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Jay David Miller

@jaydavidmiller.bsky.social
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English Prof. Early Americanist. Quakerism.

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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Instead of watching The Uprising, maybe I will just reread Writing and Rebellion by Steven Justice: www.ucpress.edu/books/writin...
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Writing and Rebellion by Steven Justice - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry. harpers.org/archive/2026...
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C. Wess Daniels @gatheringinlight.com · 05/06/2026
I'm looking forward to the publication of my Pendle Hill Pamphlet titled: "God Bless the Grass: Liturgies of Empire, Liturgies of Resistance" It will be issue #500. As a part of that, I'll give an online lecture on August 10th. You can register for that here: pendlehill.org/calendar/lambs...
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Quaker studies people, please read and circulate this CFP for a special issue of @quakerrelthought.bsky.social on Joseph John Gurney, edited by Paul Harris: qtdg.org/2026/05/20/c...
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Call for Papers: Re-Appraising the Theology of Joseph John Gurney (A Special QRT Issue)
A CALL FOR PAPERS: QUAKER RELIGIOUS THOUGHT SPECIAL ISSUEA re-appraisal of the theology of Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847) Quaker Religious Thought is pleased to announce that a special issue of the…
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I reviewed a Nixon biography written by @danielsilliman.bsky.social, published by @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social. Silliman does a good job capturing Nixon's uniquely evangelical Quaker ethos . . . if you can call it that! readingreligion.org/978080287819...
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One Lost Soul - Reading Religion
Impious and amoral, petty and vindictive, Richard Nixon is not the typical protagonist of a religious biography. But spiritual drama is at the heart of this ...
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Excited to learn about this!
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Everything not forbidden is compulsory:
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New Directions in Quaker Literary History, a special issue of Early American Literature that I was honored to co-edit, is currently accessible for free!
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Gratifying to see my colleague Ross McCullough getting such a sterling review for his new book. I was privileged to read some of this in manuscript and I am looking forward to picking up the print version that is sitting on my desk now: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/scre...
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This ‘Screwtape for Our Times’ Will Challenge and Confound You - Christianity Today
The Body of This Death is difficult to classify, difficult to read, and absolutely worth your time.
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A student from my Quakerism class eagerly asked me where she could attend a conservative Friends meeting in the area. Had to break it to her that conservative Friends are concentrated in only a few geographic regions and none of them are remotely close by. A compelling vision, but hard to find.
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I am fortunate to teach in a program where this is exactly what we do!
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
RIP:
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Drafting a syllabus for an Intro to Quakerism class, and here I am typing up units titled "Beginnings" and "The Second Period." Those blue Braithwaite volumes leave an indelible mark on the soul!
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Marie Howe's New and Selected Poems was my favorite book I read this year. Posting this poem for the season: onbeing.org/poetry/annun...
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Great to see such an in-depth pedagogical piece in NYT Mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
👀
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Proofs for a special issue on "New Directions in Quaker Literary History," forthcoming in @early-am-lit.bsky.social!
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Yesterday was a good mail day. Going to read this new 33 1/3 book by my colleague @jmayward.bsky.social over the weekend!
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Can confirm as a professor at a Christian university that this is definitely a dynamic for young men, although they do not usually talk about their conversions in political terms, at least to me.
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Attendance at Arch Street was so low . . . that the few people present began to meet in a smaller room. But recent years have produced an unprecedented surge in the number of attendees at Sunday worship — from about 25 before the coronavirus pandemic to up to 100 today." apnews.com/article/quak...
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Young adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world
There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia.
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I've been appreciating this poem in the midst of the autumn rains here in the Pacific Northwest: harpers.org/archive/2025... @harpers.bsky.social
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Not all of us have forgotten this century . . .
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"the broad-brims"
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Had not heard of this new bio:
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I've officially signed a book contract with @psupress.bsky.social for my manuscript, Quaker Jeremiad, a literary history of Quaker agrarian writing in early America. I'm very grateful to Tristan Bates and the rest of that editorial team for their support. Looking forward to getting this in print!
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
14 Oct 1644: b. Willian Penn, future founder of #Pennsylvania #otd in #London. When arrested at a #Quaker meeting in #Cork city in 1667, he was heir to an estate of 7,500 #Irish acres in Co. Cork
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"To be human is, it seems to me, to care about the origins and sources of things, but we know very little, it also seems to me, about what most deeply shapes us." blog.ayjay.org/revival-retr...
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revival, retrospection, assessment – The Homebound Symphony
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Thee Quaker @theequaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Giles Calvert (d. 1663) was a prominent printer in 17th century England known for his association with religious dissenters and radicals. His shop, the Black Spread Eagle, was near near St. Paul's Churchyard in London. His shop was a hotbed of radical and egalitarian thought. (1)
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Don't usually post about baseball, but this was a prescient @williamfleitch.bsky.social article about how the Guardians could catch the Tigers back on August 12 when their chance of winning the division was 6% according to @fangraphs.com. They took lead today. www.mlb.com/news/guardia...
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Here's how the Guardians can make a historic run at the Tigers
On July 17, 1978, the Yankees lost to the Royals, 9-7, in 11 innings; the winning pitcher was Al Hrabosky and the losing pitcher Goose Gossage, in case you were wondering the facial hair situation tha...
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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (of Quaker Religious Thought) is excited to share our 2025 call for papers on the theme: "Quaker Public Ministry: History, Practice, Challenges." See qtdg.org for further details.
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
From my Met daily art calendar today: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Claude Monet - Bouquet of Sunflowers - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
<b>The Painting:</b> While living with his family at Vétheuil, a small suburb on the Seine northwest of Paris, Claude Monet took up floral painting both outdoors in the garden and indoors with cut flo...
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"At times, you will sense no response. You may feel an emptiness, darkness or frustration. Do not despair, this is part of the process of becoming empty for God. Persevere." dailyquaker.com/2025/09/beco...
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Becoming Empty for God
"The use of silence or solitude as a doorway to the Divine has a long history in the Christian tradition. Jesus often went away to pray alone. (Mark 1:35; Matthew 14:23; Luke 5:16). Early Christian mo...
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Looks like a great issue!
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"A few years ago I said that vindictiveness was the moral crisis of our time. But some (not all, but some) of our rage has burned itself out. The passive acceptance of utter cruelty . . . has become the most characteristic feature of our cultural moment." blog.ayjay.org/the-ai-busin...
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the AI business model – The Homebound Symphony
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Encouraging:
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
David Bentley Hart: "I have a great affection for George Fox and considerable admiration for many Quaker figures throughout history . . . . If all Christians were more like the Quakers at their best they would also be more like Christ." davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/q-and-a-13
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Q & A 13
French prose and Greek lexica, poetry and poets, VN and PW, Quakers and running dogs of capitalism, baseball and dinosaurs...
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
From my Met daily art calendar today: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Auguste Renoir | Bouquet of Chrysanthemums | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This is my time! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Much Do You Know About Early American Literature? (Gift Article)
Before the Independence Day fireworks this week, try this short quiz on America’s popular books published during the country’s formative years.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Well, call me ignorant. Have never read Moby Dick and decided, for reasons, that this summer I would. Became instantly obsessed with "Etymology" and "Extracts," the actual first line about the pale usher and of course the sub-sub librarian. And have starting reading some scholarship on same.
Screenshot of the title page of the first edition of "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale."
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Great to see @newsberg.org, "a two-year-old hyperlocal digital news outlet serving Newberg," my hometown, featured in the @columjournreview.bsky.social‬! www.cjr.org/analysis/ore...
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Pioneering Payback
The potential of the Oregon Journalism Protection Act.
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Robynne Rogers Healey @rrhealey.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@psupress.bsky.social is having a 2-week sale on its Christian studies books www.psupress.org/two_week_sal.... The New History of Quakerism books are in this sale. Get them while they're hot and relatively affordable! #Quaker #history
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Christian Studies Sale
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Looking forward Jon Fosse's newest: www.newyorker.com/books/this-w...
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Jon Fosse on Writing as an Act of Listening
The author discusses his story “Elias.”
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"Whenever I see the words cascade down my computer screen, I get a sinking feeling. Do I really have to read this?" hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
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ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
AI offers a tempting illusion to students&mdash;and evidently to some teachers.
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Great thread. It's amazing how understudied and potentially misunderstood Gurney is:
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Benjamin Franklin did not read articles from The Spectator, recreate them from memory, translate them into verse, and back into prose, sometimes improving upon the original- in order to become “a tolerable English writer” - just for you to use the trash robot app to spit out terrible sentences!!!!!
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Good:
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Jay David Miller @jaydavidmiller.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Requiescat in pace.
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Thee Quaker @theequaker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Stillwater Meetinghouse in Barnesville, OH, was built in 1878 in federal style to house the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Conservative Friends. The members of the Yearly Meeting built the structure in 90 days for $9,000. The building, on the campus of Olney Friends School, has a Quaker Heritage Museum.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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