Alexiana Fry

Students in front of laptops looking at a PowerPoint on the big screen in front, that says “golah, Golah, Golah, Golah” (2:6)

Had the best time on Thursday presenting for the Biblical Studies Research Seminar with some solid students and staff @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Thanks for the pic (where I blocked out some forthcoming news), @themattiemae.bsky.social! 💕

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

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New issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 144, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55656 @sblpress.bsky.social @sblsite.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social

IVE GOT NO TACO BELL BECAUSE DENMARK SO YEAH IM JUST DEPRIVED.

Listen: there was a Taco Bell at the airport but it was closed when we arrived and I am devastated.

A facade of Gyeongbokgung palace, featuring Kelly green paint with bright colorful flowers and motifs.

A table full of Korean food prepared by family.

A small keychain of a Sanrio frog with glasses and an ice cream cone being held by a hand in front of a gacha machine

Seoul was an absolute dream. Ten whole days of a full belly and heart with family in Korea 🇰🇷and I am beyond refreshed. Now to tackle the email inbox.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

The former Marine accused of killing four people in a fiery attack on a Michigan church held a deep grudge against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to two lifelong friends and other people who knew him. The animosity, the friends said, stemmed from a breakup with a religious girlfriend over a decade ago and led the man to rant about the church at his best friend’s wedding, refer to it as the Antichrist and, just days before the attack, spew invective against Mormons to a canvassing politician.

the one constant in mass shootings is the prevalence of misogyny/domestic violence/hatred toward women:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

I'm really excited to be convening the Hebrew Bible /Old Testament seminar this term. We have a brilliant line-up of international and national speakers coming to Oxford with research focused on the theme of Trauma and the Hebrew Bible!

Check out this online class by @alexianafry.bsky.social taking place Saturday, September 27, from 12–1:30pm ET. Registration: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

another set of department closures at another public flagship. i'm from WV; my heart breaks every time because i *know* what that means for students like me and my high school friends.

full disclosure: i went to college out of state to a country club school with lots of money for scholarships. 1/?

Your outie plays the marimba for six month old Pygmy hippos.

"Scout’s story feels similar to discussions about dissociation by both trauma theorists and mental health practitioners as well as among biblical scholars, specifically regarding Ezek 24:15–27." Alexiana Fry

Read "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" by Alexiana Fry in #JBL144.2 by logging in with your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

The day before we found out from the President himself that actually political violence is unacceptable the Supreme Court said it’s legal for masked men to bust your car window and snatch you away from your family for having the wrong skin color.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

SpongeBob is looking yaasified with the text saying “me whenever I’m right about something”

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Thrilled to be the "teacher" for @theb4np.bsky.social's September class called "Shaped By Suffering: How Trauma Impacts the Bible and Its Readers." Join me on Saturday, September 27th at 12P EST: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...

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GOOD MONDAY MORNING! AVAR 3.2 has three articles, from
@alexianafry.bsky.social, Jacob Dahl, Robert Miller II, and Jonathon Riley. avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

a girl with reddish hair but definitely her roots are well grown out, hair messy, in a light blue green romper, in a chair with a green sheepskin jacket is sitting in front of her screens - one a laptop, the other a big ol' screen, with her hand on a pink mouse next to a pink and white keyboard. She has a printed out copy of her manuscript to her left on the desk, and her references section to her right. There are A TON of tchochkes on her desk because she likes them.

I'm not sorry that this is what I chose to do to begin my day.

James Dobson, Burn in Hell - Lawyers, Guns & Money James Dobson is dead. Finally. This awful homophobe made the world a significantly worse place by his living in it. His brand of hate was tremendously influential in the modern Republican Party. Futur...

Burn in Hell James Dobson, you complete fascist child abusing misogynist homophobic scumbag.

Here's a quick 4,000 word obit that really lays out the truth about him.

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/jame...

God damnit. I’m so sorry, Shaily.

Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...

University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...