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23.02.2026 05:30
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Ouch.
The author of the piece I’m copy-editing has (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2016) in the text but Cave, N., & The Bad Seeds in the Reference List. Consistency demands the in-text citation be (Cave et al. 2016) but while technically correct that does not feel right.
If it were footnotes and biography, it would be simple—I would shrug and leave it as Cave, Nick, & The Bad Seeds. It would be easy to find and the footnote would also be simple. But author-date makes it more difficult.
Nod. (Cave et al. 20xx) just feels rather odd for referring to an album…
And the whole question started with reflecting on the in-text citation format. Curse you, author-date!
An editing question where Chicago18 is letting me down. Putting albums by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in a reference list—I think it should be under N. The author of the piece has it under C. Any opinions, anyone? Thoughts
@akma.bsky.social ?
I particularly like how, if you click through, you find that the toolkit turns to various other churches and organisations for many of the training resources, humbly admitting the need to listen to and learn from others. An excellent example for all of us in mainline churches.
The apology is here: bsky.app/profile/urc....
Note: the post in question has now been deleted, and an apology put up by the URC’s social media team—but the Daily Devotion remains as it was.
I say all of this as a Presbyterian minister who, when I lived in England, served for a time as a minister of the United Reformed Church, and remain a member of the denomination’s Inter Faith Enabling Group.
We can do better.
such laziness has and will continue to be used to promote violence against Jews.”
From the chapter “Judeophobia and the Pharisees” by Meredith J. C. Warren, Shayna Sheinfeld, and Sara Parks.
To quote from Judeophobia and the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2025) p. 45, in the current political climate, “the way we use ‘Pharisees’ in classrooms and churches is one area where we do not want to be lazily reinscribing harmful caricatures;
Would any of this had been noted if the social media post had not linked the devotion to Holocaust Memorial Day?
Don’t know, but with or without this shocking juxtaposition, churches have to do better in all our actions towards people of other religious traditions.
The daily devotion linked to in the post and officially produced by a relatively progressive Christian denomination repeats stereotypes of specific 1st-century Jewish groups without any critical reflection on the text, simply using them as representative of ”false teaching and unhealthy influence”.
This post demonstrates the continuing need for Christians, especially but not only Christian clergy and other leaders, to have education concerning the history and traditions of Judeophobia in Christian theology and the interpretation of sacred texts.
My Catholicism is so lapsed that the Vatican has a photo of me behind the counter saying “Do not accept prayers from this woman.”
Nevertheless, a lot of churches of many different denominations are doing a lot of genuinely good things!
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A very important thing for you to know about Icelandic is that the word "rassgat" (butthole) is used as an endearment about cute things. So if you say someone is "algjört rassgat" (a total butthole) it means they are VERY cute. If the cuteness is overwhelming we say "rúsínurassgat" (raisin asshole).
Well. I guess this is a professional challenge.
Drawing of a duck looking at a flier for curling lessons
duck pulling a curling stone
A duck pushing a curling broom
That same duck on a podium winning first prize with a medal and crown
A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this
I have my coffee
The main crimes I was faced with had to do with tastes in hymns and human nature, and both went unsolved. But for more standard mysteries: reactormag.com/an-infallibl...
In many ways that fits so much.
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Happy World Linguistics Day, from Umeå, Sweden!
Very interesting article on the deaf community, language and power.
The first book I thought of in response to this was Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage, but others have got there first. Also, Premee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning Grass and Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors.
What is our responsibility as SFF writers in the face of genocide and anti-Muslim violence?
Read Tanvir Ahmed's excellent essay in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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Listen to our chat with him this week on @justkeepwriting.bsky.social for some thoughts
www.justkeepwriting.org/podcast/epis...
When I fly back to Canada from my residence in Sweden to visit my parents, the hardest part of the trip is figuring out how I will get from Pearson International to Cambridge without a car.
Why I Will Not Be Using AI to Write My Sermons: An encouragement to resist using AI for any part of your sermon writing process https://www.reyes-chow.com/an-ai-sermon-is-just-that-artifical/