Andrew Jacobs (he/him)

This site has incredible energy for having opinions about religion coupled with not much energy for knowing things about religion.

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Homer Simpson saying "Star wipe!"

Maybe it happened

aw, well, this is kinda sweet...
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Hagar bust

"Hagar is perhaps more epithet than name, ha 'the,' gar 'resident alien.' She is an African (Egyptian) woman or girl of childbearing age held in slavery by Sarah (Gen 16:1)." Read Hagar by Wil Gafney buff.ly/A37N6gV #BlackHistorySBL26

Huge congratulations to Heather White on their Mollenkott Award!
You can read, assign, cite, recommend their award winning article on churches as spaces of gay liberation organizing on QTR’s completely fee free and open access site here!
@dukepress.bsky.social

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cover of "Go Ask Alice" by "Anonymous," more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Ask_Alice

an ur-text of Gen X young adulthood

ah you're right! plus I don't even have my old Commodore 64 anymore.

plus TOPICS

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ancient mosaic of an angel making a gesture with the index and middle fingers. the position of the stripe on the tunic looks like a cigar between the fingers. background imagery looks like smoke.

If you crop this picture just the right way, it looks like this angel is smoking a cigar. Now I can't unsee it.

YouTube video by ONE Media PRESSURE Official Trailer (2026) Brendan Fraser

lmao you find out what this movie is actually about around the 40 second mark of this trailer and never in a million years would i have predicted it

Rhea Receptions Introducing Rhea Receptions is a new thematic series comprised of reviews, essays, and other engagements with the ancient world in pop culture and not restricted to academic, peer-reviewed publicat…

Last call for Rhea Receptions this summer! Receptions is a new thematic series of reviews, essays, and engagements that bring the ancient world to a broader audience by examining public-facing, non-specialist depictions of the ancient Mediterranean in modern media. Come write and explore with Rhea!

Being gorgeous was not simply a way of representing imperial power. It was a mode of governance, a means of getting people to do and not do things. These emperors, the reader will discover in the pages that follow, used a highly capa- cious, fluid, flexible male gender performance to exercise sovereignty. This is political history that focuses on the centrality of imperial beauty, in all its sparkle, for ­ establishing Theodosius and his sons as arbiters of elite manliness. It shows how they manifested and deployed male same-sex desire, indeed queerness, at the ­ center of power to declare their unifying force as the most sacred and divine rulers, tasked with guaranteeing the eternity of the realm. That is, this is a history not of gender as such but of gender as integral to the exercise of political power.

i'm only 14 pages into Susanna Elm's IMPORTANCE OF BEING GORGEOUS and it's sooooooo good

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(read for free!)

GMGMA (Good Morning Global Middle Ages)

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The second volume in our series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T): Fabien Muller's /Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy/

(I know it's Global Middle Ages but my TV-rotted brain is hard-wired to read GMA as Good Morning America)

How much can these toys fucking go through

A sleepy tiny cat swaddled in white bedding

CC the semi-eremitcal cat has taken to sleeping in our bed and has reached that all-important I Won't Let You Make the Bed stage of cat acclimation

liberal arts? liberation arts

Four photos. Top left a woman taking a photo. Top right, the same woman with a camera crouched in a catacomb tomb. Bottom left. The same woman with a camera with a man with a camera standing inside a catacomb chamber. Bottom right a shadow of a woman wearing a hat taking a photo against a wall of ancient inscriptions. Text: Estelle Brettman and Fernando Di Porto at work.

This event is part of our ongoing celebration of the centennial of the International Catacomb Society's founder Estelle Shohet Brettman (1925-1991).

You can learn more about her amazing life and dedication to the study of the catacombs on the ICS webpage: www.catacombsociety.org/about/about-...

We're excited to be teaming up with Fordham to bring you the first "Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity Lecture" with @candidamoss.bsky.social! Join us!

Poster announcing Jennifer Barry of University of Mary Washington's lecture at the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins on her recent book Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination: March 5, 6:30-8:00PM Eastern, on zoom. To get the zoom link, email Reyhan Durmaz rdurmaz@upenn.edu

Coming up at the PSCO: Jennifer Barry aka @jennisifire.bsky.social lecturing from her new @ucpress.bsky.social book Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination

Thurs March 5, 6:30-8:00PM Eastern
Zoom link available!

16 April Divine Currency!? Italic and Roman monetary cultures on the Eve of the First Punic War Liv Yarrow, City University of New York Abstract This paper gives careful attention to archeological contexts of bronze finds within religious sanctuaries especially that of Diana at Nemi; explores comparative epigraphic and iconographic evidence, including recent discoveries for San Casciano dei Bagni; and shares results of recent non-destructive experimental techniques (negative Muonic X-rays). The balance of evidence complicates our long-held assumptions regarding intrinsic value of ‘heavy bronze’.

Do you live in St. Louis?! Do you have coin friends in the area? Or archaeology nerds? Or just lovers of all things Roman. I'm giving a pretty awesome public lecture. Details after the link: classics.wustl.edu/events/divin...

“Andrew … the cows have come home.”

“Andrew … the cows have come home.”

What Do You Do When the Biggest Platforms For Readers Are Kind of Evil? Last week a number of popular authors published an open letter to the leadership team of RELX. RELX is the parent company of Reedpop, which is the organizer of many conventions including BookCon, w…

I wrote about how there are no pure platforms or publishers and how there are very few ethical media diets. Which leaves those of us who know we can’t consume ethically but still want to try, left to navigate what feels right, or, at least, less bad. lithub.com/what-do-you-...

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Posting again for visibility: Rhodes College is hiring a 2-year VAP, cross-appointed in Religious Studies and Africana Studies. Review of applications starts Mar. 9. Please share with your networks! Thank you!

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