Michelle Panchuk
@michellepanchuk.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy writing about religious trauma, philosophy of religion, and feminist philosophy. Triathlete. (she/her)
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Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Religious Trauma
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Pleased to share that my Cambridge Element, Religious Trauma, has been released online. While a work of philosophy, it aims to be accessible to a lay audience, introducing readers to the phenomenon and scholarship, and moving the conversation forward.
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We should not, as philosophers of religion, accept self-serving (non)apologies that take no responsibility for concrete wrongs done and lack any evidence of genuine remorse, change, or making of amends. Predators don’t get to decide when enough time has passed to go back to business as usual.
March 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We should not, as philosophers of religion, accept self-serving (non)apologies that take no responsibility for concrete wrongs done and lack any evidence of genuine remorse, change, or making of amends. Predators don’t get to decide when enough time has passed to go back to business as usual.
Unspeakably cruel and inhumane.
“Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor.”
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“Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor.”
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Unspeakably cruel and inhumane.
“Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor.”
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
“Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor.”
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
It’s important to keep repeating the reality of your lived experience and affirming it for others when being gaslighted. Here’s what i remember of the day when Russia invaded Ukraine.
I was at the APA hotel bar gabbing with Kate Norlock when my phone started blowing up, but i ignored it because…
I was at the APA hotel bar gabbing with Kate Norlock when my phone started blowing up, but i ignored it because…
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It’s important to keep repeating the reality of your lived experience and affirming it for others when being gaslighted. Here’s what i remember of the day when Russia invaded Ukraine.
I was at the APA hotel bar gabbing with Kate Norlock when my phone started blowing up, but i ignored it because…
I was at the APA hotel bar gabbing with Kate Norlock when my phone started blowing up, but i ignored it because…
My project this semester is to write on the nature of spiritual flourishing, how religious trauma undermines it, and what sorts of practices and virtues might promote individual and collective flourishing in the aftermath of religious trauma. One of the biggest challenges I’m facing is to…
February 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My project this semester is to write on the nature of spiritual flourishing, how religious trauma undermines it, and what sorts of practices and virtues might promote individual and collective flourishing in the aftermath of religious trauma. One of the biggest challenges I’m facing is to…
If you have read my Cambridge Element on Religious Trauma and are inclined to leave an Amazon, Goodreads, or StoryGraph review, I’d be grateful for the feedback and promotion!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Religious Trauma
www.cambridge.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you have read my Cambridge Element on Religious Trauma and are inclined to leave an Amazon, Goodreads, or StoryGraph review, I’d be grateful for the feedback and promotion!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
🧵1/6 As I have been reading Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio Hansen book, Speaking of Rape, it struck me that just as the myth of “real rape” can make it difficult for those who weren’t violently assaulted by a stranger in a dark alley to understand and communicate their experiences of sexual violation…
February 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🧵1/6 As I have been reading Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio Hansen book, Speaking of Rape, it struck me that just as the myth of “real rape” can make it difficult for those who weren’t violently assaulted by a stranger in a dark alley to understand and communicate their experiences of sexual violation…
Content Note: Child abuse
🧵(1/7) I just finished reading the child abuse laws of all 50 states. It is so grim. There are a few states that have robust protections. There are a few that have laws that specifically respond to the ways that poverty, disability, and culture have been used to justify…
🧵(1/7) I just finished reading the child abuse laws of all 50 states. It is so grim. There are a few states that have robust protections. There are a few that have laws that specifically respond to the ways that poverty, disability, and culture have been used to justify…
February 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Content Note: Child abuse
🧵(1/7) I just finished reading the child abuse laws of all 50 states. It is so grim. There are a few states that have robust protections. There are a few that have laws that specifically respond to the ways that poverty, disability, and culture have been used to justify…
🧵(1/7) I just finished reading the child abuse laws of all 50 states. It is so grim. There are a few states that have robust protections. There are a few that have laws that specifically respond to the ways that poverty, disability, and culture have been used to justify…
🧵(1/5) In light of the new EO, just a friendly reminder that *cisgender boys* are the population of minors getting the most surgical gender-affirming procedures, not trans kids. And almost all surgical gender-affirming care in minors is top surgery performed on older teens.
January 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🧵(1/5) In light of the new EO, just a friendly reminder that *cisgender boys* are the population of minors getting the most surgical gender-affirming procedures, not trans kids. And almost all surgical gender-affirming care in minors is top surgery performed on older teens.
It’s available for free download for 3 more days, y’all! You can also get a physical copy from CUP, Bookshop, or Amazon.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
January 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s available for free download for 3 more days, y’all! You can also get a physical copy from CUP, Bookshop, or Amazon.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Look what came in the mail today!
January 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Look what came in the mail today!
The myth that people who commit moral horrors are not brilliant, do not produce good work, are never fun to be around, prevents us from recognizing abuse and predation when it is happening. If the inference, “He is a moral monster, so his books must be trash” works, so does the inference,
January 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The myth that people who commit moral horrors are not brilliant, do not produce good work, are never fun to be around, prevents us from recognizing abuse and predation when it is happening. If the inference, “He is a moral monster, so his books must be trash” works, so does the inference,
“Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering, but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school and the law and every trade,” Yenor said.
“If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that’s not a failure. It’s kind of a cause for celebration,”
“If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that’s not a failure. It’s kind of a cause for celebration,”
January 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering, but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school and the law and every trade,” Yenor said.
“If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that’s not a failure. It’s kind of a cause for celebration,”
“If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that’s not a failure. It’s kind of a cause for celebration,”
So honored to have Rabbi and philosophy professor Samuel Lebens endorse my book!
It can be downloaded for free until the 23rd here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
It can be downloaded for free until the 23rd here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
January 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
So honored to have Rabbi and philosophy professor Samuel Lebens endorse my book!
It can be downloaded for free until the 23rd here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
It can be downloaded for free until the 23rd here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Content note: Child abuse
(1/2) Listening to Kuang’s Babel and was caught of guard by the child abuse scene near the beginning. The passage is especially upsetting if, as a child, you listened to adults at church swapping suggestions about how to accomplish this as part of “Biblical parenting.”
(1/2) Listening to Kuang’s Babel and was caught of guard by the child abuse scene near the beginning. The passage is especially upsetting if, as a child, you listened to adults at church swapping suggestions about how to accomplish this as part of “Biblical parenting.”
January 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Content note: Child abuse
(1/2) Listening to Kuang’s Babel and was caught of guard by the child abuse scene near the beginning. The passage is especially upsetting if, as a child, you listened to adults at church swapping suggestions about how to accomplish this as part of “Biblical parenting.”
(1/2) Listening to Kuang’s Babel and was caught of guard by the child abuse scene near the beginning. The passage is especially upsetting if, as a child, you listened to adults at church swapping suggestions about how to accomplish this as part of “Biblical parenting.”
(1/5) This came up in my newsfeed on FB today, and while I appreciate the sentiment, I feel like it missed what is most insidious about the marriage of religion and violence. There is a whole theological framework for explaining why the violence is *actually* an expression of neighbor love.
January 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
(1/5) This came up in my newsfeed on FB today, and while I appreciate the sentiment, I feel like it missed what is most insidious about the marriage of religion and violence. There is a whole theological framework for explaining why the violence is *actually* an expression of neighbor love.
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Michael Farris must be so proud. 🤣🤣🤣
January 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Michael Farris must be so proud. 🤣🤣🤣
Fun to watch people in the left who have been pretending to be pro-immigrant for years while pointing out that undocumented people aren’t taking the jobs Americans actually want jump on the “Immigrants are stealing the *good* American jobs” train.
January 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Fun to watch people in the left who have been pretending to be pro-immigrant for years while pointing out that undocumented people aren’t taking the jobs Americans actually want jump on the “Immigrants are stealing the *good* American jobs” train.
I’ve been listening to Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich for the past few days. The section “On Cries and Whispers…and Exhilaration” where Margarita Pogrebitskaya (sp?) tells her story feels like it could have been told by someone who (reluctantly) left Evangelicalism.
January 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’ve been listening to Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich for the past few days. The section “On Cries and Whispers…and Exhilaration” where Margarita Pogrebitskaya (sp?) tells her story feels like it could have been told by someone who (reluctantly) left Evangelicalism.
Reposted by Michelle Panchuk
"In the context of religious trauma, both those holding institutional power & the general community often need not to know of the reality & pervasiveness of abuse within their communities. Knowing might threaten a status quo in which they find comfort & meaning." - @michellepanchuk.bsky.social
My Element is available for free download from Cambridge University Press today!
"Even as the general public is horrified and entertained by [accounts of religious trauma], deep understanding of the unique contours of trauma inflicted in religious contexts…
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
"Even as the general public is horrified and entertained by [accounts of religious trauma], deep understanding of the unique contours of trauma inflicted in religious contexts…
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Religious Trauma
www.cambridge.org
January 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"In the context of religious trauma, both those holding institutional power & the general community often need not to know of the reality & pervasiveness of abuse within their communities. Knowing might threaten a status quo in which they find comfort & meaning." - @michellepanchuk.bsky.social
Cozy winter afternoon drinking Earl Grey and reading Jessica Coblentz’s book, Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression while my kiddo naps.
January 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Cozy winter afternoon drinking Earl Grey and reading Jessica Coblentz’s book, Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression while my kiddo naps.
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My newest piece of flash fiction is up on @kaleidotrope.bsky.social -- what if you could live forever?
With some yogacara philosophy. Maybe fun for @lastpositivist.bsky.social @neuroyogacara.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
With some yogacara philosophy. Maybe fun for @lastpositivist.bsky.social @neuroyogacara.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
“The Diamond Mountain” by Helen De Cruz
kaleidotrope.net
January 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My newest piece of flash fiction is up on @kaleidotrope.bsky.social -- what if you could live forever?
With some yogacara philosophy. Maybe fun for @lastpositivist.bsky.social @neuroyogacara.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
With some yogacara philosophy. Maybe fun for @lastpositivist.bsky.social @neuroyogacara.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
Reposted by Michelle Panchuk
If you're striving to better understand the unique contours of religious trauma, check out this piece from @michellepanchuk.bsky.social, which is available for free download until Jan. 23.
So much that's so good in it. I recommend. #ChurchToo
So much that's so good in it. I recommend. #ChurchToo
My Element is available for free download from Cambridge University Press today!
"Even as the general public is horrified and entertained by [accounts of religious trauma], deep understanding of the unique contours of trauma inflicted in religious contexts…
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
"Even as the general public is horrified and entertained by [accounts of religious trauma], deep understanding of the unique contours of trauma inflicted in religious contexts…
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Religious Trauma
www.cambridge.org
January 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you're striving to better understand the unique contours of religious trauma, check out this piece from @michellepanchuk.bsky.social, which is available for free download until Jan. 23.
So much that's so good in it. I recommend. #ChurchToo
So much that's so good in it. I recommend. #ChurchToo
My year in books. Also almost finished with Kenneth Pargament and Julie Exline’s Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy and Jessica Coblentz’s Dust in the Blood.
December 31, 2024 at 7:52 PM
My year in books. Also almost finished with Kenneth Pargament and Julie Exline’s Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy and Jessica Coblentz’s Dust in the Blood.
My cat is very happy we are home after holiday travels.
December 30, 2024 at 5:33 PM
My cat is very happy we are home after holiday travels.
My book will be available for free download for the next couple of weeks:
My Element is available for free download from Cambridge University Press today!
"Even as the general public is horrified and entertained by [accounts of religious trauma], deep understanding of the unique contours of trauma inflicted in religious contexts…
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
"Even as the general public is horrified and entertained by [accounts of religious trauma], deep understanding of the unique contours of trauma inflicted in religious contexts…
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Religious Trauma
www.cambridge.org
December 30, 2024 at 3:09 PM
My book will be available for free download for the next couple of weeks: