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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 23, 2026

Invisible Hands, Visible Networks: An Digital Humanities Student Blog Roundup

A roundup of what my HT 930 Digital Humanities students at United Lutheran Seminary are publishing this fall: the collaborative Public Theology site and their Humanities Commons portfolios on invisible labor, accessibility, and network analysis.

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soulcruzerOct 23, 2026

Here is the thing about the “do the …

Here is the thing about the “do the inner work” culture: it gets the location right and the method wrong. Yes, the work is about what is happening inside you. The patterns, the stories, the beliefs running underneath your decisions. All of that is real and it matters. But the inner world is not a...

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soulcruzerOct 22, 2026

I pinched a sentence from Francesca Ferrando’s The …

I pinched a sentence from Francesca Ferrando’s The Art of Being Posthuman: Life is a journey, and we are the wanderers: anything can happen, and eventually does. I like the mischief in that last clause. You think you’ve seen everything? Just you wait. But it’s the word wanderers that keeps me here. I can travel...

Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 22, 2026

The internet used to be a library and now it's a store.

I've traded thinking for quick dopamine fixes. Now I'm returning to the library: digital commons, slow reading, open tabs, and fewer cooking videos.

Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 22, 2026

It All Begins with the Stick

A Weekend of lacrosse, memory and responsibility at Onondaga Lake for the Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Festival.

Public TheologyOct 19, 2026

Between the parade and the temple

Change happens to people without their partnership. Transition is something people build together. Most churches right now are living through change.

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Scott SpenceOct 18, 2026

Coolify Dashboard Broken After Upgrade? Purge Two Files in Cloudflare

I’ve upgraded Coolify twice this week, on two different servers, and both times the dashboard was unusable afterwards. The fix both times was purging two JavaScript files from the Cloudflare cache. This is a note for future me, and for anyone else...

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soulcruzerOct 17, 2026

The question of whether AI has feelings is …

The question of whether AI has feelings is fascinating, but I wonder whether we’re rushing towards the wrong question. Before we can determine whether a machine is conscious, we ought to acknowledge how little we understand about consciousness itself. We have an intimate, first-person experience of being conscious, yet we still struggle to explain precisely...

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 6, 2026

Which Passport Do You Travel Under?: Toward a Borderless Public Theology

Revisiting my 2013 WCC Busan paper, I argue public theology must refuse the nation-state as its frame and build solidarity from difference, not unity.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 6, 2026

Professors Without Passports: A Cosmopolitan Public Theological Pedagogy

If public theology is cosmopolitan, so must be the classroom where it is taught. Kang, Appiah, and Derrida on a pedagogy of dis-location.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 6, 2026

Theologians Without Passports: Towards a Cosmopolitan Public Theology

Namsoon Kang's cosmopolitan theology, read with Appiah and Derrida, as a public theology that crosses borders without erasing them.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 6, 2026

Whose Public? Which Theology?: On What We Mean by Public Theology

What public theology is, why it matters now, and why publictheology.com and journal.publictheology.com hold space for a digital public sphere.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 5, 2026

Welcome to Public Theology

A new home for public theology, public witness and shared resources.

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soulcruzerOct 2, 2026

What Happens When Your Notes Talk Back?

I returned to Sönke Ahrens’s How to Take Smart Notes with a different question from the one I brought to it the first time. The Textual Underground already existed: an Obsidian vault containing years of notes, journal entries, reading highlights, unfinished essays, old obsessions, and ideas whose energy I could still feel even though I...

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soulcruzerSep 30, 2026

Writing is how I do philosophy. I went …

Writing is how I do philosophy. I went into Waterstones on Gower st in London intending to find a book about writing. The shop itself was superb—the kind of place a bookshop should be—and I wandered through the writing shelves waiting for something to reach out and demand a place in my collection. A few...

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Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

The Postmodern Terminal: An Experiment with Gemini

I started a Gemini capsule for short posts on theory and method. Here is what Gemini is, why I tried it, and how I publish to it.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

This Week: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare

JCRT’s online conference with the University of Denver runs October 1–3, and registration is still open.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

TIDEL Is This Week

The TIDEL Summit and Showcase is October 1–2 in New York, and I’m co-leading the Racial Justice in the Digital Public Square track on Thursday afternoon.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

New Essay: Theorizing the Human Sciences in the Age of Absolute Disruption

My long essay on Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm’s trilogy is out at JCRT’s Religious Theory.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

New Essay: Theorizing the Human Sciences in the Age of Absolute Disruption

My long essay on Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm’s trilogy is out at JCRT’s Religious Theory.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

New Publication: Sacralizing Dominion

Betty Hill (Lyons) and I have a new open access article in Religions on the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and white Christian nationalism.

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soulcruzerSep 28, 2026

An old magazine ad from Orbis caught my …

An old magazine ad from Orbis caught my attention. To see differently you have to think differently, the ad reads. I wondered what it would look like to reverse it, to change the perspective: to think differently you have to see differently. Reversing it shifts the site of change. The original phrase assumes thought goes...

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Scott Spence

Scott SpenceSep 26, 2026

What Happened to My Coding Agent Guardrails After I Left

In June I wrote about how I stop LLMs drifting in production codebases. That post covered the checks I put in the repo so coding agents couldn’t quietly erode the architecture. What it couldn’t cover was whether any of it would survive without...

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soulcruzerSep 24, 2026

“Cut it up. Rearrange.” The words collide. The …

“Cut it up. Rearrange.” The words collide. The lines refuse to queue politely. There is something potent in Burroughs’ idea of language as a virus because it reverses our usual sense of ownership. We say I have an idea, I chose those words, this is what I believe. But what if the words arrived first?...