The textbooks for my “Public Faith and Christian Nationalism” course are set.

I'm excited to welcome six guest lecturers and step out of my comfort zone with a major social media experiment/lab on inoculative messaging. Yikes!

Auditors are welcome...

Wrapping up a profound few days at the “Signs of the Times: Interdisciplinary Responses to Religious Nationalism” conference at Notre Dame.

It was a huge privilege to present a paper on the Bible and human security with @kdumez.bsky.social and @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social

Onward together!

Digging in. 🦺

Major takeaway from one of the world's foremost scholar practitioners of peacebuilding:

Don't underestimate the “unnoticed micro-spectacular" things you do to disrupt hate, fear, and toxic polarization (when it's safe to do so).

to a matter of weeks or months (64 percent of QAnon offenders radicalized in less than one year). In other words, adherence to QAnon conspiracies is an accelerant for violent extremism.

“I got caught up in the moment.”

These are the words of Capitol insurrectionist Josiah Colt from Idaho who was memorably photographed swinging from the Senate balcony onto the floor. According to reports, Colt and his two companions showed up to the insurrection with multiple weapons, including+

Happy New Year, friends!

Looking to read about how to counter Christian nationalism's threat to democracy and the church's public witness in 2025?

Here are fourteen books that impacted me in the past year, including a shameless plug for my own approach. 😀

I was hoping the shelf life of this book would be short and sweet but here we are.

It's not too late to order as a stocking stuffer! 🎁🎄

Kicking off Christmas break this morning with two very, very good books. ☕️

(This collection of NT essays is one of the best I’ve ever read. So well done.)

Fellow profs, has anyone had issues getting a desk copy from ⁦‪@OUPAcademic‬⁩?

I’ve got 17 students purchasing this book for my Revelation class. All they will offer is a 20% discount.

Fine, I’ll pay for it but publishers half their size don’t penny pinch on this. 🤔

Huge congrats to my many colleagues and friends who contributed to this massive project.

For those not in the know, this is the first Bible to my knowledge that includes curated study notes from scholars AND the people. ✊

#AnabaptismAt500

“The reasons for a war that never happens are many. But one clear element, perhaps the motherlode vein, may well be that a thousand unnoticed micro-spectacular acts of dignity and humility can shift toxicity enough that the knife-edge of violence is avoided.”

Important book alert. 🚨🙌

Happening tomorrow!

Registration link in comment below.👇

SBL friends,

Don't miss this review panel next weekend of Jeremy Williams's paradigm shifting book "Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles: Race, Rhetoric, and Christian Prosecution."

An amazing lineup. 😀 Can't wait!

#AARSBL24