Casey A’Hearn

Michigan Church Attacker Is Said to Have Held a Grudge Against Mormons

Important to notice what acts of violence are considered “political” and which ones aren’t.

Michigan Church Attacker Is Said to Have Held a Grudge Against Mormons www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

With Russell Nelson’s death, here is an interactive look at his 101 years of service to medicine, family and faith Russell M. Nelson, the oldest-ever president of the LDS Church, has died at 101. This timeline offers a look at a life full of milestones.

Russell M. Nelson, the oldest-ever president of the LDS Church, has died at 101. This timeline offers a look at a life full of milestones.

Columbo: a TV tutorial in why to never talk to cops

Worth the watch!

Great moment where Dan highlights the difference in social norms between now and the 8th century that can better help us understand how religion is informed by our socio-cultural contexts!

YouTube video by Dan McClellan Cannabis was used in ancient Israelite worship

Cannabis was used in ancient Israelite worship
#maklelan2634
youtu.be/63u6WH5rOUA

At this point we can’t see universities as cowardly - they’re complicit and they want this to happen.

Act accordingly.

Project sneak peak!

Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham Follow A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since. 2:15 PM 3/24/25 1.5M Views

The IDF has kidnapped the co-director of Oscar winning film No Other Land after being assaulted by a gang of Israeli settlers.

If you’re going to write a journal article analyzing the Book of Mormon for authorship but don’t include Joseph Smith as one of your test authors because “it’s too hard to parse his REAL voice from his scribes” - immediately putting it in the “don’t take too seriously” pile.

Projects are brewing during spring break. (A phrase which should be considered an oxymoron at this point.)

#RELresearch #MormonStudies #1844 #JosephSmith

Scholars who work in/around Mormon studies!

Monday is the deadline to submit papers/panels for our unit at the American Academy of Religion conference, which will take place in Boston this November. We have themes we'd love to see covered but will accept all types. papers.aarweb.org/group/14950

A great joy of Secondhand Sacred are the gifts people give. After hearing about the project, a friend donated this 1956 Catholic school devotion to Mary made by her mother. They are downsizing & didn’t know what to do. For her, this project provided a home instead of discarding. #secondhandsacred

Leave it to Claudia Tenney to bury an acknowledgement of Harriet Tubman in a newsletter where she happily claims she’s pushing legislation to strip money from NY Medicare recipients.

#NY #embarrassment

It’s more-so broader popular culture. Realizing how marketable the “cult” tag is has really got me thinking of the intersections between capitalism, entertainment, and religion. It’s hard to take some creators I engage with seriously when they take it for granted!

If “cult” signifies “bad religion”, why won’t people just say bad religion?
#religionscholarship #REL

“A rare exception” that promises “crowns of eternal lives” and “exhalation in eternal worlds”.

Source: churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/g…

This change is another attempt from the organizational church to revise LDS history and downplay the impact polygamy had on the early church.

“A rare exception” doesn’t rhetorically work when the practice was emphasized, enforced, and participated in for nearly 60 years.

LDS Church changes its polygamy cartoons for children — including the message The LDS Church has revised illustrations explaining polygamy to kids, eliminating some cartoons and changing the message from "obedience" to "a rare exception" to the teaching of monogamy.

www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

A wonderful find yesterday #secondhandsacred

📌🗓️ Save the dates! Our Spring 2025 #HumanitiesforAI events at #Princeton are announced! Scroll the thread below to read more and RSVP to talks with Matt Kirschenbaum, Ted Chiang, and Nnedi Okorafor! More details soon.

Matthew Kirschenbaum: Textpocalypse, or the Cultural Logic of Slop Matthew Kirschenbaum: Textpocalypse, or the Cultural Logic of Slop

February 25, 2025: "Matthew Kirschenbaum: Textpocalypse, or the Cultural Logic of Slop" with @mmvty.bsky.social as respondent.

Did I stumble into my dissertation topic? 🎉🥹 Stay tuned 👀

a man in a suit and tie holds a piece of fruit in his hand ALT: a man in a suit and tie holds a piece of fruit in his hand

#columbo #checkingallmybases

a man is wearing a yellow raincoat with a hood . ALT: a man is wearing a yellow raincoat with a hood .

Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us.

Historians:

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien

What can you do with a religious studies degree?

You can read regular session papers from Idaho legislators and pick out all the rhetorical bits that make you go: “Hmm.”

legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/u...

Line 13 is interesting to me. What other concepts would the framers not know?

My fiancé really went all out for Christmas this year. I will never not be thankful 🥹

Biggest thanks to @usefulcharts.bsky.social and Matt Baker for the really awesome scholarship that goes into producing sources like this.

Can’t wait to hang up my poster! 😁

Alright… that was mighty interesting y’all.

Finally getting around to watch Heretic! Will report back soon!!
#HereticMovie #RELresearch #LDS #Mormonism

Academics writing papers be like “Quippy One Liner Title: What I’m Actually Doing That Isn’t as Fun”.