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Michelle Panchuk

@michellepanchuk.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Philosophy writing about religious trauma, philosophy of religion, and feminist philosophy. Triathlete. (she/her)

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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We should not, as philosophers of religion, accept self-serving (non)apologies that take no responsibility for concrete wrongs done and lack any evidence of genuine remorse, change, or making of amends. Predators don’t get to decide when enough time has passed to go back to business as usual.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Unspeakably cruel and inhumane. “Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It’s important to keep repeating the reality of your lived experience and affirming it for others when being gaslighted. Here’s what i remember of the day when Russia invaded Ukraine. I was at the APA hotel bar gabbing with Kate Norlock when my phone started blowing up, but i ignored it because…
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My project this semester is to write on the nature of spiritual flourishing, how religious trauma undermines it, and what sorts of practices and virtues might promote individual and collective flourishing in the aftermath of religious trauma. One of the biggest challenges I’m facing is to…
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If you have read my Cambridge Element on Religious Trauma and are inclined to leave an Amazon, Goodreads, or StoryGraph review, I’d be grateful for the feedback and promotion! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Religious Trauma
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
🧵1/6 As I have been reading Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio Hansen book, Speaking of Rape, it struck me that just as the myth of “real rape” can make it difficult for those who weren’t violently assaulted by a stranger in a dark alley to understand and communicate their experiences of sexual violation…
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Content Note: Child abuse 🧵(1/7) I just finished reading the child abuse laws of all 50 states. It is so grim. There are a few states that have robust protections. There are a few that have laws that specifically respond to the ways that poverty, disability, and culture have been used to justify…
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🧵(1/5) In light of the new EO, just a friendly reminder that *cisgender boys* are the population of minors getting the most surgical gender-affirming procedures, not trans kids. And almost all surgical gender-affirming care in minors is top surgery performed on older teens.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It’s available for free download for 3 more days, y’all! You can also get a physical copy from CUP, Bookshop, or Amazon. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Religious Trauma
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Look what came in the mail today!
Image of me wearing a grey sweater, holding a copy of my book: Religious Trauma. The book cover is a dark teal and aqua image of the night sky showing the Aurora anda small black silhouette of a person on a hill gazing up at it.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The myth that people who commit moral horrors are not brilliant, do not produce good work, are never fun to be around, prevents us from recognizing abuse and predation when it is happening. If the inference, “He is a moral monster, so his books must be trash” works, so does the inference,
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering, but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school and the law and every trade,” Yenor said. “If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that’s not a failure. It’s kind of a cause for celebration,”
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
So honored to have Rabbi and philosophy professor Samuel Lebens endorse my book! It can be downloaded for free until the 23rd here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
On the left side, text reads, "'In this ground-breaking study, Dr. Michelle Panchuk brings tremendous erudition, penetrating insight, and profound compassion to bear on the issue of religious trauma. With grace and scholarly care, Dr. Panchuk uncovers many of the psychological, philosophical, and theological ramifications of the abuse that occurs in religious contexts.' Rabbi Samuel Lebens, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Haifa."  On the right is the front cover of a book, entitled "Religious Trauma" by "Michelle Panchuk".  The cover art has a small silhouette of  person on a hill in the lower right corner looking up at the night sky, which takes up most of the cover, where the aurora borealis is visible.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Content note: Child abuse (1/2) Listening to Kuang’s Babel and was caught of guard by the child abuse scene near the beginning. The passage is especially upsetting if, as a child, you listened to adults at church swapping suggestions about how to accomplish this as part of “Biblical parenting.”
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
(1/5) This came up in my newsfeed on FB today, and while I appreciate the sentiment, I feel like it missed what is most insidious about the marriage of religion and violence. There is a whole theological framework for explaining why the violence is *actually* an expression of neighbor love.
A bearded man showing off a tee-shirt with the words, “I’m a love your neighbor Christian, not a storm the Capitol kind.”
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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Michael Farris must be so proud. 🤣🤣🤣
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Fun to watch people in the left who have been pretending to be pro-immigrant for years while pointing out that undocumented people aren’t taking the jobs Americans actually want jump on the “Immigrants are stealing the *good* American jobs” train.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I’ve been listening to Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich for the past few days. The section “On Cries and Whispers…and Exhilaration” where Margarita Pogrebitskaya (sp?) tells her story feels like it could have been told by someone who (reluctantly) left Evangelicalism.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
"In the context of religious trauma, both those holding institutional power & the general community often need not to know of the reality & pervasiveness of abuse within their communities. Knowing might threaten a status quo in which they find comfort & meaning." - @michellepanchuk.bsky.social
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Cozy winter afternoon drinking Earl Grey and reading Jessica Coblentz’s book, Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression while my kiddo naps.
The top of a book in the foreground and a child sleeping on the sofa with a cat in the background.
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 01/01/2025
My newest piece of flash fiction is up on @kaleidotrope.bsky.social -- what if you could live forever? With some yogacara philosophy. Maybe fun for @lastpositivist.bsky.social @neuroyogacara.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
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“The Diamond Mountain” by Helen De Cruz
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
If you're striving to better understand the unique contours of religious trauma, check out this piece from @michellepanchuk.bsky.social, which is available for free download until Jan. 23. So much that's so good in it. I recommend. #ChurchToo
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My year in books. Also almost finished with Kenneth Pargament and Julie Exline’s Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy and Jessica Coblentz’s Dust in the Blood.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My cat is very happy we are home after holiday travels.
Black cat sitting on my outstretched legs with large book to the side
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My book will be available for free download for the next couple of weeks:
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I’m not going to finish reading any more novels this year, so I think it’s safe to say that my favorite work of fiction that I read this year was The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell. “Favorite” isn’t exactly the right word. This book wrecked me. I haven’t cried this hard while reading a book in a…
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Really honored that Kenneth Pargament would endorse my book:
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Ed Cyzewski @edcyzewski.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This is an incredible free offer for the book by my friend @michellepanchuk.bsky.social on religious trauma. It has an academic tone but is so incredibly helpful and important for the church today: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Religious Trauma
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My Element is available for free download from Cambridge University Press today! "Even as the general public is horrified and entertained by [accounts of religious trauma], deep understanding of the unique contours of trauma inflicted in religious contexts… www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Religious Trauma
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
There are few philosophers whose work I teach more of, over such a wide variety of classes, as @helendecruz.net. I teach her in Ethics, the Big Questions, Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy: Faith and the Divine, and Science Fiction and Feminism.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Michelle is one of the leading authorities on the topic of religious trauma; and interest in the topic has skyrocketed over the past decade. The book is carefully and sensitively written, and it gives an extremely helpful guide to the philosophical and theological significance of religious trauma.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I’m really happy to see that @michellepanchuk.bsky.social’s Cambridge Element is now in print: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Religious Trauma
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 20/12/2024
My first (maybe let's be realistic also last) novella will appear with @thepinkhydra.bsky.social Press. I'm so excited. It's a romance fantasy story about an unhoused magician (M, 30) and a university librarian (F, 47) who fall in love as she finds him drawing on the magic of the university 1/
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Chris Jones @profchrismjones.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I just learned that @michellepanchuk.bsky.social's Cambridge Core book on Religious Trauma is out! It's really good, both as a resource on past scholarship and as a contribution in its own right. The E-book is available here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Religious Trauma
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Pleased to share that my Cambridge Element, Religious Trauma, has been released online. While a work of philosophy, it aims to be accessible to a lay audience, introducing readers to the phenomenon and scholarship, and moving the conversation forward. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Religious Trauma
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Religious Trauma
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Congrats to Murray State’ Fall 2024 graduates! We’re so proud of you.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Seeing Mace in the news again reminded me… I grew up in a military town in SC before women were allowed to attend the Citadel, and I remember the sorts of things conservatives would say about Faulkner and later Mace and the others…
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I study trauma, and I still can’t wrap my brain around these numbers.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I just got an automated note from Wiley-Blackwell thanking me for citing an article in the Journal of Traumatic Stress in my recent publication. That’s a first, but also a strange practice.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
His statements are deeply insulting to survivors of clergy CSA and victims of Nazi death camps. They are also incredibly dangerous for autistic folks and the people who will suffer and die if we lose herd immunity to preventable diseases. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary. It’s definitely a typical American, feel-good narrative arch with a happy ending, but the truth is that I could use a little feel-good, “friendship saves the day” fantasy right now.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This weekend at the AAR, I commented on a paper on Mary’s role in the incarnation in Christian theology. It reminded me how much social significance this narrative has at this moment in American history. The belief that an ancient Near Eastern teenage girl could consent to being impregnated by…
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Barrett made this lovely social philosophy starter pack. I don’t usually think of myself as a social philosopher, but I do some social epistemology in the context of trauma theory, so I’m really pleased to be included.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today’s observation: there are fewer theobros at the AAR than the SCP.
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Had a lovely time giving a talk on Mad Pride and Care Ethics and trading strategies for making courses more accessible without neglecting our own needs as faculty with folks at SDSU last night.
Picture of me in a black suite and slides with the heading “Central Features of Care Ethics”
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Who all is going to be at the AAR this weekend?
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Looking forward to commenting on @amypeeler.bsky.social’s paper, “Born of a Woman”, at the SCP session at AAR this Friday!
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If you are going to be at the AAR, consider coming by to hear Amy Peeler talk about Paul’s view of Mary and the Incarnation. I’ll be giving comments along with @michaelreand.bsky.social and Joshua Thurow.
Image of Mary holding baby Jesus, with the heading “Paul and the Incarnation.” Also includes event details: November 22, 3pm to 5:00pm, Hilton Sapphire 411A. Reception 6-8, Bay City Brewing.
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Shelley Lynn Tremain she/her/they @shelleytremain.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you still don't have _The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability_, you can get it now (until Dec. 8) at 30% off if you go to the Bloomsbury website, where you can also read a description of the book, table of contents, and reviews. Go here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...
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The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability.…
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Michelle Panchuk @michellepanchuk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I hate that understanding theobros is currently politically important, but I think it is. Hegseth also has ties to Doug Wilson and the theobros. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
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