Highlights from March 2024

The month of March began for me with a conference at the University of Alberta. I've been a graduate student in the department of History, Classics, and Religion at the university for several years now. The conference was a conference for graduate students from our department and beyond. I appreciated all the different students and their varied presentations, reminding me that one lifetime could never be enough to learn all the interesting things in the world. My paper discussed an emerging trend I've noted among some evangelical Christians online called "faith deconstruction". This was a bit of a departure from my regular research (religion in Irish literature) but also interesting and fun to discuss. I appreciate being able to attend the conference and share my work. March continued with good things when I had a chance to visit some friends and their classes at the University of Alberta. My friend Paul G teaches in the Native Studies department and I enjoyed attend...