John Hawthorne

This is your excuse to never chaperone school dances.

They should always be asked to show their work.

This administration’s weird use of undefined aggregate statistics is just bizarre. Based on how many people? Half a pound for each adult in the US? A million people losing an average of 35 pounds?

Why not talk about the median weight loss (your experience may vary)?

Take a stats class!

R&R=course evals

Can’t overstate how significant this is.

Gavin should have given his speech before Mamdani’s. Not a great speech and failed to thank the people worked hard to achieve the outcome. Zohran showed how to close a campaign.

The Author Meets The (Pretty Friendly) Critics The SSSR Book Panel on The Fearless Christian University

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On my book panel at @sssreligion.bluesky.social annual meeting.

Simply phenomenal.

Heard this morning that a number of @sssreligion.bsky.social sessions looked into this and found very little support for the claim.

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IDS to continue printing after IU reverses course Our next edition will hit the stands Nov. 20.

In the wake of searing media stories and big blowback from alums (some of whom threatened to pull planned endowments), Indiana University reversed its decision to stop letting their students print news.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

2:45 tomorrow in the
Maple Lake Room

Heading to Minneapolis for the @sssreligion.bsky.social meeting (which will include a book panel about The Fearless Christian University).

“We’ll going to skip these pressers after you’ve had a chance to get caught up

Made me buy the book!

Politics is more than temperature-taking Political campaigns, the axiom has it, are nothing more than a math problem. Get 50 percent of the vote, plus one, and you win. Doesn't matter the race; that holds. So all a candidate needs to do, how...

OK, I wrote about the "how Democrats can win" report. www.pbump.net/o/politics-i...

Beth Allison Barr's "Becoming the Pastor's Wife" Social Construction and Social Sanctions

Beth Allison Barr's "Becoming the Pastor's Wife"
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We got the same dishwasher installed this week and I was so impressed with that feature that I took a picture.

Christianity and Americanism: Pew and PRRI A look at "soft Christian Nationalism"

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I don’t think these positions could be well articulated in a focus group. But they operate in the ether through which people approach religion and patriotism. That’s why I call it Soft Christian Nationalism.

One in five say that church attendance is unimportant to being a Christian! 🤨

Yeah, this is one case where I think we'd all be wise to spread the president's message wide. Let everyone see who he is.

“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

It’s good…..

But when you have your coffee and one hand and gesture with the other, I get nervous.

NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes.

But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/

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Could be both

Antifa plans far ahead. “I’ll do all this seminary stuff and preach in this church while I wait for my moment to come years from now.”

With A Little Help From My Friends Some great SubStacks you should read

With A Little Help From My Friends
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EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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“One of these things is not like the other”

In Christian Universities, the refrain is “we know God wants us to succeed” regardless of the most recent enrollment or financial data.