yes, title = Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television
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yes, title = Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television
Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
me too
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
😬 "in 2025, about 16% of ATS [= Association of Theological Schools] freestanding schools ran deficits in excess of 20% of their expenditures...more than 25% of freestanding ATS member schools ran deficits in excess of 10% of their expenditures"
“Leaders of four global Christian communions say they are “profoundly dismayed” at the international community’s failure to prevent wars including the escalation of conflict in Iran and the Middle East.”
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
So now Claude has played a decisive role in two US invasions of foreign countries. And yet I'm expected to invite it into my classroom, in the name of "inevitability." How is this any different than prescribing or prohibiting what textsI teach? What if the college said I had to assign Rambo?
Feel like we are entering an interesting moment where different generations of evangelical theology are coming into direct conflict with one another.
smart move—an american baptist (abcusa) seminary offering a certificate for the vineyard (charismatic network/denomination that doesn’t have an official seminary)
Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.
houston: tuesday is primary election day!!!!! if you haven't voted yet, here's the excellent league of women voters houston voter guide with everything you need to know to vote all in one place for free:
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Genuinely wild how this administration isn't even *trying* to make a case for this war
did ryan leave for lent
screenshot of volume 1 comic book version of john calvin’s institutes, illustrated by pal cox and edited by martin and joy williams
til there’s a comic book version of calvin’s institutes
Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/6enUA-
“We often try to measure things in dollars + cost + profit + short-term gain. If you ask me what the economic benefit is to Franklin for returning the Mound, the answer is Idk. Further, I don’t care. Bc that was never the point; the reason this council voted unanimously was to do the right thing”
U.S. Protestant foreign missions are in flux as mainline denominations scale back or dismantle longtime missionary programs amid budget pressures and theological shifts — even as evangelical and non-denominational agencies continue sending thousands overseas.
julieroys.com/us-protestan...
thanks for the shout-out, glad you enjoyed!
“The Reverend Dr. Gabrielle Rachael Thomas named as the next Dean and President of Berkeley. She will also serve as Associate Dean of Yale Divinity School. Gabrielle will assume office on July 1, 2026, after Andrew McGowan retires after 12 years of exceptional service.”
i learned about it from the new podcast that the center for theological inquiry started
www.ctinquiry.org/podcast
whoa yes intense spice level
yes that’s the one! i was very impressed by it in seminary but that was a long time ago now
i have also heard—but haven’t read—that tom greggs’s dogmatic ecclesiology book offers a very *protestant* account of sacraments/sacramentality
wonder what you—either of you—think of hunsinger’s eucharist book
“Ted A. Smith, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Divinity, has co-edited a new scholarly volume examining the present + future of theological education…brings together a range of voices to reflect on how theological learning communities are navigating a period of significant transition”
this is super interesting and exciting
What we lose when confessions are treated as optional
Keanu Heydari pens a response to Charles Wiley’s “Why the PC(USA)’s Book of Confessions is too long — and how to fix it.”
#LetterToTheEditor
Once, on a recent visit to Facebook, the algorithm fed me a meme. It pictured the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, standing and gloating over the bodies of two world leaders—very much alive at time of writing—whose deaths would indeed inspire celebration, in Ukraine and elsewhere. I didn’t think much of the meme when I first scrolled past it. But I have reflected, later, on the small thrill it delivered. It was not (only) the thrill of ressentiment, a fantasy of comeuppance that arises because its real achievement is closed off. Rather, it was the thrill of hope. It reminded me that these leaders are mortal; that their regimes will fall; that those whom they persecute will outlast them. Of course, such hope amounts to little more than that found in, say, Ozymandias. That famous sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley renders up a more somber and elegant version of the same insight from the Facebook meme: time breaks power that seems impregnable. The massive statue of an ancient king who in his lifetime roared ‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ is reduced to a ‘colossal wreck’. There is a genuine insight here, whether in meme form or sonnetary convention, and a measure of consolation. But it is not yet a Christian insight, because it is not grounded in Jesus Christ; and it is a modest consolation, because sufferers are as much subject to mortality as tyrants. Even if some victims outlast tyrants, not all will.
i see that my "and finally" feature for *expository times* published
doi.org/10.1177/0014...
