“The Reverend Dr. Gabrielle Rachael Thomas named as the next Dean and President of Berkeley. She will also serve as Associate Dean of Yale Divinity School. Gabrielle will assume office on July 1, 2026, after Andrew McGowan retires after 12 years of exceptional service.”
26.02.2026 14:06 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 5Such wonderful news! So happy for you - and the British New Testament scene!
26.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Available now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!
22.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 3
Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard.
Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".
entirely deliberate timing
19.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two new studies deepen our understanding of the link between motherhood & labour market outcomes:
1) shows the link between motherhood penalties and broader gender inequality
2) explores how motherhood penalties are stratified
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/two-new...
Ramadan Mubarak!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
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A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
15.02.2026 08:30 — 👍 336 🔁 263 💬 15 📌 1Wine moms with Molotov cocktails is now the moderate position on ICE.
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The Church of England is developing a reparative justice scheme in recognition of its complicity in trans-Atlantic slavery. Project Spire has been attacked in Parliament and the right wing press with claims of flawed historical research. What’s the truth?
alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...
Why do pedophiles rule the world? Not just elite impunity. It's impunity for rape. It's our whole culture enabling it at every level. It wasn't about the most beautiful women in the world abused by Weinstein, it's not just the rich as prolific abusers. It's an indictment of the whole social order.
03.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 192 🔁 58 💬 6 📌 2
for those looking for a temporary reprieve from *waves hands at everything*, i’ll be giving a paper on a new project at birmingham’s biblical studies seminar on 18 Feb at 11am ET.
the paper’s entitled, “the enslaved seer: slavery and literate labour in the book of revelation.” DM for the zoom link!
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
A screenshot of the URC’s HMD post which includes antisemitic tropes.
As well as reporting the post, can I suggest those who are rightly appalled by this post from the URC contact them directly: urc.org.uk/contact-us/
28.01.2026 12:00 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Need distractions from the horrors? Read this amazing article by Kassie Miller on menstrual suppression in Imperial Rome www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
27.01.2026 20:11 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
27.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 23469 🔁 7823 💬 331 📌 883There should be a one-month moratorium on new work. Just give everyone the month of February to do the things they are already doing. Nothing new. No additional projects. No new initiatives. No requests. Any email asking someone to do something is automatically rejected and replaced with a cat gif.
25.01.2026 09:23 — 👍 121 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 3As clergy pray, arrests begin
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The AAR has awarded the 2026 Martin Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion to @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social of Religion for Breakfast fame. Never has an award been so richly deserved!
aarweb.org/news/andrew-...
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.
16.01.2026 11:57 — 👍 36 🔁 58 💬 1 📌 2Night night, Daddy. Sleep tight. See you in the morning bright.
16.01.2026 20:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
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Reminder: applications open for a funded doctoral position (2026-2929) with me at Campion Hall, University of Oxford.
For those working in the field of ECOTHEOLOGY via systematic, political or applied theology approaches.
See here:
lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/news/applica...
This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.
21.12.2025 05:53 — 👍 333 🔁 66 💬 4 📌 1O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
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📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money?
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to jecs.editor@gmail.com by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Excellent #joyforall resources from the Centre for the Study of the Bible and Violence designed to support local churches in responding to the co-option of Christmas by the far right www.csbvbristol.org.uk/joy-for-all/...
05.12.2025 21:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Love this!!!!
05.12.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@jhoover04.bsky.social
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