I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~attributed to Etienne de Grellet~
It's the first day of finals week, which means I am getting roughly 6 emails per second from students who have just realized that they missed some key piece of information that I have shared with them no fewer than 9 times: in the syllabus, on the quiz over the syllabus, in the video of... Continue Reading →
Whether you are already a fantastic, productive writer who can’t wait to get to your manuscript each day or you are stuck or struggling with half-done manuscripts, a backlog of pieces in your “to-revise” pile, and a feeling of dread when you open your computer each day, you are invited to join the monthly AGT... Continue Reading →
Some students at the University of Limerick have been kindly engaging God Hates this semester and have asked a number of great questions about research ethics with a hate group. I answer them in a Q & A format below. How do you gain access to a hate group? It really depends on the group, so the... Continue Reading →
I just had the pleasure of reading Jennifer Johnson's Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll's Evangelical Empire for Reading Religion, an online book review endeavor from the American Academy of Religion. You can read the review here.
I'm pleased to share the news that Humanity & Society has just published my article "A King Cyrus President: How Donald Trump’s Presidency Reasserts Conservative Christians’ Right to Hegemony." Here is the abstract: Religious right leaders and voters in the United States supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election for the same reason that all blocs... Continue Reading →
America has seen multiple wars in defense of white supremacy, from our bloodiest conflicts (Metacom's War, the Civil War) to our longest lasting ones (the Apache Wars) to our most far-flung ones (the "Filipino Insurrection," which is to say that the people of the Philippines did not prefer to be colonized by the US and... Continue Reading →
The ADL is doing a training on Sept 12 at USC to help campuses address hate crimes. I'd love to hear from people who are able to attend. And if you want to support this project but can't go, consider a donation to the ADL to support this important work. Above, white supremacists meet... Continue Reading →
I recently got to review Antony Alumkal's Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality for Contemporary Sociology. In this book, Alumkal, a professor of the sociology of religion at Iliff School of Theology, identifies patterns of paranoid thinking in conservative Christians’ engagement with four issues: evolution, LGBTQ+ rights, bioethics, and climate change. Readers interested in any of... Continue Reading →
AGT Monthly Writing Challenge Whether you are already a fantastic, productive writer who can’t wait to get to your manuscript each day or you are stuck or struggling with half-done manuscripts, a backlog of pieces in your “to-revise” pile, and a feeling of dread when you open your computer each day, you are invited to... Continue Reading →
Right now, you're high on the smell of new Expo markers and feeling hopeful that your new planner is going to bring a level of peace and productivity that you've never experienced. Your students, with fresh haircuts and a commitment to making all their 8 am classes, are feeling the same. How can you make... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Barrett-Fox 