Chris Jones
@profchrismjones.bsky.social
Topekan. Religion professor. Teacher. I study Hebrew Bible, pedagogy, and trauma.
The ability to detect fallacy is one of the things that makes democratic life decent.
-Martha Nussbaum
-Martha Nussbaum
August 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The ability to detect fallacy is one of the things that makes democratic life decent.
-Martha Nussbaum
-Martha Nussbaum
Work in progress on purity culture and religious trauma. Thoughts?
July 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Work in progress on purity culture and religious trauma. Thoughts?
It's hard to even begin to represent how pervasive trauma is among college students. Trauma isn't something we can "accommodate" for the students who "have" it. It needs to be part of how we approach the craft of teaching itself.
Reading @nbedera.bsky.social and feeling *heavy* this evening.
Reading @nbedera.bsky.social and feeling *heavy* this evening.
July 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It's hard to even begin to represent how pervasive trauma is among college students. Trauma isn't something we can "accommodate" for the students who "have" it. It needs to be part of how we approach the craft of teaching itself.
Reading @nbedera.bsky.social and feeling *heavy* this evening.
Reading @nbedera.bsky.social and feeling *heavy* this evening.
Chuck Schumer couldn't be more out of touch if he were an interdimentional phantom.
March 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Chuck Schumer couldn't be more out of touch if he were an interdimentional phantom.
Are you fucking kidding me
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February 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Are you fucking kidding me
We are once again a white ethnostate advancing the interests of white people throughout the world.
February 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We are once again a white ethnostate advancing the interests of white people throughout the world.
Batik says fucking bite them
January 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Batik says fucking bite them
What I actually said was "Candomblé" so PowerPoint subtitles have some work to do on religious diversity.
January 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What I actually said was "Candomblé" so PowerPoint subtitles have some work to do on religious diversity.
Why does the middle peninsula on Alaska's western coast look like Abe Simpson wresting his head on his hands?
January 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Why does the middle peninsula on Alaska's western coast look like Abe Simpson wresting his head on his hands?
This started as an article revision and quickly morphed into a manifesto. *sigh*
December 30, 2024 at 6:56 PM
This started as an article revision and quickly morphed into a manifesto. *sigh*
RIP Northrop Frye, you would have been simultaneously enthralled and repulsed by generative AI.
December 28, 2024 at 1:04 PM
RIP Northrop Frye, you would have been simultaneously enthralled and repulsed by generative AI.
Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?
December 28, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, now slouches toward Bethlehem to be born"
December 25, 2024 at 1:08 AM
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, now slouches toward Bethlehem to be born"
Anyway I'm finally digging into this fabulous volume, starting with @ktgerbs.bsky.social on the ways that colonial authorities redefined "religion" to crimimalize gatherings of Black people. There's an M Night Shyamalan-level twist in her conclusion.
December 24, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Anyway I'm finally digging into this fabulous volume, starting with @ktgerbs.bsky.social on the ways that colonial authorities redefined "religion" to crimimalize gatherings of Black people. There's an M Night Shyamalan-level twist in her conclusion.
I miss David Bowie so much
December 23, 2024 at 1:47 AM
I miss David Bowie so much
Hey NYT come get your boy Connections he's drunk
December 12, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Hey NYT come get your boy Connections he's drunk
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
December 12, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
FACT: your beer will be five degrees colder if you use a union koozie
December 8, 2024 at 12:51 AM
FACT: your beer will be five degrees colder if you use a union koozie
I attended initiation at a multicultural sorority on my campus tonight. Three of these students have been in my classes. That's it: that's the apex of my career. Everything else (the PhDing, the publishing, the politicking) is just so I can be part of this.
December 6, 2024 at 4:17 AM
I attended initiation at a multicultural sorority on my campus tonight. Three of these students have been in my classes. That's it: that's the apex of my career. Everything else (the PhDing, the publishing, the politicking) is just so I can be part of this.
I'm religious. I believe in the holy trinity.
November 30, 2024 at 2:24 PM
I'm religious. I believe in the holy trinity.
Now that Hal Lindsey has died, Jesus has an opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
November 27, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Now that Hal Lindsey has died, Jesus has an opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
The brilliant and charismatic @alexianafry.bsky.social presenting about the fawn response and the book of Esther.
November 24, 2024 at 10:26 PM
The brilliant and charismatic @alexianafry.bsky.social presenting about the fawn response and the book of Esther.
