Kevin O’Farrell

Kevin O’Farrell

@kevinofarrell.bsky.social

Theologian at disability nonprofit. Bonhoeffer studies. Disability & Political theology. Book—Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/dietrich-bonhoeffer-and-a-theology-of-the-exception-9780567709394/

247 Followers 219 Following 99 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 weeks ago

Owning the Bonhoeffer works is the only way to fill the Bonhoeffer works shaped hole in your heart.

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2 months ago

Standing in solidarity with Kevins near and far

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3 months ago
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Truth, Lies and Folly: Bonhoeffer and the World of Alternative Facts - 27th November 2025 YouTube video by Project Bonhoeffer

I am taking this week off, but I was up early to attend the excellent conclusion of Project Bonhoeffer's Fall seminar sessions.
This final session tackled Bonhoeffer and the world of alternative facts. @kevinofarrell.bsky.social work got a well deserved shout out.

youtu.be/WrHXBAwlm7A?...

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3 months ago

Thanks for sharing this! I look forward to listening to it!

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3 months ago
No prizes for guessing who grok chose sorry

I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.

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5 months ago
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Why we're tempted to - and shouldn't - embrace decline Or, what I learned at diocesan synod, with a little help from Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates

From @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social

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5 months ago
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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...

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5 months ago

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

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5 months ago
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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.

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5 months ago

Indeed. I suppose every cent counts

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5 months ago
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

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6 months ago

Daniel, look at what you started with this

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6 months ago

One day we shall reunite

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6 months ago

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

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6 months ago

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).

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7 months ago

"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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7 months ago

❤️

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago
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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....

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7 months ago

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

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8 months ago
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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.

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9 months ago
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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.

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10 months ago

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

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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⤵️

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10 months ago

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

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10 months ago
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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...

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10 months ago

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.”

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11 months ago
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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

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11 months ago
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France, the country of true justice

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