Rituals of Autumnal Endurance: An Ethnographic Study of Post-Industrial North AmericansIn the crisp and chilly days of autumn, when the skies began to darken earlier and the cold crept insidiously through the cracks of…Nov 1Nov 1
Preaching Epiphany?Because of my work on the Magi, people often ask me what I would preach about on Epiphany, if I were someone who was going to preach on…Jan 6, 2023Jan 6, 2023
On Citing Monsters. Or not.This short piece was presented on November 21, 2022 at a session of the Metacriticism of Biblical Scholarship program unit of the Society…Nov 28, 2022Nov 28, 2022
Trumpism and White Christianity, or: Why You Need to Stop Calling Trumpism a CultInstead of framing Trumpism as a cult, it is both more accurate and helpful to think of it as a form of white Christianity in the US.Sep 24, 2021Sep 24, 2021
On Classrooms and Surveillance StatesIn what would seem to be a growing trend on Twitter, students are posting screenshots of syllabi, e-mails from professors, and feedback on…Sep 14, 2020Sep 14, 2020
No, we did not respond “calmly” to 9/11Like many, I have vivid memories of 9/11. I was a junior in college, and I had a statistics test that I wasn’t nuts about taking. But, the…Sep 11, 2020Sep 11, 2020