…… As this continues, I think we can see what will evolve: the guild will lose all scholars except the R1, grad school/seminary profs at institutions that can pay for research support. Undergrads in the US (already no bastion of #ReligiousLiteracy ) will be less well educated in religion & theology. (Don’t even get me started on #ethics.) The base of #theologians and theological voices in the Church will get quieter and smaller. Christianity in the US is becoming increasingly, well, dangerous….

…I don’t think my current #IntroToReligion #students should foot the bill, either. They benefit, but indirectly and over time. Arguably my upper-level students? But that seems a disproportionate burden. My #work aims to help the #Church and the world. And #helping the world is part of my employer’s reason for existing, right? Education? #ReligiousLiteracy and all that? So how OUGHT the funding work, for scholars like me? Current system seems wrong & is demonstrably unjust (cf #ContingentFaculty