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M.A., Religion & Theology. Ph.D. student at GTU Berkeley in Historical & Cultural Studies of Religion (Religion & Literature). Follow me for pantheistic heresies.
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These days I spend less time figuring out how the fullness of the godhead could co-exist within a trinitarian framework, and more time imagining how the fullness of the godhead could dwell within a single blade of grass.

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I did do that.

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Decent earthquake tonight, might cut all my hair off tomorrow.

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🥹🥹🥹

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So far my experience on dating apps this go around is that men on dating apps do not want relationships, they either want to hook up or they just want attention. Not a single one seems to want to know another person as a human being.

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No. 32: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman

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No. 31: “Shimmer: When All You Love is Being Trashed,” by Deborah Bird Rose, in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, & Nils Bubandt

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"Now is the time for progressive people of good faith in all traditions to speak clearly and to do, if needed, the kind of civil disobedience that will not succumb to what is clearly wrong."

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No. 30: “Good Without God: A How-To Guide to the Ethics of Humanism,” from Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, by Greg M. Epstein

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“Hospitality is the fundamental virtue of the soil. It makes room. It shares. It neutralizes poisons. And so it heals. This is what the soil teaches: If you want to be remembered, give yourself away.” -William Logan

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No. 29: “Experiencing Flow through an Integrative Pedagogy,” by Kirsten S. Oh

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No. 28: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (chapters 1-3), by Stephen D. Brookfield

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No. 27: “When Subjects Matter: The Bodies We Teach By,” by Mai-Ann Le Tran, in Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World, edited by Eleazar S. Fernandez

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No. 26: “Instructors,” from Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education: A Research-Based Pedagogical Guide for Faculty, by Kathryn C. Oleson

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No. 25: Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy: A Practical Guide for Educators, by Erlene Grise-Owen’s, J. Jay Miller, and Larry W. Owens

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No. 24: “A Social Scientist Tries to Explain Religious Disaffiliation,” from The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, by Ryan Burge

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No. 23: “Religiosity in America: Shock and Two Aftershocks,” in American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell

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No. 22: “The Making of a Quest Culture,” from Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion, by Wade Clark Roof

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No. 21: “Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur,” by Michel Foucault

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No. 20: “Useless to Revolt?” by Michel Foucault

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No. 19: “What is Critique?” by Michel Foucault

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Looking for bedtime reading recs. Yes: fic or non, regular chapter breaks, entertaining. Intended age of audience or date of pub irrelevant. No: horror/true crime/politics, boring, intellectually demanding, related to my work (these last two are for daytime reading).

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No. 18: Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence, by Paco Calvo

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No. 17: “Pedagogical Reflection: Demonstrating the Value of Introspection,” by Emily E. Virtue

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