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Gerardo Martí
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William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D .. more

Political science 39%
Sociology 33%
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A BEST BOOK OF 2025

"Brimming with constructive criticism couched in a sympathetic depiction of its subject, this book is a showcase in producing outstanding and compelling biography that represents wider narratives and trends in history."

🎉🎉 Very happy to celebrate our new biography 🎉🎉
The Church Must Grow or Perish is Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Anxious Bench
Historian Joey Cochran writes, "Mulder and Marti’s The Church Must Grow or Perish, a biography of Robert Schuller, is a must-read showcase on the artform of producing stellar religious biography"
gerardomarti.substack.com

From current field notes:

A man extinguishes his cigarette to participate in communion... he holds the cigarette in the same hand as his communion elements.

Christmas returns 🎁 📦 🎁

Ack -- I respect the Bible too much to describe this student essay as "Bible-based"
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 20h
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
CNN @cnn.com · 20h
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it

Picture of event found @ Waco Herald-Tribune wacotrib.com/news/local/a...

Reading field notes for new project:

"Jesus climbs on the back of a black & red Harley Davidson. The bearded driver walks the bike along the path. People lay down the palm branches before them. The singing continues. At the end of the block, the motorcycle circles & returns in the other direction."

NPR

Over 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status in the first 11 months of President Trump’s presidency.

Number includes people accepted to come to the country on a wide variety of immigration parole, visa, asylum, and temporary protected status programs.
Immigrants now have fewer legal options to stay in U.S. under Trump — NPR
The 1.6 million number marks the largest-ever effort to strip permissions for immigrants who attempted to migrate to the country through legal means, advocates said.
apple.news
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Part of my reading today

Detailed and explosive, an amazing compilation of historical detail that enlightens much of our early 21st Century politics

Published by Princeton University Press

Clear, surprisingly comprehensive, and really well written

From Princeton University Press

😝

Great discussion with historian Rusty Hawkins, author of The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy

How white Southern churches declared school integration “defied God’s design.” Decades later, many of those congregations champion “color-blindness” instead.
Rusty Hawkins on Why ‘Color-Blind’ Christianity Still Harms Racial Justice
Podcast Episode · Faithful Politics · 07/15/2025 · 1h 5m
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Part of my reading today

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Arguing conspiracy “isn’t a bug but a feature” of American evangelicalism,new book examines long history of conspiracy theorizing, including Great Awakening George Whitfield’s paranoid fear of slave uprisings & Billy Graham’s conversation with Nixon on Jewish people supposedly controlling the media👇
Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis by Jared Stacy Phd
The impassioned debut study from theologian Stacy explores white American evangelicals’ dangerous devotion to conspiracy theoriz...
www.publishersweekly.com

Vandals decapitated & smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s ICE raid themed Nativity scene.

The church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.

👉 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

Not enough attention for this well-made, enjoyable film.
Mr. Burton | Rotten Tomatoes
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Reposted by Anne Norton

Hero
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Reposted by Gerardo Martí

This is one of those things like "You used to not be able to see two feet in front of your face on a sunny day in London" that no one who didn't experience it will ever be able to fully comprehend. Diners used to have smoking and non-smoking patrons seated directly next to each other.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted

THE THREE ICE MEN

We followed the star—right to your unauthorized encampment.

No room at the inn, and no room in the country.

What Child Is This? I’m gonna need to see the birth certificate for the kid.

We intercepted three guys on camels & shepherds are already in a detention center in El Paso.

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Here we are. Even our critics affirm every argument we ever made about Christian nationalism. We said it was powerfully linked with racist, sexist, & anti-democratic views. Evangelicals can't deny that anymore. They just disagree on whether that's good or not.
www.christianpost.com/voices/the-r...
The rise and fall of Christian nationalism
How did Christian nationalism go from an ambiguous pejorative invoked primarily by progressives, to a small but growing movement among Reformed Evangelicals
www.christianpost.com

Reposted by Gerardo Martí

Here we are. Even our critics affirm every argument we ever made about Christian nationalism. We said it was powerfully linked with racist, sexist, & anti-democratic views. Evangelicals can't deny that anymore. They just disagree on whether that's good or not.
www.christianpost.com/voices/the-r...
The rise and fall of Christian nationalism
How did Christian nationalism go from an ambiguous pejorative invoked primarily by progressives, to a small but growing movement among Reformed Evangelicals
www.christianpost.com

Happy to share receipt of a $2 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc to continue our work thru 2030. $1 million comes in matching funds — the whole supports initiatives to encourage and expand efforts for racial justice across churches in US & Canada with colleagues Mark Mulder & Kevin Dougherty.

Missiongathering church in Charlotte features ICE reaching out to the Holy Family

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Apparently he asked to sit up front.
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez