Seth Holloway

Well, at least we just got a new Gorillaz album

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.

One of the best explanations of what is happening (that I have read in a long time). Thank you, @brockm.bsky.social

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

(going into the criterion closet and just asking repeatedly “where the fuck is Hot Rod?”)

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social or @pattonoswalt.bsky.social would be lovely in equal measure

Didn't have the book in front of me, so I looked it up via Good Reads. Exactly right, Fr. Greg Boyle:

In your struggles with your abuse, fight to remember that God’s people act sometimes in ways that tell you lies about who He is. He is and always will be the God of the millstone for those who abuse and a tender Shepherd for those abused.

This struck me.

Colbert on Christian nationalism: “This is not a Catholic nation because the Catholic Church is not about nations.”

🎙: The Spiritual Life podcast with @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social

I told the mycelia about you and it wanted me to tell you to not worry about today. They said “just absorb nutrients for now, you’ll grow big mushrooms later when the weather is right and your roots are ready”

The length of the grieving is determined by the griever, not by how long you, as a comforter, can stand to be sad. Your work is to be with them where they are, not drag them out where you are more comfortable.

You can always tell how much a community hates queerness by how shitty the coffee shop options are

I invented a game. It’s called 4 x 3.

It’s like connections except that there are three words in each category, there are four categories, and one word is in all four categories.

Easy mode is when you know the special word. Hard is when you don’t.

And does so without a hint of self awareness.

How Donald Trump Is Teaching Christians to Abandon Empathy The head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says that empathy is “used politically in ways that are very destructive and manipulative.”

In which Al Mohler essentially argues 'empathy for me and mine but not thee and thine'. Wild.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Best Way to Love Elon Musk? Protest Him The Tesla Takedown is a clear example of following Jesus’ command to love enemies.

"What do you do when the richest man in the world buys his way into the government and starts using that role to hurt people?"

Please know that I read this in Matt Berry's voice

Why Are Christian Colleges Fighting Culture Wars? Fear Instead of fighting culture wars, Christian institutions could attend to the faithful transformation of the next generation, and John Hawthorne knows how.

In this week's edition of the Reconstruct, Mitchell Atencio talks with John Hawthorne, a former educator looking at a different path that Christian colleges can take in guiding the next generation.

The Clock of the Long Now The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit encouraging imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next & last 10,000 years — or the long now.

longnow.org/clock/

Been increasingly trying to focus on the work and words of Rick Steves, Krista Tippet, and Fred Rogers recently

Sharing mostly for my therapist friends from Xian backgrounds (or have Jewish/Xian clients) and might be interested in this interpretation (which is new to me) of the Joseph story and it's implications for trauma-informed family systems therapy. If you listen to this, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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If you're on the continual search for alternatives to the services of major tech corps, may I point you to @thestorygraph.com as an alternative to Goodreads?

This is a small black-owned business with a freemium model, a similar feel and function to GR, and no affiliation with Amz.

A lot of d-phones also have wifi hotspots. All that's to say that by experimenting, I found a system that gave me the best of both devices and, most importantly, the choice of when/how I engage with them. Admittedly, I do already lead a bit of an analogue life though (physical calendar, etc)

While first using the d-phone, I also realized that if I needed s-phone capabilities, I could simply bring both phones along. I had my d-phone for calls/texts and began to view the s-phone simply as the tiny computer it is--a tool to be grabbed for specific tasks at specific times.

It might be difficult but worth the experiment! A lot of dumbphones are (were?) pretty cheap--I got mine used on eBay and decided to try it out for a couple weeks to see if it was doable for me. If it wasn't, going back was just a matter of swapping the SIM (and being out 50$).

If you're looking for some alternative programming tomorrow, I'll be on All Things Considered along with two other biblical scholars talking about MAGA messianic exegesis.

Not quite the same, but I got a dumb phone a while ago but keep a smartphone as well. I swap the SIM between them based on what I need in a given season. It's been great to have the freedom of choice.