S. Piper Booker

I've had someone tell me it's too vague because it "encompasses a lot of ideas"

Wow. Super great take 🙄 ... Maybe let's analyze why it has so many ideas!

To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

Teaching the humanities has always been precarious. Instead of asking students to think about world through a critical lense we should have them engage with their experiences and senses. These are tools we can take in the classroom and out. Asking students to make meaning.
#Religionand

Whoever is outbidding me on eBay for old Jerry Falwell material 2 minutes before it ends... Mercy please 😔 I want my silly trinkets

Begging reporters to make this distinction. She did not "cite" the Bible, she *invoked* the Bible.

"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."

Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.

the Lynchburg facebook group is a disturbing gem tbh. God forbid you say anything negative about LibertyU, then you've got all of the graduates coming out and defending the school as if it's God themselves.

Newsflash: people are allowed to critique a monogram that is lit up at night

Researchers who have been doxxed for their academic work have been shouting this for years: we need a plan to protect ourselves from concerted, politically motivated attacks on individuals. We need this at the grassroots level, at the departmental level, at the institutional level.

Practice is so important. All the time I’ve spent drawing, painting, and crocheting has made me really good at not getting writing done.

At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo

I’m not sure why AI is so prominent in this article since a historian did the lion’s share of the archival digging and AI simply verified what experts already confirmed.

At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...

i’m biased, but i’m thinking academic(!) religious studies needs to be taught in US public schools.

Ty for the advice! This was in no means an actual attempt at photography, but I'll keep this in mind in case I actually want to try 😅

Note to self: apparently, random photos are what get traction on this app

Tried to take a nice photo from my flight to Seattle yesterday... (Ignore the reflection of my research seminar...and my phone ...and me...)

So many people think of Jake Tapper or Maggie Haberman when they picture a "journalist" and it creates this perception of journalists as being higher paid then they are. But most journalists are at small outlets covering city council and school committee meetings making like $40,000.

okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.

Fred photo from yesterday

Anyway, hire more religion reporters.

..... of interest to the caturday crew....

Religion and Cats

Conference proposal season...
PhD applications...
Graduate Seminar paper...
Trying to keep up with my individual research...
Making time for hobbies...
😵‍💫 it sure is November!

Eclipse, a stray we spayed a couple of years ago, decided to pay us a visit!

Cue my high school classmates frowning, pointing at the Virginia map, "but more red than blue...how did the Democrat win?" Cue something something "horrible Spanberger" something something "lack of Biblical values"

(Public education in Campbell County was and is forever a nightmare)

So proud of Virginia tonight ❤️

Screen grab of the webpage for the journal article titled, Christian nationalism and ableism in the United States by Andrew Whitehead.

NEW RESEARCH

Americans who embrace Christian nationalism more likely to agree situation f/ people with disabilities is good as it is, disabled people demand too much from rest of society, & there have been enough societal efforts in favor of people w/ disabilities.

academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

I love utilizing local news stations for my research work, but Lynchburg news is getting less professional by the day.

Granted, part of utilizing it is to show their inherent bias towards LibertyU over other schools... But c'mon, misspelling Virginia five times? 🤦‍♀️

Sinclair Standards!

I'm not even sure if I have the words (or character count) to talk about how wild Boris Johnson's Convocation speech at LibertyU was.

www.liberty.edu/news/2025/10...

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

The results are in: 16 year old cats can in fact get the zoomies

Rambo is taking a little nap after all that running around

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

I'm currently traveling for a Historic Preservation Conference, so naturally I had to check out some of the local bookstores.

Got some books off my academic wishlist, and grabbed a couple of childhood books for nostalgia's sake

Aww, good day for Bristol! All Gizmo does is cuddle paper towels 😔