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No. 45: Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, by Stacy Alaimo

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Started lesson planning today for this fall’s American Pantheisms seminar; delighted to report the students will be getting a little Robinson Jeffers, as a treat, as well as a friend’s very Bread and Puppets-esque take on Canticle for Brother Sun, right off the bat on week one.

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No. 44: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay, by Octavia E. Butler

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This girl just left her Oakland daycare for the last time & her people came out to give her scritchies & cuddles - & the gorgeous lady who occasionally compliments my looks gave me a hug goodbye too. Had to do that right after my move out walk through. One of those days when I wish I could get high.

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whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Sorry for the Xpost; I got an ICE alert for my neighborhood today and later saw this. Telling ICE and not immigrants to “go home!” is where it’s at, Minneapolis. Keep it up! Immigrants ARE home. x.com/taylr/status...

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I woke @ 4a, my movers came @ shortly after 8, they left shortly after 9p, I didn’t get to my hotel til ~10p, & I’m wired bc I spent all day perched on a shut toilet spinning thru socials w nowhere else to sit. My body hurts, they left a mess & items I don’t know how to pack in my car, & not done.

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Someone stole the LWW of the box set of this one from me in 7th grade and when I was in college a bookseller tracked it down for me. I love booksellers. And I love this set.

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Fun fact: the word “heresy” comes from the Greek hairesis, which means “choice.” So in a way, unless you somehow subscribe to a belief against your will, we’re all heretics.

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I’m so fascinated by the people who choose to follow me here. Hi! …Why?

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No. 43: The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, by Galen Watts

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No. 42: The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, by Joseph Blankholm

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No. 41: The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture, by Jerome P. Baggett

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I have a lot of random new followers, so hi, my name is Meg.

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“God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water. The fire next time.”

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Re the Episcopal Church’s withdrawal from the federal refugee resettlement program as most refugees have been turned away while white Afrikaners have been fast-tracked, the Anglican Archbishop of Capetown, Thabo Makgoba, has just sent a thank you note to Episcopal Presiding Bishop Rowe ⚓️

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I’m coming to the chilling conclusion that it has cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars to realize … my brain and my body aren’t two separate things and that means big things for morals and ethics, and wow that makes me want to hug a tree and eradicate cop culture. That could have been cheaper.

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youtu.be/y2laTnoo_AU this is my best friend. Please watch her featured Ted talk. She will bust your heart wide open.

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Still moderate, the radical position is Nuremberg and we abolish the border Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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“Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!” -John Brown, Abolitionist (Born on this day in 1800)

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Tfw you should probably start a weird podcast where you pose as siblings who all debate theology in a sitcom-like setting. Or something?

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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.