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Abram Van Engen

@vanengen.bsky.social
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English professor at WashU in St. Louis. Co-host of podcast "Poetry For All." Author of "Word Made Fresh" and "City on a Hill." www.abramvanengen.com

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Abram Van Engen @vanengen.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The Christian Backlash Taking Hold www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
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Opinion | The Christian Backlash Taking Hold
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A longer-term proposal for how to stop attacks on higher education from @vanengen.bsky.social "We must explain the benefits of our work—not just for those who attend college, but for all." arcmag.org/the-lizard-t...
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The Lizard Theory of Higher Ed | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Universities face an existential crisis. A huge portion of the American public no longer sees their point or purpose. As a result, when the government slashes NIH funding, or cancels $400 million of c...
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Abram Van Engen @vanengen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Chronicle of Higher Education featured the WashU English Department in a recent piece because of our rising major and overall growth. We're grateful, though we're not the only department with a rising major thankfully. Happy to join others in the good work. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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Advice | How to Rescue Your Slumping Humanities Program
An English department reversed its enrollment slide and reinvigorated graduate training, too.
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Abram Van Engen @vanengen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I wrote this piece about Christian nationalism several years ago. Sadly, it seems newly relevant all over again. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
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Os Guinness, Eric Metaxas, and Their Dangerous Myths of American History
The dangers of Christian nationalism for both Christianity and the nation mount with each rewriting of the American past.
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This email debacle is the highlight of my day 😍
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Abram Van Engen @vanengen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Short piece I wrote about poetry and translation, and the power of Psalm 52 (about lying tyrants). open.substack.com/pub/poetryfo...
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Translation and Transference
Mary Sidney’s Psalm 52
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Abram Van Engen @vanengen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Fun night tonight talking about how friendship shapes the work we do in the university. Not always a common topic, but so important.
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Abram Van Engen @vanengen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’m here. On BlueSky. Hi.
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