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the latest from RD: @jacobjerickson.bsky.social on Leo's first encyclical
"Ecologies of communication take integral systems into account, reflecting on power and paying attention to the material ecological impact of technology on lives seriously."
religiondispatches.org/2026/06/02/e...
absolutely love this piece @jacobjerickson.bsky.social wrote for @religiondispatches.org
"Our technological and algorithmic aspirations are building projects... Their impacts scrape the earth just as much as their algorithms scrape data."
religiondispatches.org/2026/06/02/e...
the latest from RD: @tlecaque.bsky.social on the poignant irony of the DOD erasing the Founding Fathers' faiths from their list of officially recognized religions
religiondispatches.org/2026/06/08/f...
"There is no attempt at intellectual consistency or historical accuracy. It’s just power. It’s just fascism. The Christian nationalism here isn’t about returning to anything. The mythical age it hearkens back to is a white supremacist myth."
still not over this
religiondispatches.org/2016/06/13/s...
"Hegseth and his ilk want to impose their own vision of Christianity and American history on all of us. Actual American history is irrelevant and inconvenient."
Happy Friday, I have a follow up on Hegseth's religious affiliation code changes--because the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints someday needs to deal with the fact that the MAGA evangelicals hate them. Up today @religiondispatches.org !
religiondispatches.org/2026/06/12/p...
I wrote a piece on Hegseth's religious code changes and the specific absurdity of removing the religions of some of our better known Founding Fathers. Up this afternoon @religiondispatches.org with my deepest thanks to @mpgphd.bsky.social for her edits & image.
religiondispatches.org/2026/06/08/f...
Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura d...
religiondispatches.org
Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura d...
grateful to @tlecaque.bsky.social both for his much needed insight and his willingness to let me get
uh
creative
with the feature image here
anyway here's the DOD calling the Founding Fathers' faiths fake news
religiondispatches.org/2026/06/08/f...
"oh actually Ben Franklin needs a bigger clown nose" is a thing I realized in a professional capacity today
in unrelated news dyk I went to school almost non-stop from ages 5 through 35
