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Rituals of Autumnal Endurance: An Ethnographic Study of Post-Industrial North Americans

In the crisp and chilly days of autumn, when the skies began to darken earlier and the cold crept insidiously through the cracks of…

Nov 1, 2024

Rituals of Autumnal Endurance: An Ethnographic Study of Post-Industrial North Americans

Nov 1, 2024

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, 2023

Preaching Epiphany?

Jan 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, 2022

Black and white photo of prison bars.

Nov 28, 2022

Trumpism and White Christianity, or: Why You Need to Stop Calling Trumpism a Cult

Instead 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, 2021

Trumpism and White Christianity, or: Why You Need to Stop Calling Trumpism a Cult

Sep 24, 2021

On Classrooms and Surveillance States

In 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, 2020

On Classrooms and Surveillance States

Sep 14, 2020

No, we did not respond “calmly” to 9/11

Like 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, 2020

No, we did not respond “calmly” to 9/11

Sep 11, 2020

Eric Vanden Eykel

Eric Vanden Eykel

Ph.D. in Christian Origins, Associate Prof. of Religion @FerrumCollege. Thoughts on Early Christianity, religion in the US, politics, and teaching.

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