Lesleigh Cushing

Colgate Religion & Jewish Studies Prof. Hamilton Villager. Canadian by birth, American-ish by offspring. Cook, feeder of folks, reader-writer-crossword doer.

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

@royalhansen Like seeing those three faces on one screen!

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@JoelBordeaux @Forbes It’s *really* time to worry when Forbes is defending the humanities.

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@laokai These days that little girl is too self-sufficient to be found at the market with her mom!

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

Oops @laokai I replied from Religion Dept. Neg: fear (of others, of becoming tainted, of internalizing the external). Pos: purity, community

[Martin O'Malley @MartinOMalley]

Horrifying news out of #SanBernardino. Enough is enough: it's time to stand up to the @NRA and enact meaningful gun safety laws

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

Very friendly staff at #BurritoElito #PHL seem totally unaware that by definition anyone they're serving has a plane to catch. #slow

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My second good drink decision tonight. #proofandprovision

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

New conference game: in the crush of movement between sessions, try making eye contact with a passing stranger. #awkwardacademics #aarsbl15

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So, friends in other fields, I'll bet you don't have this in the book halls of your annual meetings. #sblaar2015

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

A little more Atlanta sunset from the belly of #AARSBL

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Dear Atlanta #AARSBL: I take back all the bad things I've said about you over the years.

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

I'm agnostic about the welders, but it sounds like we need more grammar teachers. #lessphilosophers #marcorubio https://t.co/YfavzGhtnQ

[NYT Politics @nytpolitics]

Marco Rubio on vocational training https://t.co/HCdivuRPAK

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"I'm studying to be a goddess" https://t.co/GCeDa7f6NY @ReligionColgate #religiousstudies #thevalueofthehumanities #liberalartsintheworld

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

Any profs in the twitosphere have an assignment about holiday food I could use in an undergrad religion class? #foodstudies #religionandfood

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

O Canada! Canadians fed up with divisive niqab debate turn out to vote in masks--and a pumpkin https://t.co/YZxR8ORxex via @nationalpost

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One evangelical's recognition that "one cannot be both 'pro-life' and 'pro-guns'" http://t.co/eFN5MaWROh

[Lesleigh Cushing @cushleigh]

It's books like this that keep me in business. http://t.co/PGT5bdNiti

[The New York Times @nytimes]

With anti-Muslim campaign, Canada has its Trump moment http://t.co/X6qaStfYGk via @NYTOpinion

[RNS @RNS]

Buried treasure: Shocked NJ prof discovers earliest draft of King James #Bible http://t.co/0xBiZFYyqN