Cara Burnidge
@burnidge.bsky.social
Historian of religion and politics in the US. Researching “progressive” political and religious movements and teaching undergraduates about religious diversity in the US and what they can do with their Religious Studies majors.
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
My dept is hiring in Religious Ethics!
4/4 load, renewable term with path to promotion (not tenure stream). Specialty open in applied ethics.
Happy to answer questions! #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25 @aarwomenscaucus.bsky.social
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4/4 load, renewable term with path to promotion (not tenure stream). Specialty open in applied ethics.
Happy to answer questions! #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25 @aarwomenscaucus.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Instruction - Religious Ethics
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November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My dept is hiring in Religious Ethics!
4/4 load, renewable term with path to promotion (not tenure stream). Specialty open in applied ethics.
Happy to answer questions! #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25 @aarwomenscaucus.bsky.social
uni.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNI/jo...
4/4 load, renewable term with path to promotion (not tenure stream). Specialty open in applied ethics.
Happy to answer questions! #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25 @aarwomenscaucus.bsky.social
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This Back Pages series is wonderful!
I have been thinking about this book on and off for the last year! I’m so glad it’s featured here because, as AP notes, there are through lines to reckon with, especially when trying to understand how white Christian women wield piety as power.
I have been thinking about this book on and off for the last year! I’m so glad it’s featured here because, as AP notes, there are through lines to reckon with, especially when trying to understand how white Christian women wield piety as power.
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Amanda Porterfield on her book Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992). Porterfield reflects on puritan rhetoric and the trial of Anne Hutchinson. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/b...
Back to the Puritans — American Religion
Amanda Porterfield on Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992)
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October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This Back Pages series is wonderful!
I have been thinking about this book on and off for the last year! I’m so glad it’s featured here because, as AP notes, there are through lines to reckon with, especially when trying to understand how white Christian women wield piety as power.
I have been thinking about this book on and off for the last year! I’m so glad it’s featured here because, as AP notes, there are through lines to reckon with, especially when trying to understand how white Christian women wield piety as power.
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Is there anything better than having scholars you admire engage closely with your work? Thanks Cara Burnidge, Karine Walther, Kate Moran, Mike Verney, and Jay Sexton! @burnidge.bsky.social @karinewalther.bsky.social
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H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-4 on Conroy-Krutz, _Missionary Diplomacy_ | H-Net
H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-4 Emily Conroy-Krutz. Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations. Cornell University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781501773983.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Is there anything better than having scholars you admire engage closely with your work? Thanks Cara Burnidge, Karine Walther, Kate Moran, Mike Verney, and Jay Sexton! @burnidge.bsky.social @karinewalther.bsky.social
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This quote:
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
Chiming in on Lynn Hunt. A gorgeous prose writer - and she works at it, which is why I also love assigning this by her! www.historians.org/perspectives...
How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This quote:
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
"We want to gear on the side of entertainment," he said, "because we think especially biblical content is over-indexed to educational." …is a remarkable statement given Religious Studies Departments around the country closing.
"The AI Bible is a way to really bring these stories to life in a way that people have never seen before. Think of if we were like, the Marvel Universe of faith," said one of the site's creators.
Fantasy or faith? One company's AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy
"The AI Bible is a way to really bring these stories to life in a way that people have never seen before. Think of if we were like, the Marvel Universe of faith," said one of the site's creators.
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September 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"We want to gear on the side of entertainment," he said, "because we think especially biblical content is over-indexed to educational." …is a remarkable statement given Religious Studies Departments around the country closing.
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I’m teaching modern US history survey in-person in the spring for the first time in six years. What are the new cool supplemental books to assign students? 🗃️
September 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’m teaching modern US history survey in-person in the spring for the first time in six years. What are the new cool supplemental books to assign students? 🗃️
One of the reading groups this fall at my institution is @cjdenial.bsky.social Pedagogy of Kindness. Love to see it!
September 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One of the reading groups this fall at my institution is @cjdenial.bsky.social Pedagogy of Kindness. Love to see it!
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@uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website 🎉 You can save 50% off all books, including pre-orders of mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50!
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Plus there are new blurbs from @therubellion.bsky.social and @rachelbgross.bsky.social!
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Plus there are new blurbs from @therubellion.bsky.social and @rachelbgross.bsky.social!
Free-Range Religion
Ethical and moral concerns about food and diet commonly feature in individuals' religious identities and expressions. These concerns extend beyond what one s...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
@uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website 🎉 You can save 50% off all books, including pre-orders of mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50!
uncpress.org/978146969032...
Plus there are new blurbs from @therubellion.bsky.social and @rachelbgross.bsky.social!
uncpress.org/978146969032...
Plus there are new blurbs from @therubellion.bsky.social and @rachelbgross.bsky.social!
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In Arlington, a church and artist mark sidewalks where ICE tore families apart. These ‘stumbling stickers’ force memory onto public ground—reminders of grief, resistance, and the refusal to let erasure win.
Local church and artist memorialize Arlington ICE arrests with ‘stumbling stickers’ | ARLnow.com
A new collaboration between a South Arlington church and a local artist is seeking to memorialize places where immigration enforcement has arrested people in Arlington. Led by the Rev. Ashley Goff, me...
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August 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In Arlington, a church and artist mark sidewalks where ICE tore families apart. These ‘stumbling stickers’ force memory onto public ground—reminders of grief, resistance, and the refusal to let erasure win.
So much is happening in the Sweeney ad and it’s not just the play on the word “jeans.” There’s also a play being had on emphasizing her jeans being “blue.”
How did blue get passed down for generations?
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How did blue get passed down for generations?
www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ame...
Race, Slavery, and Blue Jeans | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS LearningMedia
Learn how the production of indigo and denim relied on the skills and labor of enslaved people brought to colonial America from Africa and how these products became vital to the economies of the South...
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July 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
So much is happening in the Sweeney ad and it’s not just the play on the word “jeans.” There’s also a play being had on emphasizing her jeans being “blue.”
How did blue get passed down for generations?
www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ame...
How did blue get passed down for generations?
www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ame...
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Critical secularism studies - are we still doing this? Any juice left in that lime? I say yes!
New from me in JAAR -
“Review Essay: Critical Secularism Studies in These Times” academic.oup.com/jaar/article...
“Review Essay: Critical Secularism Studies in These Times” academic.oup.com/jaar/article...
Review Essay: Critical Secularism Studies in These Times: The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and the Poetics of World-MakingSecularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global So...
In our era of polycrisis, so many targets of struggle and critique are linked, overlapping, symbiotic. It is imperative but difficult to find terminology t
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July 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Critical secularism studies - are we still doing this? Any juice left in that lime? I say yes!
<turning to look directly at the camera from an office at a public, teaching-emphasis university>
one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution
July 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
<turning to look directly at the camera from an office at a public, teaching-emphasis university>
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thinking for no apparent reason about @felixh.bsky.social's brilliantly titled chapter "Invisible Umpires" in his book Ku Klux Kulture
July 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
thinking for no apparent reason about @felixh.bsky.social's brilliantly titled chapter "Invisible Umpires" in his book Ku Klux Kulture
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www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/died...
Excellent piece by @danielsilliman.bsky.social
These two screen shots are horrifying
Excellent piece by @danielsilliman.bsky.social
These two screen shots are horrifying
July 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/died...
Excellent piece by @danielsilliman.bsky.social
These two screen shots are horrifying
Excellent piece by @danielsilliman.bsky.social
These two screen shots are horrifying
How to I not merely dislike a Spotify suggestion but make the algorithm feel shame for even suggesting it in the first place?
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
How to I not merely dislike a Spotify suggestion but make the algorithm feel shame for even suggesting it in the first place?
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It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
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Tale as old as time.
The cycle is:
Enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so the legislature says terminate the program.
Enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so the legislature says terminate the program.
As usual, this is being done under the guise of “fiscal responsibility”, but imposing minimum numbers of degrees granted for a program to survive is shortsighted and may cost more long-term, as programs are closed at the whims of the legislature and universities can if respond if demand shifts again
July 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Tale as old as time.
“His deftness in removing the specter of violence from his own narrative is a reminder of the ways violence against women is normalized. It isn’t that people don’t believe in what happened to Jolie on that plane — they just don’t care.”
I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...
Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“His deftness in removing the specter of violence from his own narrative is a reminder of the ways violence against women is normalized. It isn’t that people don’t believe in what happened to Jolie on that plane — they just don’t care.”
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“Swaggart’s scandals taught aspiring megachurch personalities that institutional accountability was no longer required when it came to redemption in the age of independent media.”
the latest from RD: @suzzzanna.bsky.social on Jimmy Swaggart's most enduring legacy -- getting away with it
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'The LORD told me it’s flat none of your business': Jimmy Swaggart’s Scandalous Legacy
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died yesterday. He’ll be remembered in many ways—as a charismatic preacher and talented singer (Swaggart was Jerry Lee Lewis' cousin). But perhaps his most lasting legacy ...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“Swaggart’s scandals taught aspiring megachurch personalities that institutional accountability was no longer required when it came to redemption in the age of independent media.”
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I left my purse in a library today and the librarian who found it saw my library card in my wallet, called my local branch to get my number, called me to come back and get the purse, and then apologized to me for invading my privacy.
We do not deserve librarians.
We do not deserve librarians.
July 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I left my purse in a library today and the librarian who found it saw my library card in my wallet, called my local branch to get my number, called me to come back and get the purse, and then apologized to me for invading my privacy.
We do not deserve librarians.
We do not deserve librarians.
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UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
July 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
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BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏
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@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social
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There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote.
In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.
In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.
June 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏
@ccp-org.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social
@ccp-org.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social
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So what this brief paragraph and single footnote does is accuse Thomas, not only of failing to practice what he preaches but doing so in a very specific way that produces very specific effects. Ignoring Black voices gets you bad originalism that harms people. Now as then. Whew.
June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
So what this brief paragraph and single footnote does is accuse Thomas, not only of failing to practice what he preaches but doing so in a very specific way that produces very specific effects. Ignoring Black voices gets you bad originalism that harms people. Now as then. Whew.
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"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.
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Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love
"The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.
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June 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
www.startribune.com/what-should-...