Daniel Johnson

The best thing about lecturing on the Reformation is the songs you can use as slide titles

Stairway to Heaven
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Faith
I’m a Believer
Hammer Time
Nine-ty Five
Personal Jesus
Paradise City

I hope the world seemed in tune as you sang

Spring is here, spring is here
Life is skittles and life is beer

It’s maybe practice - the activity of belief - but also a confidence in the object of your belief? Abraham was a “father of the faith(s)” but then that praying lady is a woman of faith?

I’d say that religion is the formalised entity (eg Christianity) but faith is where it interacts with a person or community (eg I am a Christian). And then belief would be the shared or individual confessions (eg I believe in the Father…)

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What are your favourite texts, podcasts, articles, and videos on Christian Nationalism - past or present. Thanks

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Sure - thanks, good idea!

Thank you, that’s really helpful. I just don’t want to appear (or worse, be!) one of those bully academics. But it’s also ok to disagree I guess. Thank you

I have no basis to judge him as a scholar, good or bad - I hope he’s good! I may look to write a response in the same publication. This is helpful, thanks

Who has said this?

This is very Hot Fuzz

It’s partly because I refute their ideology - they’re using their academic knowledge to advocate for a position I deeply disagree with

By popular, I mean written for a popular audience. Evangelicals Now - not massive circulation, but public in a certain sector

Any advice please? I want to push back, but not kick down

Genuine question - a PhD student wrote a popular article that I deeply disagree with (it was pro Christian nationalism), but I don’t want to do a social media pile on. I’m a salaried PhD with a much larger following, so am aware of power dynamics. But he’s discussed his piece on social media

Also, if you’re a tax-evading billionaire and you need to lie about immigrants because they’re somehow a threat to the country you apparently love, pay your taxes here and pay your workers

Anyway, to love another person is to see the face of God

Conversations around immigration are necessary, but the language matters. I hate that I live in a country where the far right is part of the national debate. Farage, Lowe, Ratcliffe, Braverman, et al, have poisoned us

“To love another person is to see the face of God”

One the most insidious things the anti-immigration voices have done is reduced immigrants to their economic output. And so I hear myself wanting to say “but this person does XYZ”. No, they’re people who are intrinsically deserve respect and dignity

How about those who are anti-immigration be required to insist that they only use British NHS staff when they next go to hospital. Self-select the kind of care you want, and see what contribution non-British peoples make to our society

I'd also add that the response from Reform, to threaten to defund Bangor, shows why they are empty of any civic use. They are simply a collection of empty responses to any given situation. This is why they should be debated, to expose their sham

I hope someone at Oatly quoted Bart Simpson, telling the dairy industry not to have a cow (man) over this

The decision at Bangor is terrible. Free speech - especially in a debate society - includes views you can’t abide. All this does is foster the Reform narrative that they are the plucky outsider. Debate them and show them up for what they are

None of us are ready for the fear that the toilet brush might have decorated the upstairs landing

If you want a dog, I’ll drop it off next time I’m in London

Just had to wrestle the toilet brush off the dog

I listen weekly to new episodes, and I like the format. Today’s was just…the academic kept saying how much she resented Christianity (because of her dad, a vicar), and then it just became lazy where actually valid criticisms would be useful

Which isn’t to say historians can’t interrogate the worst offences of the Church - such as the murder of Hypatia - but this necessary critique is more potent if it is historically accurate