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David W. Congdon

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Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas | Lecturer, KU | Who Is a New Christian? (Cambridge, 2024) | Bylines: Christian Century, Sojourners, Presby Outlook, Revealer

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 12d

I have a new article out in @christiancentury.bsky.social responding to Trump and Dolan's comments about Charlie Kirk being a missionary. I argue they were right—and this tells us something important about the legacy of Christian mission.

Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 12d

“Cardinal Dolan and President Trump are right about this. Kirk was indeed a missionary—and that’s precisely the problem.”

– @dwcongdon.com

www.christiancentury.org/features/yes...

Yes, Charlie Kirk was a missionary

Trump is right about this—but not for the reasons he...

www.christiancentury.org

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 3h

*Almost* enough to make me swim the Tiber.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 4h

Great observation here, and excellent thread.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 5h

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 5h

I love my home city.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 6h

IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO ANYTHING TODAY it should be the supreme court. they're hearing a case today that will decide if they *gut the federal law that blocks racial discrimination in voting.* i know that doesn't sound like real life but it is.

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 17h

Who will write a book for me on federalism in the age of Trump?

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 17h

I often think about how Trump 1.0 was all about isolationism, hence Greg Grandin’s “end of the myth” of the frontier. The myth is over because there’s nothing left to conquer.

But Trump 2.0 could be called the “rebirth of the myth.” By framing cities as a false America, Trump has a new frontier.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 20h

I keep wondering how long it is before the attacks on free speech hit university presses.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 1d

Wow, I had no idea he had cancer. What a loss. RIP to a legend.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

RIP D'Angelo

I think about this 2012 GQ profile of him a lot

The Return of D'Angelo - GQ June 2012 Profile

He was once hailed as the next Marvin Gaye. Then, after his ripped body threatened to overshadow his music, he vanished into addiction. So what the hell was he doing recently singing his heart out in ...

www.gq.com

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Hugo Méndez @hugomendez.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in Religion and Science, consider becoming my colleague! (Applications due by November 13.)

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

The Department of Religious Studies is recruiting for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Religion and Science. Candidates should have broad training in their field of expertise, a commitment to int...

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 1d

“We’re saving God” is quite a claim.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg reports this compact is being extended now to all colleges, and the first threat is withholding student loans. Multiple points clearly result in desegregating higher ed. I’ll underscore again that it bans professors from talking about “societal or political events”

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 1d

My kind of petty.

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 1d

Scammers on Tinder are now using AI images of women that I can tell are fake because of the shelf of 1000-page Penguin Classics in the background. Anyone with paperbacks this large would have obvious spine creases. If they don’t have creases, you know they’re monsters.

Tinder screenshot of an AI woman named “Mert”

Close-up of the screenshot on the Penguin Classics on the bookshelf in the background

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 1d

UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social

Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879

The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position specializing in the sociology of religion. We are particularly interested in a theoretically engaged scholar whose work addresses religious pluralism in complex modern societies, the relationship between religion, civic engagement, and democratic political cultures, the social and economic impact of religion from a cultural and historical perspective. Relevant questions may include but are not limited to: how does religion shape cultural and political conflicts? How does religion relate not only to political participation but to the shaping of collectives? How do different understandings of the sacred inform the development of, and dispute over, morality?

For additional information about our dynamic department, please visit https://sociology.as.virginia.edu/. For questions regarding this position, please contact Isaac Reed, Search Chair, at iar2c@virginia.edu.

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 2d

A liturgy for the masses.

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 2d

Can’t wait to see Sentinel publish a defense of monarchy on the 250th anniversary of the USA.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 2d

Of all the directions CT could have gone, they chose the worst one. They could have course corrected after Galli, but they went further right instead.
www.christianitytoday.com/news-release...

Marvin Olasky Officially Named Editor in Chief - Christianity Today

Russell Moore becomes editor at-large and columnist.

www.christianitytoday.com

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 2d

Not sure which terrifies me more—a Trump who is nihilistically resigned to damnation or a Vance or Hegseth who see themselves as God’s chosen ambassadors to redeem the world.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 3d

I’ve lived most of my life in Portland and Chicago, and this is completely accurate.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 3d

Hilarious and terrifying. Sums up the world in which we live.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 24d

This is absolutely fucking hilarious and pants shittingly terrifying in equal measure.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 5d

This is awesome.

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