Adam DJ Brett

🌲 International Research Associate @aila.social 📓 Associate editor @jcrt.org 🎓 Visiting Professor for Digital Humanities & Indigenous Studies 🍊 @syracuseu.bsky.social (PhD) alum 🕸️ www.adamdjbrett.com. #acrel --- provena18b3d views are my own

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Book Review of Warren Throckmorton’s The Christian Past That Wasn’t

1d ago·9 min read·1774 words

PNG to PDF to OCR: A Small Command Line Skill for Digital Humanities Work

A practical Mac command line workflow for turning high-resolution PNG scans into searchable OCR PDFs with img2pdf and OCRmyPDF.

1d ago·4 min read·646 words

Enabling Webmentions in Eleventy (11ty)

How I added webmentions to my Eleventy site with Bridgy, webmention.io, a GitHub Action, and Netlify — coding in public, mistakes and all.

2d ago·8 min read·1462 words

Publishing Your Eleventy Blog on the AT Protocol with Standard.site and Sequoia

A step-by-step guide to connecting your Eleventy static site to the AT Protocol using standard.site and sequoia-cli — own your content on the open web.

2d ago·20 min read·3831 words

Publishing Your Eleventy Blog on the AT Protocol with Standard.site and Sequoia

A step-by-step guide to connecting your Eleventy static site to the AT Protocol using standard.site and sequoia-cli — own your content on the open web.

2d ago·13 min read·2494 words

Publishing Your Eleventy Blog on the AT Protocol with Standard.site and Sequoia

A step-by-step guide to connecting your Eleventy static site to the AT Protocol using standard.site and sequoia-cli — own your content on the open web.

2d ago·13 min read·2494 words

Book Review: Embodied Wisdom by W.J. de Kock

2d ago·5 min read·816 words

Book Review: On Being in the Middle by W.J. de Kock

2d ago·5 min read·824 words

Book Review: W. J. de Kock's Out of My Mind

2d ago·5 min read·834 words

Book Review: The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars by Betty S. Lai

2d ago·6 min read·1167 words

Book Review: Spiritual Violence: Religious Phenomena That Defile the Faith by Rev. Alba Onofrio

2d ago·12 min read·2376 words

Book Review: The Urgency of Indigenous Values by Philip P. Arnold

2d ago·6 min read·1058 words

Publishing Your Eleventy Blog on the AT Protocol with Standard.site and Sequoia

A step-by-step guide to connecting your Eleventy static site to the AT Protocol using standard.site and sequoia-cli — own your content on the open web.

3d ago·13 min read·2494 words

11tyx5: Five Whitestone Foundation Sites, Eleventy, and the Long Open Web

Five Whitestone Foundation sites rebuilt with Eleventy for the long web — JCRT, The New Polis, Esthesis, and more — plus Zotero, DOI, and what's next.

3d ago·26 min read·5164 words

Making Blogs Easier to Cite with Zotero

What I learned from implementing Zotero-friendly metadata across adamdjbrett.com, JCRT, The New Polis, Esthesis, and The Whitestone Foundation.

Jun 25·7 min read·1222 words

App Review of *Lemma.pub*

Lemma.pub Is a Thoughtful Home for Open-Web Reading Notes on the #atproto

Jun 24·3 min read·513 words

Catastrophic Christianity Is Now Available

This book reflects on Christianity in a time of catastrophe: how theological language can normalize crisis, obscure harm, or help communities reckon honestly with violence, responsibility, and repair.

May 21·2 min read·334 words

A Postscript: Sovereignty is Still the Issue

We argue that sovereignty remains one of the most urgent questions for Indigenous studies, religious studies, and critical theory. Rather than treating sovereignty as a narrow legal category or as som…

May 20·2 min read·283 words

Zettelkasten as a Mind Garden

Building a mind garden one notecard at a time.

Jan 11·4 min read·622 words

Examining the Doctrine of Discovery in Religion and Indigenous Studies

Since the publication of *Pagans in the Promised Land* by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape), scholarship on the Doctrine of Discovery has expanded significantly as a central issue in Indigenous law a…

Dec 30·2 min read·206 words

How I fixed an 11ty performance error that caused my build time to be seven minutes

Notes on last night's Eleventy maintenance

Dec 16·3 min read·522 words

Announcing a new 11ty Shortlink and QR Code Generator purl.im

using the #indieweb for shortlinks and qr codes

Dec 15·4 min read·659 words

United Lutheran Seminary to host 'A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy' Conference, February 27–28

Two-day gathering will explore the religious and racialized roots of American democracy and paths toward a more just future.

Dec 4·5 min read·918 words

Embracing #nocode & creating a website with Carrd

Why scholars should own an independent web presence, how IndieWeb principles help preserve academic identity, and how Carrd can provide a low-friction no-code starting point.

Nov 30·5 min read·888 words

Deploying an Eleventy Site to XMIT using GitHub Actions

using the #indieweb and not the VC web for hosting

Nov 29·4 min read·680 words

Deploying Jekyll to XMIT

Deploying an Eleventy Site to XMIT using GitHub Actions. Supporting the #indieweb and not the VC web for hosting

Nov 26·2 min read·254 words

XMIT Redirects and 11ty

Using XMIT Redirects on an Eleventy site deploying to XMIT via GitHub Actions

Nov 25·1 min read·126 words

My Eleventy Sites

Nov 19·7 min read·1222 words

Commentary: Nuclear power is wrong for New York, environmentally and economically

The American Indian Law Alliance urges state leaders to stop polluters from poisoning the Earth with false climate solutions.

Nov 7·1 min read·101 words

Leave forprofit Academic Networking

the profbook project project has shutdown

Oct 30·1 min read·39 words

How to Generate QR codes in macOS

A practical macOS workflow for generating trustworthy QR codes with Homebrew and qrencode, avoiding fragile third-party shorteners and preserving links on domains you control.

Oct 9·2 min read·358 words

How to convert JPG to WEBP in macOS

Oct 9·1 min read·147 words

What are we celebrating with the Erie Canal?

What does the Erie Canal symbolize? Genocide and ecocide.

Oct 2·1 min read·50 words

Healing the Sacred

The protection and restoration of Onondaga Lake is not only essential for its future but for the well-being of all. The restoration of Indigenous sacred spaces is a catalyst for meaningful social and …

Sep 1·2 min read·275 words

New CrossCurrents Special Issue

Feb 23·1 min read·35 words

Get Tufte with 11ty

An 11ty theme with Edward Tufte Style sidenotes instead of footnotes.

Feb 23·2 min read·229 words

My (Neo)Brutalism 11ty Web Design Experiments

Brutalist web design has always fascinated me for its raw and unapologetic aesthetic. Much like its architectural counterpart, brutalism in web design strips away the polished layers of modern design …

Feb 22·3 min read·594 words

My Tiny Eleventy (11ty) Sites

building tiny 11ty starters with microframeworks

Feb 21·3 min read·513 words

On the Limits of the Concept of Religious Freedom in Indigenous Communities

we will argue that firstly, the international and national legal framings of religion or belief are limited in scope, and one must ask not only religious freedom *for whom* but also *from whom*.

Jan 6·2 min read·297 words

11ty Clean blog and cleaner repository

building an 11ty site using Start Bootstrap's Clean bloog template for inspiration

Jan 1·2 min read·276 words

Learning 11ty by adapting a Jekyll Template

converting a Jekyll template to eleventy the hard way

Dec 27·4 min read·715 words

Why Carrd.co Is the Best Platform for Simple, Responsive One-Page Sites, with Discount Code

Dec 12·2 min read·353 words

Documenting Domination: From the Doctrine of Christian Discovery to Dominion Theology

Dec 11·2 min read·226 words

Why Scholars Should Own Their Online Presence

An essay on why scholars should have a domain of their own and embrace the indieweb

Nov 22·3 min read·562 words

Digital Humanities as Preserving Inherently Ephemeral Information

Sep 7·1 min read·102 words

On Teaching Religious Studies

Jul 29·1 min read·9 words

Louisiana’s Ten Commandment Truthiness

Jul 16·1 min read·92 words

Will you be my Premier Lacrosse League buddy?

Jun 26·2 min read·288 words

Annoucing the Alf Jacques Ambassador Award

Jun 25·1 min read·123 words

Why I switched from Name.com to Namecheap

Jun 17·4 min read·727 words

Using Github Actions to Convert File Formats

Jun 12·4 min read·742 words

New Religious Studies Aggregators

May 19·2 min read·319 words

Trump’s Dangerous Rhetoric of Dehumanization

Apr 2·1 min read·96 words

The 23rd UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

Mar 26·1 min read·44 words

Volunteer V8 Wins Second Place

Feb 26·1 min read·84 words

Doctrine of Christian Discovery Podcast

Feb 20·3 min read·490 words

Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast

Feb 1·2 min read·336 words

Syracuse University to Host Conference that Addresses Legal and Theological Theory of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery

Sep 29·1 min read·34 words

200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Law, Religion, and Native American Lands, A Canopy Forum Thematic Series

Produced through a partnership between Canopy Forum, the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), and Syracuse University, this series of essays brings together religion scholars, legal scholars, and Indig…

Mar 10·1 min read·165 words

Mother Earth's Pandemic: The Doctrine of Discovery

This conference will connect the dots between our current pandemic, environmental devastation, the Doctrine of Discovery, and a way forward.

Jun 30·4 min read·677 words

Embracing #nocode & creating a website

Learn how to build a website without having to learn to code.

Apr 18·7 min read·1330 words

Referral Links and Discount Codes

Discount codes for name.com, carrd.co, UpCloud, BunnyCDN and more.

Mar 17·5 min read·978 words

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion

The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion is a community of teaching scholars.

Mar 17·2 min read·229 words

Gloria Steinem

Featuring Gloria Steinem, Sally Roesch Wagner, Jeanne Shenandoah, & Betty Lyons

Feb 20·3 min read·500 words

CFP: Flourish and Decay

The Religion Graduate Organization at Syracuse University announces the 2018 Graduate Student Conference Flourish and Decay: Exploring Religion in Process.

Nov 17·2 min read·363 words

Syllabus Design Resources at Syracuse University

Selected syllabus design resources at Syracuse University.

Aug 16·2 min read·326 words

Selected Syracuse University Policy Statements

Selected Syracuse University policy statements to help facilitate TA Orientation small group Discussion.

Aug 16·2 min read·213 words

Integrating Technology in the Classroom

Integrating Technology in the Classroom and utilizing technology to enhance teaching.

Aug 16·2 min read·380 words

Stephanie M. Wyatt

Rev. Stephanie Wyatt, Ph.D. studied Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) at Brite Divinity School. Her dissertation is Widows in the Memories of Biblical Israel.

Oct 24·1 min read·131 words

Warner Southern College

Warner Southern College, now Warner University is located in beautiful Lake Wales, Florida in the heart of central Florida.

Oct 20·2 min read·228 words