David W. Congdon
@dwcongdon.com
Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas | Lecturer, KU | Who Is a New Christian? (Cambridge, 2024) | Bylines: Christian Century, Sojourners, Presby Outlook, Revealer
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David W. Congdon
@dwcongdon.com
· Nov 19
Who gets to define Christianity?
David Congdon links postliberal theology to the exclusionary politics of the Christian...
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My book was reviewed in Christian Century today, and I think it's a very well-done and fair analysis of my project.
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As Sir Ian taught us, such mountainish inhumanity.
Amber Glenn won Olympic gold on Sunday. That same day, she left social media because of death threats. Her offense: she'd told reporters the queer community is going through "a hard time." The headline called it "backlash." www.readtpa.com/p/the-thresh...
The Threshold
The right used to attack athletes who protested. Now they attack athletes who express feelings at all.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
As Sir Ian taught us, such mountainish inhumanity.
What a curling game! That was intense drama.
February 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
What a curling game! That was intense drama.
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This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
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Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.
Me in today’s “One First”:
Me in today’s “One First”:
209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten
The February 2016 rulings blocking the Clean Power Plan were unprecedented; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a paradigm shift in the Supreme Court's role.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.
Me in today’s “One First”:
Me in today’s “One First”:
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The Yorgos Lanthimos-directed commercial transition right into the Minions teaser. Cinema!
February 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The Yorgos Lanthimos-directed commercial transition right into the Minions teaser. Cinema!
The Testament of Ann Lee was so good—like it was lab-engineered for me personally. The soundtrack alone is incredible.
February 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The Testament of Ann Lee was so good—like it was lab-engineered for me personally. The soundtrack alone is incredible.
As an editor, reading this infuriates me.
"With the *help* of AI." Emphasis mine. What rank bullshittery, in which, yes, sad to say, 50,000 readers were made unwitting accomplices.
February 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
As an editor, reading this infuriates me.
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Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
Or in my case, I adjunct because my main job doesn’t pay enough.
This headline in The Chronicle makes it sound like most adjuncts are independently wealthy when the reality is they have to hold second and third jobs just to make ends meet.
February 8, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Or in my case, I adjunct because my main job doesn’t pay enough.
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An excellent response to Reno’s FT article by @dwcongdon.com.
Live, Love, and (Post-)Liberalism: A Response to R. R. Reno
An initial rejoinder to Reno’s “Postliberalism and Theology” (First Things, Feb 2026)
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:25 AM
An excellent response to Reno’s FT article by @dwcongdon.com.
Over at my substack, I've written a long response to Rusty Reno's essay in FT about my recent Journal of Religion article. We agree on my claim that postliberal theology paved the way for today's postliberalism. But we disagree on everything else.
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Live, Love, and (Post-)Liberalism: A Response to R. R. Reno
An initial rejoinder to Reno’s “Postliberalism and Theology” (First Things, Feb 2026)
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Over at my substack, I've written a long response to Rusty Reno's essay in FT about my recent Journal of Religion article. We agree on my claim that postliberal theology paved the way for today's postliberalism. But we disagree on everything else.
open.substack.com/pub/dwcongdo...
open.substack.com/pub/dwcongdo...
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NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
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Trump’s administration is racially profiling people for the purposes of what it claims to be “immigration enforcement,” and federal agents have murdered people. They’re setting up camps. Like, yeah, the tweet was racist, but if that’s the line you draw—really? www.axios.com/2026/02/06/r...
"Appalling": Republicans condemn Trump's racist video of Obamas
"The President's post is wrong and incredibly offensive — whether intentional or a mistake," one GOP lawmaker said.
www.axios.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Trump’s administration is racially profiling people for the purposes of what it claims to be “immigration enforcement,” and federal agents have murdered people. They’re setting up camps. Like, yeah, the tweet was racist, but if that’s the line you draw—really? www.axios.com/2026/02/06/r...
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1. In Washington yesterday, at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president actually took credit for the Bible being a bestseller.
“In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years,” Donald Trump said.
“In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years,” Donald Trump said.
February 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
1. In Washington yesterday, at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president actually took credit for the Bible being a bestseller.
“In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years,” Donald Trump said.
“In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years,” Donald Trump said.
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The GOP thinks this is different than their own gerrymandering bc they see this as people not in the Herrenvolk getting disproportionate representation. They don’t think liberals & city voters are real Americans, so when they do it it’s fine. They have told us this, here in WI & across 🇺🇸, for years:
February 7, 2026 at 3:40 AM
The GOP thinks this is different than their own gerrymandering bc they see this as people not in the Herrenvolk getting disproportionate representation. They don’t think liberals & city voters are real Americans, so when they do it it’s fine. They have told us this, here in WI & across 🇺🇸, for years:
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“Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. violated treaties to illegally hunt for dinosaur bones on Native lands with child sex traffickers,” is the most American sentence I have ever read.
February 7, 2026 at 2:58 AM
“Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. violated treaties to illegally hunt for dinosaur bones on Native lands with child sex traffickers,” is the most American sentence I have ever read.
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what
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files
The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.
trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
what
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This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court.
And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
February 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court.
And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
The implications of this dystopian bill are staggering.
I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/
February 6, 2026 at 10:47 PM
The implications of this dystopian bill are staggering.
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True art. True humanity. What the struggle is all about.
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 6, 2026 at 8:41 PM
True art. True humanity. What the struggle is all about.
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As a nation, we used to remember the time Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation in the White House as an example of a bad thing we shouldn’t do again. This administration sees it as brilliant owning of the libs that they’re trying to one-up. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The President of the US is a eugenicist white nationalist. It’s like having Woodrow Wilson back in the White House, only without any of the good parts.
Trump: "Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore. We can argue about it but there's no argument. Friends come back from different places and say, 'I don't recognize it.' And that's not in a positive way. That's in a very negative way."
February 6, 2026 at 1:28 PM
As a nation, we used to remember the time Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation in the White House as an example of a bad thing we shouldn’t do again. This administration sees it as brilliant owning of the libs that they’re trying to one-up. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Wow indeed.
wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
February 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Wow indeed.
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National Prayer Breakfast is this morning. While lots of coverage about it will mention power of evangelicals, NPB was started by mainline Protestant politicians & preachers, as Beau Underwood & I documented in Baptizing America: bookshop.org/a/110819/978... 1/
February 5, 2026 at 1:09 PM
National Prayer Breakfast is this morning. While lots of coverage about it will mention power of evangelicals, NPB was started by mainline Protestant politicians & preachers, as Beau Underwood & I documented in Baptizing America: bookshop.org/a/110819/978... 1/
They’ve manufactured a bottleneck and now are using that bottleneck to justify violating the right to due process so they can carry out their plans without resistance.
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
February 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
They’ve manufactured a bottleneck and now are using that bottleneck to justify violating the right to due process so they can carry out their plans without resistance.
A couple good books to make sense of this.
February 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
A couple good books to make sense of this.