Book Review: On Being in the Middle by W.J. de Kock
A review of *On Being in the Middle: Doing Theology in the Face of Uncertainty*, W.J. de Kock's personal and theological account of growing up under apartheid and finding a theology of liminality.
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Browse page 4 of Adam DJ Brett's blog archive with posts on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and project updates.
Book Review: W. J. de Kock's Out of My Mind
An Afrikaner pastor's apartheid faith unravels, then heals into a “regenerative theology.” A review of W.J. de Kock's memoir-theology hybrid, Out of My Mind.
Book Review: The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars by Betty S. Lai
Betty S. Lai. The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars. Princeton University Press, 2023. Skills for Scholars series. ISBN: 9780691231877.
Making Blogs Easier to Cite with Zotero
What I learned from implementing Zotero-friendly metadata across adamdjbrett.com, JCRT, The New Polis, Esthesis, and The Whitestone Foundation.
Book Review: Spiritual Violence: Religious Phenomena That Defile the Faith by Rev. Alba Onofrio
Onofrio’s work offers urgent language for naming the forms of religious harm often hidden beneath the language of faithfulness, doctrine, and institutional authority. The book is both a theological critique and a practical resource for communities seeking repair, accountability, and liberation from spiritual violence.
Byword app review: the Markdown writing room that still earns its place
A review of Byword as a focused Markdown app for academic writing, with notes on footnotes, export limits, and a Pandoc workflow.
App Review of Lemma.pub
Lemma.pub Is a Thoughtful Home for Open-Web Reading Notes on the #atproto
Book Review: The Urgency of Indigenous Values by Philip P. Arnold
A review of Philip P. Arnold’s The Urgency of Indigenous Values, exploring land, relation, ecology, the Doctrine of Discovery, and Indigenous ways of life.
Catastrophic Christianity Is Now Available
This book reflects on Christianity in a time of catastrophe: how theological language can normalize crisis, obscure harm, or help communities reckon honestly with violence, responsibility, and repair.
A Postscript: Sovereignty is Still the Issue
We argue that sovereignty remains one of the most urgent questions for Indigenous studies, religious studies, and critical theory. Rather than treating sovereignty as a narrow legal category or as something granted through settler colonial recognition, we emphasize Indigenous sovereignty as lived, enacted, and grounded in land, language, traditional governance, and responsibilities to all living beings.
Zettelkasten as a Mind Garden
Building a mind garden one notecard at a time.
Examining the Doctrine of Discovery in Religion and Indigenous Studies
Since the publication of *Pagans in the Promised Land* by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape), scholarship on the Doctrine of Discovery has expanded significantly as a central issue in Indigenous law and politics.