Hoping the worst of #storméowyn has passed. Thankfully everything's ok with us but my nervous dog has been extra clingy today. This is how she politely tucks herself against my leg to ask for comfort 😭

In "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation", @kkdumez.bsky.social outlines how the cultural and political world of American evangelicalism has been historically shaped by white militant masculinity (5/7)

Writing from an anti-racist, Christian faith-based perspective, @jemartisby.bsky.social's “The Color of Compromise” is a powerful historical survey outlining American Protestantism’s complicity in the construction of racism and white supremacy in the USA (4/7)

In “The Flag and the Cross”, sociologists Philip Gorski and Sam Perry argue that White Christian Nationalism (a kind of “ethno-traditionalism” based on a conflation of racial, faith, and national identity, combined with libertarian individualism) is the unifying force in US right-wing populism (3/7)

"White Evangelical Racism" - @antheabutler.bsky.social sets out a blistering socio-historical analysis of the ways racism and white supremacy have been historically interwoven within the structures of American evangelicalism (2/7)

Don't know much about Anglicanism but had nerdy thought this would be a fun ethnographic rabbit hole for someone into Anglicanism, syncretism and English folk traditions. Also the Cathedral's illumination window (in memory of a student who died, and would be around my age by now) was beautiful (2/2)

Made a short visit to Durham last week for some training, and by happy accident, visited the cathedral on Plough Sunday- an annual ritual marking the start of the agricultural year with a decorated plough being borne through the city by Morris dancers before being blessed by the cathedral Dean (1/2)

Taking a brief respite from PhD work to celebrate graduating from my Master's in Social Science Research today @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in the gorgeous, December sunshine

Excited and mildly terrified to have my first academic conference abstract accepted for a session at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology - looking forward to hopefully meeting and learning from lots of other sociologists, and talking racialization and NI evangelical missions in Rabat, Morocco next July!😱

Been holded up with COVID for the past week and by the looks of her, I think the dog is even more over it than I am😆(symptoms are fairly mild and hopefully the worst is over)