This blog post is thanks in large part to conversations with my colleague, Nicole Stevens, as well as conversations which took place in my Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Contexts course. In case you haven’t been following it in the news, this week the contentious murder trial of Derek Chauvin,…
When I first moved from New Jersey to Alabama to begin the Master’s program in Religion in Culture at UA, my department chair, Russell McCutcheon, sent me a few YouTube videos to help me acclimate to the culture of the new city I would call home for two years. Coming…
Given the explosive popularity of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit Hamilton, it appears that the United States has recently been preoccupied with questions regarding the history of its citizens of African heritage and the slave trade which brought so many of them to American soil. One of my favorite songs on the Hamilton soundtrack is “Cabinet…
“Hey, how was your weekend?” It’s a question we hear all the time, one which we don’t put much thought into. After all, we spend a good portion of our lives telling stories. Storytelling, however, is a social tool we use to exchange information, and like any skill, it needs…
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