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PhD @PTRBirmingham | Visiting Fellow @SJC_College | Winnipeg Enthusiast | In a war on automobiles.
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I have no idea how I'm supposed to preach on Sunday.
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If you’re a Christian and somehow just finding out about the Indian Residential School genocide and your first instinct is to minimize or deny that the Church could do this, just stop and take a minute. I study this every day, it’s every bit as bad and worse than you’ve heard.
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This is heinous blasphemy:
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Remember Christians, when you serve the poor, you are not Christ to them, the poor are Christ to you.
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You can’t proclaim the resurrection gospel and teach that the last enemy to be defeated is death while actively killing people in your church. Damn this.
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Oh no, the Christians have decided that various NT prohibitions of “pharmakeia” is a secret code of warning against vaccines.
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Guys, what obscure medieval theologian should I rebrand my entire identity around?
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One of the major reasons I dropped out of my MDiv in sem was because all my profs and mentors said it was impossible, as a pastor, to be friends with your congregation. I couldn’t accept that as true.
What do pastors think about this? What were you taught?
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Why is biblical literacy so bad in so many churches?
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@PnPCBC
@AndrewScheer
BRB just checking to see if my kids are privileged enough to have their tuition payed by the
@CPC_HQ
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One of the most heartbreaking things in my life is discovering how few people are actually curious about stuff.
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The reason Jesus said that man cannot live on bread alone is because he knew that pizza was coming down the pipeline and didn’t want to keep us from that.
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One of the things that attracted me to Anglicanism was the BCP, but then I discovered that most Anglicans are actually embarrassed of it, so there's that.
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Imagine if the Queen’s “Jubilee” was celebrated by the royal family making restitution to all their former colonies. Might actually be worthy of the name then.
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So... I think I just submitted this thing? Will see if it actually went through in the morning I guess. But it's in God's* hands now.
*My examiners.
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Increasingly convinced that bikes are the future for the majority of our transport needs. Ebikes will make this even more of a reality.
When it comes to urban transportation & the
#ClimateCrisis
, here’s the order
#COP26
should be focusing on:
1. Walking/mobility aids
2. Biking/E-Biking
3. Public transit
4. Electric cars
Here’s the order they ARE focussing on:
1. Electric cars
2. Electric cars
3. Electric cars
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Lol at Gideon “refusing” the monarchy and then naming his son Abimelech.
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Post 👏 modernism 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a👏 threat 👏 or 👏 enemy 👏of 👏 Christianity!👏
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I think church leaders and theologians massively underestimated the impact of having all that weird puritan/calvinist/old princeton school stuff get packaged into Logos and made widely available for folks in the pews.
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Weirdly, my political theology is actually aimed at answering the question of how Christians in Canada can avoid becoming American.
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Evangelicals like to say things like “from a biblical point of view” or “biblically speaking” or other similar locutions. When did this start? I don’t really see this kind of language much in older theology. Is this a 20th c invention?
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The Jesus of History is no match for the Jesus of Calgary.
You cheapen the sacrifice of Jesus on Calgary by elevating your trauma, pain and victim-hood over the power of the cross.
THE BLOOD OF JESUS IS ENOUGH.🩸
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I think I've lost the plot on why we do theology. Like, what's the point of all of this?
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Logging back on just to announce that I've landed a job as the new Diocesan Discipleship Developer for Rupert's Land. Going to be based at St John's College at the University of Manitoba and will be overseeing all things theological ed, discipleship, and formation related.
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I can’t stop laughing at this.
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Not gonna lie, I really like the tradition that Moses was Plato's teacher.
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How are there still people not using citation software?
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Rachel: How long do we have to keep these ashes on for them to work?
Me: what do you think they do?
R: I dunno how this high church stuff works!?
M: Ashes aren’t high church
R: I’m a Mennonite, anything that makes us have to go to church on a Wednesday is high church to me.
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When I first started attending an Anglican church it was for the Sunday evening service and there was a stack of service booklets beside a sign that said, "Enter into the silence of God." Going into that darkened, silent church saved my faith in seminary.
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Thanks for liking and sharing. If you want you can contribute to the work of the Indigenous Anglican church’s work in my diocese by getting in touch with Vince Solomon here:
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@tagaq
Urban foresters planted mostly male trees to avoid "mess" from the seeds of female trees, and so every spring cities are flooded with pollen. So literally, patriarchy is making us all allergic to trees.
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Them: "What do you do"
Me, vaguely: "Oh I'm finishing up a phd"
Them: "In what?"
Me *panicking*: "Theology and religion"
Them: "What area of theology?"
Me, visibly shaken: "Well, there's places, right? And bodies communicate with each other, and like, colonialism is a problem..."
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How about an anti-hoarding task force for landlords? “Hi, yes we see you own multiple properties, this is hoarding, and it makes our public commons unliveable, please disperse these homes to those who need them.”
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Holy Saturday is for prison abolition ✊⛓️
It really is kind of wild that this is the day on the liturgical calendar where Jesus goes to hell and abolishes metaphysical prison.
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Today's main character is like if somebody came to life out of a Flannery O'Connor story. Is confronted square in the face with a display grace and violently rejects it instead.
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@DrNSearle
@kovacsjulie
I had a paper accepted in June that was supposed to come out in fall but still isn’t out because the journal is in chaos. So that means there’s a gap in my publishing but not because I didn’t write.
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@michelemeybelle
@Life_Disrupted
@timothycrisps
Had the same thing happen to me, except I'm from Canada, so the UKIPer said, "You don't count as an immigrant, you're from the colonies." I was speechless.
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Anglicans, smugly saying “sacramental worldview” as an explain-all doesn’t actually mean anything.
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Imagine wasting being 30 on making money. I read books and drink coffee all day.
I'm 30 years old.
And I run a $200M portfolio of businesses.
This is my daily routine:
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A Modest Proposal: Churches sell every bit of property they own and fund reparations. After all, you're always telling me that "the church is the people."
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K, I know fundamentalism sucks, but I actually really appreciated being forced to memorize so much of the bible and I really wish we could convince the rest of the church that this is good actually.
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The worst part of being a phd student is that you’re literally thinking about a particular set of problems 24/7, but when you try and explain yourself to friends and family they don’t understand why these things are even problems.
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Build more protected bike lanes.
QUESTION: In 5 words or less, what do you think is the most important thing that cities should be doing to ensure their success after the
#Covid_19
global pandemic is “over” (in whatever form that takes)?
#CitiesAfterCovid
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Remember when evangelicals in politics meant Jimmy Carter?
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The worst, laziest, stupidest habit Christian preachers/theologians have is making some point about literally anything by contrasting that to "the culture." Like, it's just a completely idiotic thing to say.
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Is it not a bit odd that a cutting edge discussion in biblical studies is just the discovery that Jesus and his disciples were in fact Jews? What went wrong here, as a discipline, to make this what we’re just realizing now?
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What if we just said, ok, for 100 years, nobody is allowed to talk about or read Aquinas, Calvin, Luther, Hooker, or Barth. Wonder if we'd come up with some cool ideas maybe?
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When did the bar get raised so high for entry into academia? I still occasionally find CVs of profs who've been around forever who don't have as much published work as most grad students I know. Was there a specific event that triggered all this?
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I’ll never forget the time I put milk in my tea while it was still steeping and my British roommate yelled, “OMG are you a psychopath?”
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True story: my priest once put me on a committee to raise funds for refugees. He told me in no uncertain terms that I had "a moral obligation to bilk the rich." And proceeded to tell me that the rich are in grave spiritual danger due to their hoarded wealth.
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Alright friends, going to deactivate later tonight and stay off here until I submit my phd. Hopefully see you all in the fall.
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New academic achievement unlocked: getting a rejection for a submission to an event I’m helping organize. Ash Wednesday hitting a little late this year, I see.
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Pay attention to this thread. When I was 19, I was expressing my discomfort or disagreement with some feminist theology I’d been reading and my prof looked at me across the table and said, “But have you made yourself vulnerable to the argument, Ryan?”
I remember that everyday.
You cannot simply disagree with black liberation theology without reading grotesque firsthand accounts of lynching in America. You cannot simply dismiss Gustavo Gutierrez without providing a fully thought out answer to the plight of the poor and marginalized. You cannot critique
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Pro-tip to students, if you're going to copy and paste, at least make sure the font and font colour matches the rest of your work.
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Sure the UK has its problems, but where else can you get a flight of pie and ale?
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Visiting here when I was 19 was an absolute revelation about what was possible.
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
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Remember last year when people were clearing the bike lanes themselves and the city shut them down because there is a by-law specifically forbidding Winnipeggers from clearing public-access pathways?
FYI - Cape Bretons sidewalk snow & ice removal policy - “ You are encouraged to clear the sidewalk around your property.”
In Wpg - City clears all 4,672 km of sidewalks & pathways! Privileged. Spoiled. Lucky. Call it what you will~thank goodness we have city services 2 plough!
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Once again begging Christian theologians to actually know what original sin is and isn’t before dismissing it. Otherwise it’s just dunking on Augustine by agreeing with Augustine. Which is a mood, to be sure, but also very silly.
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I don't get the psalms. Do people who like them actually read them, or is it just something you're supposed to like? In my recent research, it seems like it's always the psalms that people are quoting to justify colonial violence, and like, I just can't shake that.
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I think the thing that too many theologians ignore is that Christian doctrine can in principle be worked out through any metaphysical system. Just because it was worked out through an engagement with classical metaphysics doesn't mean that's the only way it can be done.
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So Rowan Williams has another new book coming out this spring. Am I doomed to just keep giving that man money for the rest of my life?
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So who else wasn’t allowed to watch “the Simpsons” as a kid?
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@theodramatist
One of the big stressors we’ve been dealing with in older youth and young adults is eco-anxiety. Not sure how a church can totally address this, but I think it needs to be a pretty important part of the conversation.
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Can somebody explain the πíστiς Xρiστoȗ debate to me like I'm an idiot?
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I really do worry that neoliberalism has so medicalized mental health that we've completely lost sight of its material causes.
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Doing my PhD at distance during a pandemic simply wouldn’t have been possible without the Internet Archive. They can’t lose.
What’s at stake if we lose this lawsuit? Online research from a century of older sources.
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Just a pro-tip, if you find yourself defending really morally vile stuff to be consistent with whatever axiomatic principles you hold about God or reality or whatever, that's actually a good indication that you're just wrong and need to rethink things.
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Jesus literally warned us about exactly this.
An unoccupied house on stilts in Rodanthe, North Carolina, as it collapses into the ocean this afternoon.
Was worth $381,200 according to Zillow.
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Weird that evangelicals are getting into social trinitarianism after Kate Sonderegger killed and buried it already.
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If I were to design a course in Canadian theology, who are the must-reads?
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@bethfelkerjones
Yeah, both of those moves seem to just leave pastors isolated, lonely, and self-destructive.
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I'm pretty worried that the linguistic turn in justice movements was a big mistake. It seems like we've educated an entire class into saying the right things, but that hasn't actually challenged any beliefs or practices.
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So we’re really just racing our way to a world where universities are just trades schools eh?
Terrible news from the University of Kent: "we have taken the decision to phase out Anthropology, Art History, Health & Social Care, Journalism, Music & Audio Technology, and Philosophy/Religious Studies"
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Sometimes people ask me what my PhD is about. From now on I'll tell them it's about me holding these two books together and saying "Now kiss".
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My dad just sent me some carbon soil data he's been collecting. In just four years under rotational grazing management he sequestered the equivalent of 363 Canadian's annual carbon footprint.
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The good gents on my recent whisky thread convinced me that this would be my Christmas bottle.
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✨✨IT'S MEME MONDAY✨✨
Drop the most recent meme(s) in your camera roll!
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It's become so reflexive in theology to just dunk on Descartes (and most Enlightenment philosophers tbh) without bothering to read anything that I really think I should probably pivot to being a Descartes apologist, if only for the sake of encouraging Christian charity.
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