Andrew Mark Henry

YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast Are Animals Religious?

Honored to have my book *Religious Affects* discussed as part of this outstanding Religion for Breakfast video essay from @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social reviewing the evidence for religious behavior among animals!

I’ll be leading the tour myself with mini-lectures, site walks, dinners together, the whole thing. If you enjoy my videos, this is that… but in real life, in ancient ruins.

I’ve designed the week after a graduate-level study-abroad trip I did for my PhD. It's a week-long dive into lived religion, religious diversity in western Asia Minor with a focus on putting NT texts like Revelation into their archaeological, material, and cultural contexts.

Ancient Christian Turkey with Religion for Breakfast | Ephesus 2026 in Turkey This tour is a deep dive into the world of early Christianity and ancient Greco-Roman religion—led by Dr. Andrew Mark Henry, a scholar of early Christianity and the creator and host of Religion for Br...

After the huge success of last year's tour, I’m again leading an Ancient Christianity Turkey tour in May 2026!

We’ll walk the streets of Ephesus, visit ancient churches and synagogues, and nerd out about ancient religion together.

Spots are limited →
www.wetravel.com/trips/ancien...

Yeah, it’s exactly. Literal title and thumbnail A/B testing

Ancient Roman Military Officers Had Pet Monkeys, And The Pet Monkeys Had Pet Piglets Some monkeys also had their own puppies and kittens.

This new headline about findings from Roman Berenice is doing the most. 🐒 🐖 www.iflscience.com/roman-milita...

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Dear friends and worthy enemies, next week I will be giving this online talk for those who might be interested, thanks to the good offices of @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social . It is a pay what you want event which will be live streamed and recorded. I will try not to say anything TOO seditious.

Already thinking of content for The Odyssey next year. What scholars of Homeric Greek literature and religion would you recommend?

Interesting how enshittification leads companies to flip their entire mission statement. From upward economic mobility to gambling your way to bankruptcy.

I was an early adopter of the stock trading app Robinhood in 2013. Their whole thing was democratizing investing with zero-fee trades, and it honestly enabled a broke grad student like me to invest. But now, I get daily spam from them to gamble on sports and elections. Predatory, extractive bullshit

You can take my survey of contemporary Paganism, plus a number of other awesome seminars with brilliant scholars!

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Looks like YouTube is launching a "likeness detection" tool that will alert me if someone creates an AI video with my likeness. I'm sure there are downsides I'm not thinking of, but I'm glad YT is making an effort to protect against my face being used by AI. Next I'd like to see "voice detection."

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.

My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.

We are offering Coptic again!

Any experts on Chabad-Lubavitch here? Could use a fact-checker for a segment in my upcoming video.

Amazing. Good thing our government didn’t cut $500 million of mRNA research. Oh wait…

YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast The Origins of the Rapture

Apparently The Rapture is trending? Time to surface and oldie: No, the Rapture is not in the Bible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvsj...

A chart showing how to convert various measures of volume used in baking. Each unit is portrayed as a circle with bumbers around it, and lines link each circle to the appropriate number on each of the other circles. It looks like the Kabbalistic tree of the sefirot.

The Kabbalistic Tree of Baking

Whereby divine Volume emanates to the lower vessels & is differentiated into units

Thank you!

I didn't realize how bad Google's enshittifictaion had become, until I switched my default browser to DuckDuckGo a few seconds ago. Holy shit, the AI overviews were degrading the user experience so much.

I’d be shocked

Definitely the best Iran headline of the year

“Counting majors does not reflect the value religious studies brings to a college, its proponents and practitioners say. Courses in religion are popular among undergraduates because they learn, often for the first time, about religion as something to study rather than to practice. Now that is more important than ever, some in the discipline say.”

A lot of the justifications point to the number of Religious Studies majors—but is this really how a dept’s value should be judged? In many RS departments in which I’ve taught, our courses have enormous enrollments & student interest +

apropos of the religious studies isn’t theology convos…

my mom: i’m going to put [a copy of your book] by the altar.

me: i don’t know that it’s good enough for god, mom.

my dad: but god is all you write about.

(i didn’t have the heart to tell them i don’t write about god, obvs.)

Love that these old videos are still getting attention. I've bene meaning to publish updated versions.

YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast Why Fictional Religions Feel So Fake

This is a neat video by @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social, relevant to the considerations we've been playing with as part of #MythAugust, and very much the sort of thing we mean when we talk about a world feeling "lived-in" on @worldbuildcast.bsky.social.

youtu.be/pjrrUZeJMSo

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Can any of my religious studies colleagues explain to me why Peter Thiel is so fascinated by the Antichrist? I need to know more