Sally Douglas

“the university is meant to serve as no less than an ecosystem that reliably forms human expertise and judgment”

Excited to share a link to my latest article in JSNT. Despite the rhetoric, in Mark’s Gospel the disciples do not leave everything to follow Jesus. I trace this evidence and explore some of the ramifications for constructions of discipleship.

Journal for the Study of the New Testament - Volume 48, Number 3 Table of contents for Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 48, 3

Journal for the Study of the New Testament Vol. 48, No. 3 (2026) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jnta/48/3 Jesus, House, Family @sallydouglas.bsky.social

One of the most effective things you can do right now to fight Trump and ICE is to cancel your ChatGPT subscription.

(Belated) Photos from the launch of my new book Rewilding Prayer: God Beyond Gender, Faith Beyond Formulas.

Rewilding Prayer- Wipf and Stock Publishers Rewilding Prayer disrupts the idol of pretending that God is a man and upends the delusion that prayer is about wishful thinking, vending machines, or reciti...

Rewilding Prayer is half price until the end of November.
Use the code: CONFSHIP

wipfandstock.com/979838524722...

Please, liberal Christians, read Eugene Peterson I’m not too proud to...

Please liberal Christians read Eugene Peterson www.christiancentury.org/features/ple...

Rewilding Prayer is now available:
wipfandstock.com/979838524722...

To Listen and Respond: Dialogue as Feminist Method Our Annual ACFT Conference (including the Janette Gray RSM Lecture 2025) will take place 7-8 November 2025. All are welcome.

For our Australian members close to Melbourne BUT there are online options too for international folks who are further away (or in different time zones...):
events.humanitix.com/to-listen-an...

Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

A glimpse of the cover of my new book REWILDING PRAYER, with hearty thanks to designer Mike Surber from Cascade Books.

It is on the way…

Kimmel missed the point: In America, the left and right have become one The more politics becomes a series of do-or-die existential battles in which the ends justify all manner of means, the more it moves from democracy towards war.

www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

This!

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

"The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair," Gisela Salim-Peyer writes of her experience growing up in Venezuela:

Beautiful - drawn from the Wisdom of Solomon 7

So am I. Fellow New Testament scholars, how might we build alliances across the globe to protect our work from AI harvesting?
@sblsite.bsky.social

Uncomfortable with the idea that Jesus died for our sins?

In the New Testament other understandings of salvation are not only present, they are more dominant.

My latest (open access) article explores one of these and its potency in our stormy world:

unitingchurchstudies.org.au/index.php/uc...

“The greatest reason to take AI doomers seriously is not because it appears more likely that tech companies will soon develop all-powerful algorithms … Rather, it is that a tiny number of individuals are shaping an incredibly consequential technology with very little public input or oversight. “

Winter wattle

AI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped? Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that no-one will care.

“It’s like being asked to train up your own replacement – for free.” – @patrickstokes.com on #GenAI and #artists

www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

Fear is an attention hungry little liar “Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” - Luke 12

Fear is an attention hungry little liar thecorners.substack.com/p/fear-is-an...

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

A strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era, @cwarzel.bsky.social argues. “It seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.”

C237 Pentecost 11 Sally and Monica are back again to refelect on Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm71:1-6; Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17.   

bythewell.com.au/episodes/c23...

“… such acts, multiplied across a society, can quietly erode the foundations of power. Arendt admired such acts not for their spectacle but for their stubbornness.”

Thanks for sharing @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and thanks for writing @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social

“I see politeness* as today’s punk rock because it so transgresses the spirit of our times . . . It is the ultimate exercise in freedom: the freedom to be the person I want to be in the face of a cultural tyranny.” Arthur C Brooks

*and I would add proactive kindness

C234 Pentecost 8 Howard and Sally does Hosea 11.1-11, Psalm 107.1-9, 43, Colossians 3.1-11(12), Luke 12.13-21. They explore the imagery of God as parent in Hosea, new life in Christ in Colossians and the parable of th...

Good to explore the lectionary readings for Sunday with Old Testament scholar Howard Wallace on the By the Well podcast: bythewell.com.au/episodes/c23...

Kiasmos - what a joy-full gig in Melbourne.
@olafurarnalds.bsky.social
@kiasmos.music-social.com

By the Well Religion & Spirituality Podcast · Updated Daily · By the Well is a weekly lectionary-based podcast for preachers. Each week we take a deep dive into some of the texts from the Revised Common Lectionar...

Good to explore this week’s readings with my excellent colleague, Old Testamant scholar, Monica Melanchthon:

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...