Kayko Driedger Hesslein

So grateful to be attending the Association of Theological Schools Women in Leadership event in Toronto, with women presidents, dean, and leaders in theological education.

Are we pretending this isn’t what it looks like? Again?

Completely apart from the content of the article, this is just such awful writing. It reads like a social media post written for dramatic effect. Can we please have journalists who can write in paragraphs? I need the news to give me information, not elicit an emotion.

Nationally or just particular states?

Is this not a regular thing for SBL? I don’t think there has been a single year when AAR has *not* extended the deadline.

I’m sorry to hear that. 💕

This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 6.7 About 1 of every 99 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 474,800-587,200 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: HIGH; 7.4X higher Long COVID: HIGH; 5.8X higher Hospitalizations: HIGH; 6.5X higher Deaths: HIGH; 6.3X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

Canadian COVID Forecast Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026

CANADA

HIGH [no change]

About 1 of every 99 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 7.4 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.8 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 6.5 x higher
-Deaths: 6.3 x higher

Your regular reminder that bad theology (in this case dispensational fundamentalism) quite literally kills.

You shall not take the name of your Lord God in vain.

Did CENTCOM just use a non-binary pronoun??

To be sure, there are some (albeit rare) exceptions whom God has especially exempted, in that some are unsuited for married life, or others God has released by a high, supernatural gift so that they can maintain chastity outside of marriage.

When you realize that Luther didn’t just validate asexuality, he said it was a God-given gift! Luther’s Large Catechism, Sixth Commandment.

Ha that’s funny. I need to use that for class.

I also require my students to wear masks when we have in-person class together.

Samson? Is that you?

Einstein isn’t going to like it when he fails my theology classes because he can’t actually do critical thinking. (With all due respect to the actual Einstein.)

-N.K. Jemisin
-Ursula K. LeGuin
-Octavia Butler
-Margaret Atwood
-L. M. Montgomery

This. And creating a closed LLM that reconstitutes your old sermons is not good either. Faith is a living relationship - every sermon is a living dialogue between the preacher and the listeners. Using AI is contaminating the relationship - a form of adultery. There’s a commandment about that.

A step forward for non/anti-supersessionist liturgies. Very thankful for all those who continue to do this work.

As I review an article for submission that has fake citations and appears to be AI-generated, I have come to the conclusion that publishers need to start black-balling any scholar who submits AI-generated work. Just start blacklists. It's getting out of hand. #academicsky

A picture of the nine kings of men from the movie Lord of the Rings. They are all white and old. Underneath are words that say Alberta’s Nine Referendum Questions.

1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. No. 6. No. 7. No. 8. No. 9. No.

A picture of the nine kings of men from the movie Lord of the Rings. They are all white and old. Underneath are words that say Alberta’s Nine Referendum Questions.

Born in Alberta and I’m voting no to all nine.

An impressive and wide-ranging group of clergy, some of whom I know. Barmen Declaration 2.0? Don’t say we dont learn from history, 💕

My hero.

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

To be honest, as a Canadian, I was very confused!

Just a friendly note that it's only appropriate to use "Rest in power" for African-Americans, as we are doing with Jesse Jackson. It's from the African-American tradition and not appropriate to use for someone like Robert Duvall. We would say Rest in peace to be more culturally respectful.

Now I want to know what falls under "other." Being related to the Dean? Giving lots of money to the school? Being a robot? Bribes? By babysitting my dog? There are so many options here.

I feel like maybe they don’t quite know the history of punk?

Very interesting!