Phil King

Send me a note if you decide to come, spare bedroom in the 'Deen with your name on it...

Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. ' He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land." "Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13 The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, 4 and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 1 tells the story of a foreign people growing in power and the ruling nation oppressing them out of fear of the other.

Let the reader understand.

When I first left atheism behind, the biblical refrain to "fear God" was unsettling since why would we fear one who is love? In this age of Lidl-brand Caesars who think they can wage war with impunity, it has come to be among the easiest injunctions to understand in all of the Scriptures.

Read this:

a doctor is talking to another doctor and says bob kelso how ya doin .. ALT: a doctor is talking to another doctor and says bob kelso how ya doin ..

Weird, I was thinking this guy might also fit the bill...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Pretty sure that this kind of interpretation would fail literally any basic Intro to the Bible class. Lord, have mercy...

Will send asap

Any of the articles in particular you're looking for? Or shall I get as much as I can?

You still need this? I think I have access to this through Fuller...

As someone who just finished it for the first time...go with Lion...

Large language models? More like large loser models.

or as Eagleton's comrade at Slant (McCabe) put it:

“If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.”

Huge news...may the good work continue...

You might connect with Tommy Givens at Fuller, who has previously taught course titled "Jesus, the Church, and Violence" ?

@drempel.bsky.social not to ruin your morning...but...

Just when I had come down from my rage earlier this week fighting ChatGPT, I have this appear on my feed...and my hate for this evil monstrosity is rekindled once more...

Asking residents for entry permission would ‘kill’ the home invasion industry

“The role of the Christian in society is to shatter the false necessities and fatalities of violence.” — Jacques Ellul

Reviled for Jesus’ sake One of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate...

I love @philipchristman.bsky.social's writing and the clarity of this piece is blinding: 'one of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate us.'

www.christiancentury.org/voices/revil...

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It’s perfect.

Very proud of friend, old neighbour, and former classmate, Kat Armas, who penned the article His Holiness Leo XIV reposted some time ago...

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Google's imagined response to a bland idiom I made up - "the wren gets the last word" - which involves a definition, a cultural context, and a note about the symbolic representation of a phrase that does not exist in Hiberno-English.

I had heard that you can just make up a phrase, put it in inverted commas and add "meaning" to the query and Google "AI" will fantasize a definition and an entire cultural context. Vonnegut could not dream up shit and self-defeating as this.

Pope Francis wasn’t a “liberal.” His papacy can’t be understood with the liberal/conservative frame. He was pastoral in the model of a Jesuit spiritual director. The point of Christianity is a personal encounter with God in Jesus.

Rest in Peace, and Rise in Glory, dear Francis