mattie mae motl

SO EXCITED!!!!

see everyone in boston!!!!

#SBL2025 #AnnualSBL2025

last night, i turned in my probationary review— the first big step of my PhD journey! i am so happy and proud of myself.

can you believe that i just read the color purple for the first time this past week?? one of the most beautiful stories i've ever read. and the theology was so beautiful. #literature #thecolorpurple #theology

hey, sorry that i am openly weeping in this cafe. the soundtrack of the 1994 Little Women came on and i started thinking about Beth's death. this is a regular occurrence, so please mind your business.

i just finished animal farm and i need wes anderson to adapt the book in the same style as fantastic mr. fox + isle of dogs

(i am not reading these in any particular order, and i will continue to read books that are not on this list! that's why i am giving myself the next four years)

i spent the morning compiling a list of classic lit i want to read before i am thirty. i am currently reading #25/100-- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. what do you think of my list??

i'm about to start writing my very first chunk of the dissertation. i have so many complicated feelings-- overwhelmed, inadequate, thrilled, anxious, grateful.

“tiktok.”

#tiktokban #censorship #america #poetry #freespeech

26 today and growing more pretentious by the minute!!!! ♥️♥️♥️

bday hikes in scotland have highland cows :)

get that sexy goldfish out of my face

i finished 1984 by orwell today, and it wasn't... that... good? it was just too "preachy." great message, great intent-- just poor execution, imho.

Headed to a meeting with my supervisors. Five months and I still get giddy that I get to do this!

Does anyone have access to this article that they would be willing to pass along?

“Doing Gender” by Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman (1987) (Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 125-151).

'The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story' | Review The idea of God's mind changing implies that it was initially set on exclusion. And if God’s mercy can be widened, then God’s mercy was at one point narrower.

Here's a book review that I wrote on The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story by Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays.

i will never get tired of this view

Do not read Philo when you have a hangover. Philo is not a suitable hangover cure. He will only make your headache and nausea worse.

The Christianity Today Book Awards - Christianity Today Let’s say you want to write a book. You’ve got a captivating story to tell or a compelling argument to make. You’ve got a gift with words. That’s a good start! But there are other things you (probably...

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EXACTLY. With great power (library funding) comes great responsibility.

Honored to say that our little book won the Award of Merit in the Bible and Devotional category in the 2024 Christianity Today Book Awards! So thrilled and honored!

To whomever studies Biblical Masculinities at St Andrews after me, you're welcome for ordering all of these books for the library. That was me. 🤣

Thank you Michelle! One of your protege's has become my office mate and bestie here-- Riane. :)

Moving to another country is, in some ways, as glamorous as it sounds. But it is also constant paper work, chat rooms, and listening to hold music for hours on end. I just want to do my silly little PhD reading. 😭

I made a mini-thanksgiving dinner for my family last night. I don't feel traditionally "southern" in a lot of ways, but cooking a meal with lots of butter, carbs, and brown sugar for the people I love really connects me to my Arkansan roots.

I just received this gift from my parents. I have cried like five times since opening it! Thecla means the world to me as a woman in Pauline studies. Her example of faithfulness, courage, and audacity inspired me to be the scholar I am today.

"Paul, the Invisible Man" in New Testament Masculinities

"Not surprisingly, those who have written about Paul, almost all of them men, have not usually given a moment’s thought to the masculinity of Paul; presumably they have all been too busy writing books about Paul to think very much about their own masculinity either." - David J.A. Clines 🤣

what's your favorite ancient gender convention? mine has to be that women were considered to be stinky and leaky. so much so, that men would boast of their constipation by comparing their poops to arid little pebbles. men have always been silly.