Thomas Hampton

A dense but great book that feels appropriate to share on this app. I wrote a longer review for @ReadingReligion linked in a reply.

@EdwardVersaii Besides yourself of course

@EdwardVersaii What groups/publications/people make good Christian music playlists these days?

spotify got rid of most of its playlisting team, and now the christian playlists are completely outdated and useless

I am grateful to @ChurchLifeND for publishing an excerpt from Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction, which I co-authored with Ethan Stoneman and @profrobwyllie, now out from @politybooks. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-a…

The Nicaraguan government canceled the legal status of 1,500 nonprofit organizations — many of them evangelical religious groups — in the authoritarian government’s continued effort to quash people and institutions that are not allied with the government. nyti.ms/3WVeZO2

My review of @kvallier’s *All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism* has been published in Reading Religion readingreligion.org/9780197611371/…

Visit the @UNICEF and @ITU #GIGA interactive website with global school connectivity! 1⃣2.1M schools mapped across 142 countries 2⃣400K schools with connectivity status mapped across 50 countries 3⃣90.3K schools with real-time data mapped across 28 countries maps.giga.global/map

@EdwardVersaii Like Ivan Illich?

we should make an anti-intellectualism that’s woke

Energy consumption across the globe . . . from an incredible Bloomberg photo essay on data centers and their insatiable energy demands. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Hot off the presses at Chaos - "Evolving higher-order synergies reveals a trade-off between stability and information-integration capacity in complex systems" w/ @DoctorJosh 1/n pubs.aip.org/aip/cha/articl…

Old maps of Wilmore, Kentucky: 1905, 1952, and 1979

New book released! My contributions address world Christianity & poverty and transnational religion & poverty. It was a pleasure to be part of this team of authors.

Book link: nyupress.org/9781479814145/…

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Reading @sayburgin's "Organizing Your Own", with personal interest in Rev Douglass Fitch, one of Asbury Seminary's first Black students (page 121):

Compassion’s model of holistic child development accounts for the unique needs and context of every child. So how does creation care and environmental stewardship impact a child's development? Click each image to learn more!

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