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Strange Stories of the Bible: Part II - Blue Flower Arts Why did the writers who wrote texts that we now call biblical write those stories? What did they know about the human condition? What were their artistic interests?  Following on from last year’s expl...

Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama reads the Bible.

Deeply grounding, clear-eyed, and pragmatically hopeful. This is a MUST listen.

Graphic of the cycle of abuse: 1) tensions build, 2) incident, 3) reconciliation. 4) calm.

Now with alt text.

Thank you Wil Gafney @wilgafney.bsky.social for your generous and thoughtful endorsement of Trans Biblical — available now from Westminster John Knox Press!
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(Go to the book’s page on wjkbooks.com for the full reviews, from Dr Gafney and other esteemed colleagues)

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST keep all your shenanigans in one place

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said,

"The power of the people is greater than the people in power."

This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward.

“I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now.

Here:

Something to think about

Neurodivergence is Not a Moral Defect Mere hours after the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services on February 13, the White House released an Executive Order entitled “Establishing the Preside…

"I shouldn’t have to dredge up a passage from the Babylonian Talmud in order to prove that neurodivergent people are not moral defectives and that we deserve to have the support we need."

Check out my piece on neurodivergence, MAHA, and moral stigma in @nursingclio.bsky.social:

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The Forerunners and Heirs of Origen's Hexapla | V&R eLibrary

Open access vol on Hexapla !! www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/book/10....

The Biblical Wilderness and Liminality The biblical wilderness is often spoken of as a liminal place/space. Here’s why: Robert L Cohn in his book The Shape of Sacred Space: Four Biblical Studies (Scholars Press, 1981) notes the wo…

The Biblical Wilderness and Liminality

Black poster with magic bowl featuring cute demon, with event info = “The Aramaic Incantation Bowls: From Literacy to Materiality”Workshop with Simcha Gross (Univ. of Pennsylvania; visitor in Spring 2025 at the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies)

3/5 @simchagross.bsky.social master class on magic bowls!
An overview of the bowl corpus + key avenues for future research, incl so-called pseudo-script bowls, issues of literacy & materiality, the performative dimensions ancientstudies.harvard.edu/events?trumb...

grateful to be among the collaborators in this timely teach-in event against transphobia on March 4, co-organized by Karri Whipple Alldredge @karrialldredge.bsky.social and Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social !!

please share, circulate, sign-up, and strategize!!

Everyone should read and learn this. Memorize it and use it to help your traveling companions.

FWIW, I've successfully used "I won't say anything else without a lawyer present"--as a brown man with a Latine last name--at an internal checkpoint & they let me go almost immediately.

Increased AI use linked to eroding critical thinking skills A study by Michael Gerlich at SBS Swiss Business School has found that increased reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) tools is linked to diminished critical thinking abilities. It points to cognit...

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Different ways to measure research impact (opinion) Kenneth N. McKay outlines a wide range of indicators you can use to measure the impact of your research beyond the standard measures.

Career Advice | Measuring Impact, Beyond Publications

Kenneth N. McKay outlines a wide range of indicators you can use to measure the impact of your research beyond the standard measures. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40W1xeQ

We Have Always Been Here A Guest Post By Erev-Rabbi Benjamin Luks-Morgan

NEW: Guest post from almost-Rabbi Ben Luks-Morgan:

"We who transition into new names, new identities we have always been here in Jewish being and text.

Transgender people have always been here. Queer people. Those who don’t quite fit the normative boundaries of Self-- have always been here."

Book Review: The Neurological Roots of 'Sinful' Behavior In “Seven Deadly Sins,” neurologist Guy Leschziner explores the science behind Dante’s greatest transgressions.

This looks fascinating: a neurological perspective on the "Seven Deadly Sins"

Black Women Teach Us How to Divest from Inerrancy, Infallibility, and Patriarchal Leadership A reading list for people who question dominant models of biblical interpretation and church leadership

Must read. We keep trying to tell you. #CriticalBible drchanequa.substack.com/p/black-wome...

American exceptionalism is when you post something about American histories of eugenics, racism, disability and asylums and people respond with Nazi comparisons. The Nazis actually studied and looked to American eugenics for inspiration and collaboration.
This is YOUR history.
Look it in the eye.

How Are Race and Ethnicity Constructed in the New Testament? - Bible Odyssey The ways in which race and ethnicity are constructed in the Bible makes a difference for how contemporary readers engage the biblical text.

"The ways in which race and ethnicity are constructed in the Bible makes a difference for how contemporary readers engage the biblical text." Read Gay L. Byron's article. #BlackHistoryMonth buff.ly/3t6HRbo

The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text This new translation into English seeks to introduce the reader to the character of the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, while emphasising the fundamental differences between it and the Masoretic ...

Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

The Ghosts of Empire SYMPOSIUM at YALE UNIVERSITY Friday, January 31, 2025 Yale MACMILLAN CENTER European Studies Council

TOMORROW! The Ghosts of Empire Symposium at Yale looks at the haunting and ghostly traces of empires—Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman, US-American, etc.—as they move in and across various geographical and temporal zones.

Conference schedule: macmillan.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Never believe that anti- Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

The Lying Pen of Scribes Project: An Appreciation Over the last few years, I have had a number of occasions to mention The Lying Pen of Scribes, a project on the Dead Sea Scrolls funded by the Research Council of Norway. In fact, it may not be qui…

The Lying Pen of Scribes Project: An Appreciation

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