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Religion and human rights researcher, focusing on migration, sovereignty, and religious liberty. Recent textbook, Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction. Currently working on theological & qualitative study of perceptions and receptions of migrants.

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I wrote about Christian ethical thought on responsibilities to different neighbors, and how treatment of migrants fits in that tradition. To be sure, Vance and Trump do not approach this issue with any kind of Christian principle. But the moral debate actual ethicists have is worth talking about.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Noting that Elon Musk attacked the Lutheran Church's work providing services, and that JD Vance attacked Catholic Bishops for their work with immigrants. Fair to say that this administration is one of the most hostile to religion and religious freedom that we have seen in recent memory.

submitted 22 days ago • 19 comments

The United States will need nearly 8 million new caregivers over the next decade, and rural economies, facing aging workforces and declining populations, have relied on migrant labor to fill such labor shortages.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I just received a stop-work order from HUD on the grant we won at Urban Institute to support our Housing Market Forecaster. This work is designed to identify land-use reform strategies that can assist cities in adding housing supply and improve housing affordability. www.urban.org/projects/hou...

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

I want to make this clear: diversity is extremely popular. THAT is what they’re furious about. They lost that battle in the culture and want to reverse it by force.

submitted 32 days ago • 38 comments

Okay I have to complain about this somewhere. I go in to do my annual review of my work, and the system my university uses (Watermark, for those who care) has started pulling articles it thinks might be mine and asking me to edit or reject them. NONE of them are mine./1

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Hee hee

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Immigrants are not economic burdens. The research is clear: immigrants play pivotal roles in driving innovation, enhancing productivity and fostering economic growth in their adopted countries #immigration

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

Trump has called for “mass deportations,” though the infrastructure to detain immigrants didn’t start with Trump. What questions do you have about the history of immigration detention in the U.S.? Let us know, and historian Brianna Nofil will answer: boltsmag.org/ask-bolts/

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Shout-out to #aarsbl friends and colleagues, you've made this a great conference. Lots of talk of building communities of mutual support. I hope we can carry the work forward!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Once again, this is unconstitutional, & also if it makes it into any classrooms I would love to see some malicious compliance where students learn the actual teachings of Jesus & the Bible about overturning social hierarchies, rich people giving their wealth to the poor, welcoming the stranger, etc

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

@jayirwin.bsky.social do you have insight on this? Btw you and Rebecca would get along, I think. Two good friends, both of whom I admire.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

PRRI finds that more than 7 in 10 Americans support various efforts to tell the truth about slavery and discrimination (90%), create more inclusive public spaces (79%), or repair past damage done by violence or discrimination (72%). Read more in @latimes.com. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

In his final hours, Keith Gavin’s request for a halal final meal was denied by Alabama prison officials. "I’m a Muslim, I’m supposed to be eating halal food,” he told Bolts shortly before his execution. “There’s nothing else to eat but junk food.” boltsmag.org/alabama-exec...

submitted 99 days ago • 10 comments

Well, duh, but notable nevertheless. So basically Trump is going to copy Obama on immigration. Which, to be clear, is still not good. "Criminal" covers a lot of things, many of which most Americans think are no big deal.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Most of my life is about theological ethics, but here in NE I've been involved in keeping public dollars in public schools and advocating for support for ALL students and education that's constitutionally appropriate. What's happening in OK would be funny if it weren't harming students.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

A judge has ruled that the Louisiana law mandating putting Ten Commandment in public school classrooms is unconstitutional. Of course this is true, but I also sometimes dream about the ways these sorts of laws enable malicious compliance.../1 apnews.com/article/ten-...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

First post! Wanted to say hi and that I'm very excited about my upcoming courses this spring. I don't think any of it will be easy, but I love hearing students' perspectives. Religion and Human Rights; War, Religion, and Human Rights; and an independent study with a student interested in theology.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment