Kevin O’Farrell

Nigeria’s Anglican Church breaks from Church of England over appointment of newly elected same-sex affirming Archbishop of Canterbury Nigeria’s Anglican Primate, Archbishop Henry Ndukuba, has declared that the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, is severing her spiritual ties and can no longer recognize the leadership of the Chur...

Sad day for the Anglican Communion: www.christiandaily.com/news/nigeria...

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

New Edition of Beyond Suffering: Transforming Disability Ministry Worldwide | Joni and Friends Over one billion people worldwide live with a disability, and that number is growing every day. Churches are on the front lines of ministering to those with...

I’m grateful to finally have this resource I co-authored out in the wild. This new edition aims to equip churches (particularly in the global south) for disability ministry.

Indeed. I suppose every cent counts

Shows three prices for a book. The lowest is 31 usd for kindle and the hardcover is 1037 usd

The hardcover version seems slightly overpriced

Daniel, look at what you started with this

One day we shall reunite

Learn from one of the best on a very important and timely topic

The Hebrew Scriptures state that such prior problems multiply—rather than reduce—the wrongdoing of further harm. On Mt Sinai, the Lord declared allegiance with those who have preexisting conditions, and gave a law declaring Israel shall not be if it does not share God's compassion (e.g. Ex 22:21-7).

"Most of the promotion of A.I. in schools boils down to: Well, it’s happening, and so students need to know.

But there’s nothing attaching it to learning outcomes. There’s nothing assessing its risk to privacy, to data, to the mental and emotional and cognitive development of students."

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Get it while you can. It’ll change your life

Book Review: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception by Kevin O’Farrell - Cody Bivins-Starr, 2025

Reviews on my Bonhoeffer book are coming out and no one’s called me stupid yet.

Theology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Studies in Christian Ethics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Schmitt’s friend-enemy distinction keeps coming to mind on this point. What binds disparate religious groups together is a shared decision on who doesn’t belong. Friendship through exclusion, etc

ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution - Christianity Today On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers were detained in Los Angeles, adding to the count of church members taken despite lawful status.

On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers who fled persecution for their Christian faith were detained by ICE in Los Angeles.

The arrests add to a growing number of church members taken despite lawful status.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Map of many sighting with photos of ICE raids in Ventura County

Ventura County definitely hit hard today with ICE raids.

Crowdsourced site of sightings. Maybe worth starting to TOR this stuff IMHO.

My thoughts with the families of all the folks who were snatched off our streets today 🙏 […]

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One of my fav bits of non-commentary on the pope was when a tv anchor said “it’s important to note that he is Augustinian.” When asked why it was important, she answered “well it is an order in the Catholic Church” and nothing else

In his first Sunday address at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.

"I carry in my heart the sufferings of the beloved Ukrainian people. Let everything possible be done to achieve genuine, just and lasting peace as soon as possible⤵️

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture “Louis Dupré’s study of the Enlightenment, ranging as it does over art, morality, religion, science, philosophy, social theory, and a good deal besides,...

Not quite on topic but I found this really useful and I learned of it since John Webster recommended it to his phd students back when

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Also from Pope Francis’s Stations of the Cross meditations:

“An economy in which the ninety-nine are more important than the one is inhumane. Yet we have built a world that works like that: a world of calculation and algorithms, of cold logic and implacable interests.”

Driving Overthink · Episode

Apparently Lacan once took the Heideggers on a road trip and his driving was so erratic Martin thought Lacan was testing his authentic being towards death

France, the country of true justice

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

Nightmare: "The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up."

Michelangelo painting

Child in stroller with shade down showing only her feet

Two experiences of the Uffizi

Me vs my small child

Very true. I find this is the interpretive point that gets the most adamant and emotional pushback from other Christians.

I recently saw a forthcoming book that basically says if you question that disability results from the fall, then you have undercut the gospel. Pretty wild stuff

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

Picture in booklet of woman searching for lost coin under a dresser

There are also pictures throughout of the Bible stories made by people with IDD. This one is of the parable of the lost coin

Check it out here:

www.sociedadbiblica.org/proyectos-mi...