James F. McGrath (ReligionProf)
@religionprof.bsky.social
Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University in Indianapolis
James Frank McGrath is an American scholar of religion. He is the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University. He is known for his work on Early Christianity, Mandaeism, criticism of the Christ myth theory, and the analysis of religion in science fiction. .. more
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Megyn Kelly Doesn't "Give A Damn" 40M Americans Speak Spanish, Football Belongs Only To White People - Joe.My.God.
MEGYN KELLY: “I’m sorry, Piers, but to get up there and perform the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America! Who gives a damn that we have 40 million Spanish speakers? We have…
www.joemygod.com
Megyn Kelly Doesn't "Give A Damn" 40M Americans Speak Spanish, Football Belongs Only To White People
TPUSA Warns That ‘The Left is Activating Their Terror Cells’
TPUSA follows its "All American" halftime show with dire warnings to scare conservatives into giving them more money.
www.peoplefor.org
TPUSA Warns That ‘The Left is Activating Their Terror Cells’ | People For www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
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Trump: “Everyone” knew about Epstein, Maxwell was “evil”
Michael W. Smith Worshipwashes Trump’s Profanity and Lies - Word&Way
After President Donald Trump rambled, lied, and cursed for 77 minutes at the National Prayer Breakfast, a prominent Christian musician went to the piano to bless it.
wordandway.org
Michael W. Smith Worshipwashes Trump’s Profanity and Lies - Word&Way
Jesus in the Junk Shop
hedgehogreview.com
I have no idea how to summarize this, and yet think it is worth sharing.
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hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data
At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.
www.brennancenter.org
“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
March for Life Attendees Are Getting Measles
It turns out the anti-abortion March for Life demonstration was a measles superspreader event.
newrepublic.com
Perhaps rename it the ‘March to Preserve Zygotes at the Expense of Adult Human Lives’?
ICE mobile app scans protester's face, revokes her TSA PreCheck status
If you're protesting ICE, it might be a good idea to wear a mask.
www.sfgate.com
ICE mobile app scans protester's face, revokes her TSA PreCheck status
Make Great Christianity Again
The title of this post does indeed have the words in the right order - I intentionally wrote "Make great Christianity again." I'll explain what I mean by
www.patheos.com
Yes, the words in the title of this post are in the correct order I intended them to be.
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Say it loud: Racism is heresy
Trump's disgusting post is part of a dehumanizing history
bethfelkerjones.substack.com
Beth Felker Jones writes, “The worship of whiteness is idolatry, and it has evil consequences. Beautiful, beloved human beings who bear the image of God are dehumanized, are treated as less than the beautiful, beloved, image bearers they are.”
Plateau
Clear morning, and it hasn’t rained since sometime last night, so the circumstances for my run were pretty favourable. Still, I’m stuck at my current post-ankle plateau, more than a minute slower t…
akma.disseminary.org
Did Bad Bunny listen to a presidential press conference and say, ‘Nobody understands a word this guy is saying’?
akma.disseminary.org/2026/02/9954/
akma.disseminary.org/2026/02/9954/
The Awakening of Liberal Arts Produces AI Movement
An opportunity to build on a previous talk
aiedusimplified.substack.com
Lance Eaton writes, ‘When we respond by pretending AI isn’t there or by drawing hard lines that don’t reflect how knowledge actually circulates, we remove ourselves from the process and don’t protect rigor…’
Administration Refuses Visa for Deported Babson Student
The Trump administration has refused to issue a nonimmigrant student visa to a Babson College student whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement wrongfully deported to Honduras in November. The…
www.insidehighered.com
Administration Refuses Visa for Deported Babson Student www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Jackasses in Jackboots: When Ice Met Minnesota Nice - 3 Quarks Daily
by Mark HarveyThe biggest hazard on my one trip to Minneapolis was being invited to too many family picnics and possibly dying from an overdose of mayonnaise.
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“I don’t think too many of us were expecting Minnesota to be our modern-day Gettysburg, when all those nice people came out onto the streets to fight Trump’s reviled brand of fascism.”
Trump’s Prescription Drug Website Exposed as a Big Fat Scam
TrumpRx is pretending like it’s helping consumers more than it is.
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Prescription Drug Website Exposed as a Big Fat Scam
Loomer Wails Halftime Show Wasn't "White Enough" - Joe.My.God.
“What the hell is this illegal alien farm worker non English shit on my TV. Someone call ICE. Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl. Not a single white person or English translation...
www.joemygod.com
More explicit racism on display as Loomer wails Halftime Show wasn't "White Enough"
Kid Rock’s ‘All-American Halftime Show’ Goes Light on Politics, Feeling More Like an Old CMT Special Than Super Bowl Protest Event
Turning Point's 'All-American Halftime Show' offered almost no provocation, as Kid Rock kept it mild and country stars aired just a few lyrical complaints.
variety.com
Kid Rock lip synced at Turning Point 'All-American Halftime Show'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/07/hegseth-pengaton-harvard-woke/
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Pentagon cuts academic ties with ‘woke’ Harvard - The Washington Post
Turning Point USA halftime show crashes and burns with only 4% of Bad Bunny views | Irish Star
Turning Point USA's All-American Halftime Show drew only 5.2 million viewers compared to the 127 million who watched Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance
www.irishstar.com
Turning Point USA’s so-called alternative Super Bowl half time show seems to have been the musical equivalent of one of Donald Trump’s parade…
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
www.nature.com
LLMs do not have sentience. Can imitation of human speech patterns nonetheless justify the claim that they have "human-level intelligence"? This article seems to assume that meeting benchmarks is indicative of intelligence, a claim that is at best problematic.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Christianity and the Rise of Science - Science for the Church
Bible & Science—Ministry Resource: Close connections between Christianity and the rise of science that undercut the conflict thesis
scienceforthechurch.org
When it comes to the intersection of religion and science, getting the history right matters
scienceforthechurch.org/2026/01/13/c...
scienceforthechurch.org/2026/01/13/c...
Inside The Minnesota Immigration Fight's Religious Fault Lines
The Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in Minnesota — which has led to confrontations with protesters and two high-profile shooting deaths of U.S. citizens — has dominated…
religionunplugged.com
Inside The Minnesota Immigration Fight's Religious Fault Lines
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religionunplugged.com/news/2026/1/...
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Catholic Cardinals vs. the Trump administration. Who do you think wins?
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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Curious Discipleship: Exploring Faith and Science Together - Science for the Church
Bible & Science—Ministry Resource: Curious discipleship means exploring faith and science and allowing them to enrich one another
scienceforthechurch.org
Faith that explores into the realm of science is something that we did in my Sunday school class today, and something that I encourage everyone to embrace in my book Beyond Deconstruction
scienceforthechurch.org/2026/01/27/c...
scienceforthechurch.org/2026/01/27/c...
Minneapolis pastor detained by ICE on the same day Renee Good was shot and killed
A Minneapolis pastor said Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pointed a gun in his face at a protest.
www.kare11.com
Minneapolis pastor detained by ICE on the same day Renee Good was shot and killed said he was released because he was a white male
www.kare11.com/article/news...
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Two Episcopal bishops say clergy may have to put 'bodies on the line' to resist ICE
(RNS) — ‘I’ve asked (clergy) to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written,’ said the Rt. Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire.
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Two Episcopal bishops say clergy may have to put 'bodies on the line' to resist ICE
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religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District – A 20-year Retrospective on Using the Law to Defend Scientific Integrity - ACLU of Pennsylvania
Twenty years ago, in December of 2005, a federal court in Pennsylvania issued a ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District that an effort to teach so-called Intelligent Design Creationism as…
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Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District – A 20-year Retrospective on Using the Law to Defend Scientific Integrity
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www.aclupa.org/kiztmiller-v...
The Clergy Letter Project
Michael Zimmerman
www.theclergyletterproject.org
I always make sure that my congregation is on the list. I didn't know that we'd jump the gun and get there today my discussing how stories of exorcisms in the New Testament relate to modern scientific and medical knowledge!
www.theclergyletterproject.org/rasweekend20...
www.theclergyletterproject.org/rasweekend20...