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"God’s love has the first and the final word, and we are invited to be part of it in our time and place."
—Shannon Craigo-Snell ’95 M.Div., ’02 Ph.D. in her article in the new issue of Reflections https://reflections.yale.edu/article/c

This is how I fell in love with Bad Religion: #Blogging

How I Started Believing in Bad Religion
For almost a decade, after their song You, made me fall in love with punk rock, I hated the band called Bad Religion. And then they turned out to be one of my favorites ever.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

“Humans generally want to feel chosen and special, and some individuals will believe they are to an extraordinary degree.” —YDS Prof Yii-Jan Lin as quoted in Rolling Stone on A.I. and religious fervor. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts
People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.

Am 6. Juli wird der Dalai Lama 90 Jahre alt.
#DalaiLama
https://www.mdr.de/religion/faq-dalai-lama-tibet-buddhismus-100.html

FAQ: Dalai Lama - Leben, Werk, Buddhismus
Am 6. Juli wird der Dalai Lama 90 Jahre alt. Mit seinem unermüdlichen Einsatz für den Frieden und für Menschenrechte gehört der Führer des tibetischen Buddhismus zu den berühmtesten Persönlichkeiten der Zeitgeschichte.

Kommenden Dienstag 8.7.25, 19:30 Uhr, ist es so weit:
Michael Blume in der Manufaktur
Sturmflut der Lügen - Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation Wappnen
@…
#schorndorf

AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat,…

Stereotype Detection as a Catalyst for Enhanced Bias Detection: A Multi-Task Learning Approach
Aditya Tomar, Rudra Murthy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01715

Stereotype Detection as a Catalyst for Enhanced Bias Detection: A Multi-Task Learning Approach
Bias and stereotypes in language models can cause harm, especially in sensitive areas like content moderation and decision-making. This paper addresses bias and stereotype detection by exploring how jointly learning these tasks enhances model performance. We introduce StereoBias, a unique dataset labeled for bias and stereotype detection across five categories: religion, gender, socio-economic status, race, profession, and others, enabling a deeper study of their relationship. Our experiments c…

The Decline and Fall of Christianity in America (Daniel N. Gullotta/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/american-christianity-decline-christian-smith-sociology-evangelical-catholic-mainline-christian-smith-religion-obsolete-review
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p43#a250701p43

“I know faithful people, including faithful preachers, who persist in hope for the future, against all odds, grounded in their hope in God’s steadfastness. That hope emboldens them both to hear and preach the truth of God’s compassion and of God’s justice, and to act accordingly. Their hope emboldens me.”
—Roger Ferlo ’79 Ph.D. writing in the latest issue of our journal, Reflections

"Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction": how the cardinal points of the compass have changed our world view.
A journey through history, discovery, religion, maps and much more.
And how online maps and GPS are reducing its relevance.
By Jerry Brotton.
https://flic.kr/p/tAv8JZ

With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a humiliating federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process rather than increase government efficiency.
De-emphasizing degree requirements and banning DEI initiatives
—as well as any census tracking of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion to assess the composition of government
—the plan requires every new hire to submit essays explaining which e…

New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting
Trump will continuously monitor all federal workers for “trustworthiness.”…

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/28/call-for-papers-religion-and-ai-in-science-fiction-and-horror/

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.

I've got a new piece up at The Good Men Project: Where’s the Line Between Strongly-Held Religious Beliefs and Child Abuse? #religion #abuse

#theStateOfTheWorldInLyrics
Violence, Religion, Injustice and Death
https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/lyrics/paninaro

how might i get myself as the top result for athena or some shit

Yes, this!
The grooming gangs scandal is about class and gender, not religion and race | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/grooming-gangs-scandal-about-class-and-gender-not-religion-and-race…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 144 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Happy Pride Month from a straight ally!:QueerCatHeart_Pride:
:ablobpride1: :ablobpride2:
And for all eternity: Equal rights, respect and tolerance for everybody - regardless of sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, skin color, culture or religion!
♥️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💐
#Pride #PrideMonth

Is the theory here is that if you let a child know that a particular other kind of person exists, even if there is no overlap between what defines that kind of person and religion, even if that kind of person is statistically likely to be the same religion as the child, then somehow that teaches the child a different religion?!?!?

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

STIP: Forschungsstipendium ‚Kritik im Widerstreit‘, Halle (28.6.2025)
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Congratulations to YDS alum Toni Alimi '15 M.A.R. He has been appointed Assistant Professor in Religion at Princeton University! https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/05/29/board-approves-14-new-faculty-appointments

Board approves 14 new faculty appointments
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 14 faculty members, including one full professor and 13 assistant professors.

"I do not deny scientific medicine’s power—its tools have saved my life and improved my functioning as much as its knowledge allowed. However, faith gives me a way of seeing and understanding the body as God’s good creation and sustained by God’s spirit."
—Hospice chaplain Aaron Klink ’05 M.Div. in his article for the new issue of Reflections, titled "Meds, MRIs, Miracles: A Hospice Chaplain Rereads Genesis"

When you’re standing at the precipice of a cliff, progress is not defined by moving forward.
—Charles Kimball, When Religion Becomes Evil

Religion, PLpol
It's about time I elaborated on an earlier thought.
"Non-practicing Catholics" have more liberal worldview than "conservative" Catholics — and often they jeer at them. These qualities make it easy to forget that you're draining with Catholics. But when the push comes to shove, you discover that you can't rely on them. They won't openly oppose the Church, they won't protect the people who are "immoral" according to Catholic morality, and if they are forced to choose a side, they'll side with the Catholics.
The Polish PO/KO party (often perceived as "liberal") is just like that. Their views are more liberal than the conservative right wing, they love portraying themselves as an opposition to it, but in the end they are a right-wing party. When it's convenient to them, they happily present liberal postulates — but they are as fast to withdraw them to please their right-wing electorate.
#PLpol

This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, and became one of my favorite bands:
https://arnel.bearblog.dev/how-i-started-believing-in-bad-religion/

How I Started Believing in Bad Religion
For almost a decade, after their song You, made me fall in love with punk rock, I hated the band called Bad Religion. And then they turned out to be one of my favorites ever.

Louisiana.
Controversial Ten Commandments law for schools struck down in court - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/religion/

Supreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-lgbtq-books-religion-maryland-schools-c0b0fb4b96531636fcb98b08aabc3cf9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p147#a250627p147

Apologies for the rant about religion, just, I'm never going to not be mad and disappointed in the US and the foolish things people expected me to believe.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really
good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change
their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really
do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are
human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot
recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
-- C…

Extended Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology
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Extended Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology
ECCLESIOLOGY AND BASEBALL: Exploring the Church Through America’s Pastime Call For Papers Editors: Daniel J. Cameron, Ph.D. & Johanna DeHaven, M.A. “Baseball is just a game. But like religion, …

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

"Le bouddhisme est généralement associé Š la paix, Š la tolérance et Š la compassion. Mais comme toutes les autres grandes religions, il a un côté violent."
#religion #bouddhisme

Good to see at least someone's calling legislators out for their hypocrisy.
#Texas #religion #FirstAmendment

Texas Democrat exposes GOP hypocrisy in bill forcing Ten Commandments in classrooms
State Rep. James Talarico asked simple, effective questions to highlight how Republicans don't care about actually following the Commandments

I am extremely late to the conclave themed blog posting trend but here it is.
It's mostly a bunch of miscellaneous thoughts about how to be a bit less cliche about fantasy religions and also some specific things I've done, mostly with Cairn.
https://seedlinggames.com/blogging/w…

Aische war die erste Imanin einer neu gegründeten Religion namens Islam. Wesentlich bekannter ist allerdings ihr Ehepartner Mohammed, der häufig als Prophet bezeichnet wird.

Aische war die erste Imanin einer neu gegründeten Religion namens Islam. Wesentlich bekannter ist allerdings ihr Ehepartner Mohammed, der häufig als Prophet bezeichnet wird.

Extended Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/03/extended-call-for-papers-baseball-and-ecclesiology/

Extended Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology
ECCLESIOLOGY AND BASEBALL: Exploring the Church Through America’s Pastime Call For Papers Editors: Daniel J. Cameron, Ph.D. & Johanna DeHaven, M.A. “Baseball is just a game. But like religion, …

some chinese folk religion planchette writings say new hells (like with punishments for sins involving reckless driving) or existing hells (such as the "hand-searing hell" (烙手指小地獄) initially used clothes irons to sear sinners' hands, but now modernized their punishment by searing the sinners' hands on iron rails tied with springs) are created as the world changes

“If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it... The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
He was a kook. Good reading, tho. Sometimes.
#Philosophy #Religion …

"We are building a religion
We are building it bigger
We are widening the corridors
And adding more lanes
We are building a religion
A limited edition
We are now accepting callers
For these pendant key chains"

Wie lang bis “Discover Religion(s)”? Schon das MPDI-Journal “Religions” war ja ein unverfrorener Rip-Off des tatsächlich renommierten Journals “Religion”. via @…
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Lambert Heller (@Lambo@openbiblio.social)
Attached: 1 image "Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a MDPI trademark (“Foods”, “Plants”). In the spirit of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the “Discover” series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants). (...) You can try it yourself in our “Guess Who Is Who” mini-game (...) Why? How? And let’s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? It’s certainly not the author…

"I never imagined that I would become unchurched. Yet being unchurched, I am discovering that whenever we intentionally put a few chairs and a table together to have a meal, we are manifesting a new—or perhaps ancient—way of doing church in our time."
—Vincent Wei-Cheng Lin ’24 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which addresses whether Christianity is losing its religion.

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
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Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

Sturmflut der Lügen – Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation wappnen
Vortrag mit
Michael Blume @…
8.7.2025, 19:30 Uhr
Manufaktur Schorndorf
#Schorndorf

This is me (playing bass) with my first band ever called Rapa Nui. This was officially our first gig, although the first one happened a few months before this one, in Sarajevo, in front of the then-demolished Youth House.
Back then, I hated melodic punk, feeling the buzz from bands like Motorhead and different extreme metal and grindcore artists.
However, in 2016, I rediscovered an old favorite.
This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, an…

How I Started Believing in Bad Religion
For almost a decade, after their song You, made me fall in love with punk rock, I hated the band called Bad Religion. And then they turned out to be one of my favorites ever.

Who would have guessed that so many people in Northern Ireland, who traditionally are very Christian (of two slightly different variants of that religion), would turn out to be violent xenophobes and racists? Shocked, I am shocked.

"When are we preachers going to stop apologizing for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ? It’s my belief that bolder and truer messaging will draw people back to the congregations from which they have fled in droves over the last decades."
—Will Mebane ’06 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our Reflections journal, focused on: Is Christianity losing its religion?

"Your school, like your country, is made up of Americans of many different races, religions & national origins.
So if you hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin, don't wait: Tell him that
THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN."
- #Superman

"Out of pain and righteous anger I took apart the stained glass windows of my childhood faith. Over time I looked more closely at the glass shards at my feet and chose to reconstruct my faith life."
—Sandra L. Fischer ’12 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections, which addresses whether Christianity is losing its religion.

You know, there are a lot of people of Jewish religion or descent among those in LA being assaulted by DHS/ICE/LAPD.
Since, apparently, any act that is in opposition to Jews is now full, irrefutable, and instant proof of antisemitism I believe we have clear proof that FFOTUS and gang are actively and overtly antisemitic and deserving of instant deportation.

Doublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist

Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech.
Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Extended Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology
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ECCLESIOLOGY AND BASEBALL: Exploring the Church Through America’s Pastime Call For Papers Editors:…
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Extended Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology
ECCLESIOLOGY AND BASEBALL: Exploring the Church Through America’s Pastime Call For Papers Editors: Daniel J. Cameron, Ph.D. & Johanna DeHaven, M.A. “Baseball is just a game. But like religion, …

"Ex-hitmen make excellent ushers."
—Andrew McMillan ’80 M.Div. writing in Reflections about experiences and lessons from his decades of ministry and church-planting, mostly in Colombia https://reflections.yale.edu/article/c

"How do I reclaim my evangelical identity? By embracing the inclusive nature of God’s love."
—The Rev. Craig Robinson ’11 M.Div., ’14 S.T.M., writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections https://reflections.yale.edu/article/c

Religion should not dictate secular law.
Southern Baptists Call to Overturn Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/southern-baptist-obergefell-same-sex-marriage.html

San Antonio Express-News calling out the Texas legislature. I think they're right on target, too. #Texas #FirstAmendment #religion
"Ten Commandments bill makes hypocritical mockery of…

Call for Papers: Religious Emergence and The Sacred in Legends of Zelda
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Call for Papers: Religious Emergence and The Sacred in Legends of Zelda
Volume Editor: Michael Barros This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential …

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 91 edges.
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You know, it's funny. I just read about someone in DC saying we had too many federal holidays. I know she's going for a state declaration, not a federal holiday. I just think the timing is amusing. #Pennsylvania
h…

Pennsylvania lawmaker pushes "Day of the Bible" resolution based on historical myth
From pushing religion in schools to denying climate change, Rep. Stephanie Borowicz is on a holy mission—truth be damned

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Video Games https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/15/call-for-papers-theology-religion-and-video-games/

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Video Games
CFP: Theology, Religion and Video Games Volume Editor: Trevor B. Williams Abstract + CV due: Oct 1, 2025 Video games have become a formative aspect of popular culture because they provide special o…

Woman in a construction company wants to wear a skirt over her work pants, which doesn't sound very safe.
Religion Clause: EEOC Sues Over Denial of Dress Code Religious Accommodation for Apostolic Christian Employee
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/06/eeoc-sues-over-denial-of-dress-code.html

CFP> Special Issue on The Economics of Buddhism and Jainism: Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion (JEMAR)
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In Greek and Roman society, people questioned whether the gods could be trusted. “But Judaism affirms—and Christianity inherits this and adds to it—that God is trustworthy.”
—YDS New Testament Professor Teresa Morgan speaking on the latest episode of the YDS "Quadcast," focused on Christianity’s early spread among the Greeks and Romans.

The Spread of Christianity in the Greek and Roman Empires with Professor Teresa Morgan
Podcast Episode · Yale Religion · 05/06/2025 · 20m

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Did Pope Francis bring about any lasting change to the Church?
https://ffrf.org/news/releases/pope-francis-death-leaves-a-legacy-of-unanswered-abuse-and-religious-oppression/

Pope Francis’ death leaves a legacy of unanswered abuse and religious oppression
The Freedom From Religion Foundation acknowledges the death of Pope Francis, a leader revered by many but whose tenure failed to bring meaningful change to a deeply flawed institution. 

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth #acrel https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/11/call-for-papers-theology-religion-and-m…

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson, Ph.D. Few works have made such a lasting impact on the fantasy genre or captured the imagination a…

"So often in the study of religion, we rely on published literary materials. This class is really intended to help students—and to help myself—think about the full social, economic, and political life into which what we call religion emerges. Religion is never absent from those very concrete connections.”
—YDS Prof Nasrallah on the travel seminar to Greece and Türkiye for her course

"We reach out, arms in exasperation, in tired anxiety, in worry, in unknowing—and God hands us back a feast. God plants flowers in our open palms."
—Caroline Blosser ’24 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"

Extended Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology
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Extended Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology
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"Many Christians can’t identify with the word Christian anymore. No wonder the New Testament mentions 'Christian' just three times, as if reluctant to endorse a term that would become so easily exploited or distorted."
—Reflections editor Ray Waddle on the question "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"

#CFP: Theology, Religion, and *Mad Max*: Rising from the Ashes
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(RNS) — ‘Faith leaders have been at the forefront of every progressive movement in our nation’s history … so I’m glad to see faith leaders speaking out and getting into good trouble in opposition to the upcoming reconciliation bill,’ Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told RNS.
https:…

To put pressure on Trump, Democrats turn to religion — and religious activists
(RNS) — ‘Faith leaders have been at the forefront of every progressive movement in our nation’s history … so I’m glad to see faith leaders speaking out and getting into good trouble in opposition to the upcoming reconciliation bill,’ Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told RNS.

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Video Games
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Call for Papers: Religious Emergence and The Sacred in Legends of Zelda https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/28/call-for-papers-religious-emergence-and-the-sacred-in-legends-of-zelda/

Call for Papers: Religious Emergence and The Sacred in Legends of Zelda
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"I am an embodiment journeying towards belief. Faith seeking greater confidence. That is what being a Christian means to me. It may well be the work of a lifetime."
—Ian Barclay ’24 M.A.R. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections https://…

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"Let’s extend to ourselves and to others the invitation of a Christianity that seeks light, rests in darkness, remains deeply rooted in justice, and flourishes in our own individual ways of nurturing it." —Karis Slattery '20 M.Div. in her new Reflections piece, "Don’t Water Fake Plants"

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Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson, Ph.D. Few works have made such a lasting impact on the fantasy genre or captured the imagination a…

KONF: Generische Sakralität. Religiöse Formate im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Bern (26.06. – 28.06.2025)
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CFP> Special Issue on The Economics of Buddhism and Jainism: Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion (JEMAR)
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CFP> Special Issue on The Economics of Buddhism and Jainism: Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion (JEMAR) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070691/special-issue-economics-buddhism-and-jainism-journal…

Is Christianity losing its religion? In the new issue of Reflections, YDS-related scholars and ministers take up this question and declare their own reasons for Christian faith. https://reflections.yale.edu/

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#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
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#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
Laurent Pernot wrote, “Religion is intimately linked with words. Everyone knows that the spoken and written word plays an essential role in religion, as language is necessarily used to address the gods or God, to speak about the divine or the sacred, and to express religious feeling or awareness”. Thus, Pernot called for an understanding of the role rhetoric plays in our expression and performance of religion.

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Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and ‘willful childlessness’
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Southern Baptists to meet in Dallas for annual evangelical gathering
Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage. The proposed resolutions call for laws on gender, marriage and family based on what they say is biblical teaching. They also call for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing. Delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant de…

Extended Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Taylor Swift
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Extended Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Taylor Swift
Call for Papers: Theology, Religion and Taylor Swift Edited by: Alexis Bradford and Chris Swann Taylor Swift is a cultural icon. As such, she is often used as a case study and her success has been …

Final Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max
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Final Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max
Call for contributions Title:  Theology, Religion, and Mad Max: Rising from the Ashes Edited by: Yael Thomas Cameron, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Vernon W. Cisney, Get…

"This so-called big, beautiful bill pushes 16 million people off of health care and literally takes food from the mouths of hungry children. An enormous tax cut for the very wealthiest is the definition of an immoral bill," said Sen. Coons, a Presbyterian and graduate of Yale Divinity School.

Episcopalians join other faith leaders, lawmakers, in DC rally against budget bill
[Religion News Service – Washington] Religious leaders are ramping up pressure on lawmakers to reject the Republican-led budget bill currently before the U.S. Senate, arguing proposed cuts to healt…

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“Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion” A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Orion Klautau, Tohoku University https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070533/another-shotoku-history-and-mythmaking…

ONLINE TALK> “Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion” A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Orion Klautau, Tohoku University #acrel https://