mattie mae motl
@themattiemae
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she/her. mdiv. phd candidate @ st andrews. gender, sexuality, and masculinity in the NT.
Littleton, CO
Joined August 2014
hm…. anyway! graduated seminary today with not one, but two preaching awards!!! next stop… PhD!!!!
There’s no reason for women to go to Seminary.
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Conquerors Not Captives has won an Award of Merit in the Bible & Devotional category in the @CTmagazine 2024 Book Awards! 📖🎉 "[This book] will stretch your mental muscles." Congrats to @jrrdodson and @themattiemae! 🎉
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bad theology kills. bad theology kills. bad theology kills.
The Trevor Project reported a 700 percent increase in crisis calls from LGBTQ+ youth after the election. Let that sink in.
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WHY is the show making Jenn watch this proposal WHILE SITTING NEXT TO DEVIN this for real seems cruel. This feels mean. We easily could’ve watched this happen with her off-stage. Why are the producers treating her this way? #thebachelorette #bachelorette
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“This was outside the scope of this particular project.”
How do you say in academic: "I don't know"?
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if the goal of the pro-life movement was to reduce abortions it would support policies that have been proven to reduce abortions. but it’s simply about criminalizing people who get abortions
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Dear Christian, Stop feeding the outrage machine and feed the hungry. Stop defending your doctrine and defend the oppressed. Stop serving your ideologies and serve the poor. Stop loving conspiracy theories and love your neighbors.
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evangelicals: “the olympics mocked christianity” also evangelicals:
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It’s true that women don’t need to be a parent to have value, but it’s also true that Kamala Harris IS a parent. She’s been a stepmom for 10 years, her kids affectionately call her “Momala,” and she even officiated her stepson’s wedding last year. I’ve pastored blended families
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I see my role as an academic as a translator of sorts. I can wade through the complicated monographs and make those works more digestible/ understandable/relatable to the church. Instead of coming up with new ideas, we could focus on making the really old ideas accessible.
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I agree with all of the comments under this thread, but something that motivates me is the need for accessibility in scholarship. You’re right, a lot of these ideas aren’t new. But these perspectives often don’t make it from the ivory tower to the church pew.
Serious question for biblical scholars: considering how many thousands of people have written on every single word of the bible over 2 millenia, does it worry you that, statistically, all of your new theories are either wrong, or not new, or both? One reason i didn't do "OT"
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it’s a good day when both biden and a new episode of #HouseOfTheDragon drop in one day!
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At heart, I am a nerdy creative that does things like translating a poem from latin into english and then writing a Gen-Z version of that poem for fun. Inspired by “Cerinthus’ Birthday” by Sulpicia.
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