prayer, Ethics & Nature is gonna be a fun time.

I am a 🐝 bee!

Spiritual Practices for a Changing Earth replaces commodity fetishism with a gift economy in which all life – broken and suffused with loss – is celebrated as good and sacred and worthy of our mutual love and care.

It evokes age-old animist sensibilities in which the reader-devotee is awakened to S/spirit’s movement in rivers and seas, mountains and deserts, birds and insects. Richly sensual and erotically textured,

Rooted in wonder and grief, it has the potential to ground the body, nurture the spirit, and empower the will to rewild natural places for the wellbeing of humankind and otherkind.

toward our surroundings, the place in which our bodies are present, coming together to shape that space with other beings.”

This ritual guidebook is a manual for joy on a beautiful, burning planet.

“Rituals orient our affections; they tell us who and with whom to be; they tell us whom and what to avoid. What this ritual intends to do, then, is to reorient our whole selves (mind, body, emotions)

It is performance art because it summons the reader to become a practitioner in bioregional ritual activity that enables them to fall in love again with and be willing to repair the natural world. As Carvalhaes writes,

Another amazing blurb for my upcoming book written by Mark I. Wallace , author of “When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World.”

This is a wonderful book written with dangerous brio and incisive analysis. But it is more than a book.

Wow!!!! I haven’t heard of this! Thank you for sending it to me!!

What an amazing privilege to have had this long interview with David Mason, an amazing scholar, teacher and editor of Ecumenica, a journal that works on performance and religion. If you open my website below. Thank you David!
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I had a wonderful time with Professor Kwok Pui Lan, one of the most important theologian voices in the world today. And Wajcha showed up and wanted to be like teacher Pui Lan. Thank you so much for this gift teacher!

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YouTube video by North Park Theological Seminary Political AND Hospitable: You Are What You Love (Spring 2025)

A wonderful conversation with Dr Maggay from the Philippines.
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Senate Confirms Education Secretary Who’s Out To Destroy Public Schools Linda McMahon, best known for founding World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., has said she ‘wholeheartedly supports’ Trump’s plans to abolish the Education Department.

Linda McMahon, best known for founding World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., has said she ‘wholeheartedly supports’ Trump’s plans to abolish the Education Department.

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If you are in Chicago come join us. Wajcha and Formaggio might be there!

RFK Jr. Won. Now What? America’s health is in the hands of an anti-vaccine conspiracist.

By voting to confirm RFK Jr., the Senate “is wagering the future of our public health system on a prayer that a conspiracy theorist can build back up the agencies that he and his supporters have spent years breaking down,” Nicholas Florko writes.

YouTube video by The Onion Megachurch Conducts Successful Nuclear Missile Test | Onion News Network

Megachurch Conducts Successful Nuclear Missile Test | Onion News Network

While Supreme Pastor Joel Osteen has fired ballistic missiles off the Gulf Coast before, today marks the first time Lakewood Church has tested nuclear weapons.

Stephen Burns Professor of Liturgical and Practical Theology Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity Melbourne, Australia.

My publisher is the best! Not big but amazing! Barber's Press! And yes, we can only have it on Amazon... Sorry.

Passion and urgency, truth-telling and testimony, combine with great force in Cláudio’s thinking, and this remarkable book will be well-read, gather companions, and muster more justice in the life of believers. Read it for it’s challenge, gift, provocation, blessing, agenda-setting, summons…"

So, these are the field notes of a man on a journey—to the land, to his past, with his children, for the overlooked—as he wrestles with his questions, privilege, and responsibilities.

"Ritual at World’s End maps Cláudio’s conversion to an ecological approach to liturgy. It also manifests his ever-confident eschewal of the usual authorities in liturgical theology. Instead, he is looking to liberation theologians, and listening to the poor.

From Multiculturalisms to Multinaturalisms; Class, Interreligious Borders and Ways of Living With Pachamama; Birds, People then Religion; White Reasoning and Worship: Methodology: Queering Christian Worship; God’s Petticoat and Capitalism Full Fashion with Nancy C. Pereira.

ALL THIS BELOW FOR ONLY U$ 9,99!
This book has 422 pages of deep studies, drawings, and a foreword by Ivone Gebara! Some of the chapters include: Eco liturgical Liberation Theology l; Lex Natura: A New Way Into Liturgical Political Theology; Rituals and Performances in the Anthropocene;

What is USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development? Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects to further U.S. interests.

Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects to further U.S. interests.

I am joining it! I have a class on Monday but fI won't teach! No work, no shopping, no school!

¡Me apunto! Tengo una clase el lunes, pero no daré clases. ¡No trabajaré, no iré de compras, no iré a la escuela!

Fearing encounters with ICE, tribal leaders offer guidance to their members Tribal leaders are advising members on what to do if they're approached by federal law enforcement. The guidance follows what tribal leaders call concerning encounters with immigration officials.

Tribal leaders are advising members on what to do if they're approached by federal law enforcement. The guidance follows what tribal leaders call concerning encounters with immigration officials.

Yesterday I showed my two book projects at Union: one on ritual and climate devastation and one on the Saturday of despair, the day in between Holy Friday and Sunday Easter when the followers of Jesus didn’t have much to hold on to. Both books want to give us ways to survive the end of the world.

Order to pause federal spending creates deep uncertainty for schools, nonprofits and companies.

President Trump’s order freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans sent officials at schools, hospitals, nonprofit organizations and many others into a frantic scramble to understand the extent of the directive. Here's what to know.