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Eric Vanden Eykel

Eric Vanden Eykel

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…

6 min readJan 6, 2023

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Preaching Epiphany?

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Eric Vanden Eykel

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…

14 min readNov 28, 2022

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Black and white photo of prison bars.

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Eric Vanden Eykel

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.

6 min readSep 24, 2021

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

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Eric Vanden Eykel

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…

5 min readSep 14, 2020

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On Classrooms and Surveillance States

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Eric Vanden Eykel

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…

4 min readSep 11, 2020

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

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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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