Heather Hartung
@hch2.bsky.social
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Trump’s DOJ forced UVA President Jim Ryan to resign. Wesleyan President Michael Roth calls it what it is: an assault on academic freedom and a warning sign of tyranny. A must-read for anyone who cares about democracy:
A Message from a University President: Jim Ryan’s Questions
Guest article by Michael Roth
www.meidasplus.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Trump’s DOJ forced UVA President Jim Ryan to resign. Wesleyan President Michael Roth calls it what it is: an assault on academic freedom and a warning sign of tyranny. A must-read for anyone who cares about democracy:
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NEW: For years, my team has been working on a report about major changes in the global religious landscape between 2010 and 2020.
Here's the full thing: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
I'll post key findings below.
Here's the full thing: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
I'll post key findings below.
How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020
Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed, according ...
www.pewresearch.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
NEW: For years, my team has been working on a report about major changes in the global religious landscape between 2010 and 2020.
Here's the full thing: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
I'll post key findings below.
Here's the full thing: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
I'll post key findings below.
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"At the 100 days mark, in cases where courts have issued a ruling, plaintiffs have succeeded over 71% of the time in blocking the government’s actions."
My latest Newsletter
My latest Newsletter
100 Days | In the Know with Just Security’s Trump Administration Litigation Tracker
""At the 100 days mark, in cases where courts have issued a ruling, plaintiffs have succeeded over 71% of the time in blocking the government’s actions...."
open.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"At the 100 days mark, in cases where courts have issued a ruling, plaintiffs have succeeded over 71% of the time in blocking the government’s actions."
My latest Newsletter
My latest Newsletter
Reposted by Heather Hartung
Reposted by Heather Hartung
I begin, “We gotta figure this out together. Ecumenical Christians, we who believe God has endowed every human being with dignity and who own the call to love God fully and our neighbors as ourselves, have yet to voice adequate public responses to the dominionist streams of Christianity….”
Biblical scholar @gregcareyphd.bsky.social makes the case that in a time of conspicuous Christian Nationalism, the rest of us need to articulate our most basic Christian values in ways that are affirmative rather than defensive.
The Best Response to Dominionist Christianities Is To Testify - Word&Way
Biblical scholar Greg Carey makes the case that in a time of conspicuous Christian Nationalism, the rest of us need to articulate our most basic Christian values in ways that are affirmative rather th...
wordandway.org
February 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I begin, “We gotta figure this out together. Ecumenical Christians, we who believe God has endowed every human being with dignity and who own the call to love God fully and our neighbors as ourselves, have yet to voice adequate public responses to the dominionist streams of Christianity….”
Reposted by Heather Hartung
If you want to understand how we got here, you have to understand Christian Nationalism. It's the permission structure that justifies all of this harm and hate in the minds of so many Americans. Here's a reading list to get you started: bookshop.org/lists/unders...
February 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If you want to understand how we got here, you have to understand Christian Nationalism. It's the permission structure that justifies all of this harm and hate in the minds of so many Americans. Here's a reading list to get you started: bookshop.org/lists/unders...
"If we genuinely want a nation united across difference, one committed to liberty and justice for all, we need our histories to be messy, to contain light and dark and more often than not, muddled gray. We need our histories to reveal our blindspots..." kristindumez.substack.com/p/history-un...
History under siege
When it feels like the ground is shifting beneath our feet, we need to remember who we are and where we come from.
kristindumez.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"If we genuinely want a nation united across difference, one committed to liberty and justice for all, we need our histories to be messy, to contain light and dark and more often than not, muddled gray. We need our histories to reveal our blindspots..." kristindumez.substack.com/p/history-un...
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NEW: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton is releasing a video, saying the church remains “steadfast” in its work & accusing Musk/others of of spreading “misinformation” and “casting baseless doubt” about “funding that supports Lutheran (orgs) across our country.”
February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
NEW: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton is releasing a video, saying the church remains “steadfast” in its work & accusing Musk/others of of spreading “misinformation” and “casting baseless doubt” about “funding that supports Lutheran (orgs) across our country.”
"What Trump wants you to see in all this activity is command. What is really in all this activity is chaos...They have convinced themselves that speed and force is a strategy unto itself — that it is, in a sense, a replacement for a real strategy. Don’t believe them." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
February 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"What Trump wants you to see in all this activity is command. What is really in all this activity is chaos...They have convinced themselves that speed and force is a strategy unto itself — that it is, in a sense, a replacement for a real strategy. Don’t believe them." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
"...any I-told-you-so impulse in the face of human suffering — even suffering self-invited by miscalculation — is counterproductive. It’s also a distraction from the crucial task of coalescing around a defensive strategy..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...
Opinion | Stop Feeling Stunned and Wounded, Liberals. It’s Time to Fight Back.
Americans alarmed by President Trump’s agenda must reunite and recalibrate.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"...any I-told-you-so impulse in the face of human suffering — even suffering self-invited by miscalculation — is counterproductive. It’s also a distraction from the crucial task of coalescing around a defensive strategy..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...