Anti-fascist Paulinista

Staggering statistics re: stevehofstetter on reddit

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left.

See? We just need to talk to each other.

Reports say that Donald Trump will forbid Venezuelans from letting María Corina Machado be their president due to his jealousy over Machado winning the Nobel Peace Prize—raising new concerns about the pettiness between Team Biden and Team Harris during the 2024 campaign.

“When Paul enjoins his community to behavior appropriate to people whose actions comprise ‘a living sacrifice’ (Rom 12:1), one assumes that they internalize this metaphor, experience their choices of action in terms of the metaphor, and develop a complex of ideas around the experience. In this way, the metaphor of sacrifice, as it relates to the moral life of the community, begins to take hold, not only as an idea or a tool for understanding, but as a lived reality.” —Jane Lancaster Patterson

Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians and Philippians by Jane Lancaster Patterson is $5.00 now through 14 Dec. Use code DECFLASH to purchase your copy. buff.ly/NNJ2Gsz

I have permanently deleted FB.

Test meme stating "This priest loves you," with the word "priest" in rainbow colors.

Christmas season can be difficult for many, especially around hurtful family dynamics or memories that are not filled with joy

Please know that you are loved

Opinion | How ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Presses Up Against the Limits of Empathy (Published 2024)

Thinking about media and politics this morning, film specifically, I want to encourage you to read this excellent piece on the limits of empathy using the example of Killers of the Flower Moon. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/o...

The Biblical Time Machine podcast this is hosted by Helen Bond, Professor of Christian origins at Edinburgh University, and Dave Roos, journalist and writer is a Bible Odyssey partner. You can find links to episodes and related articles on Bible Odyssey. tinyurl.com/5687w9dc

New article out on Mary Magdalene, Feminism, and Afropessimism. bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-21-no-1-...

Democrats are spending $20 million to learn how to talk to men. Here’s what they should do instead UC Law San Francisco professor Joan C. Williams offers far better advice into how Democrats can win back working-class voters rather than investing in the “Speaking with American Men” program.

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

All the sidebars included in the SBL Study Bible are listed on Bible Odyssey. Access the complete list with links for readers who would like to read the expanded articles on Bible Odyssey. tinyurl.com/576ec98e

The first Pope from Luther's order - the Augustinian Friars must be breathing a sigh of relief they're finally no longer blacklisted

Sorry hating Chicago Pizza is now a sin.

What's the best Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Bible?

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

Getting ready to teach @marika.bsky.social THEOLOGY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD tomorrow in my Revelation class. It's so good, y'all!

Read this with students this semester. Amazing!

Rector

Quick Search for our Seminary President. Feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested.

careers.callutheran.edu/postings/12409

even more locals:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

My hand holding a copy of “God’s Stories: As Told By God’s Children”

A photo of my hand holding the book open at my story, which is called “What is Better?”

I retold the story of Mary and Martha for @theb4np.bsky.social’s new children’s Bible and my author copy just arrived! Possibly the only kid-friendly exploration of the story in relation both to Marxist feminist and ancient mystical theological concerns. Get your copy at www.godsstoriesbook.com

Anyone in the bay area? Register: events.gtu.edu/event/811046...

Anyone else using Thriftbooks instead of Amazon these days? Any significant negatives?

Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...

Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it?

ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

If you have a book coming out in 2025, what is it?
Drop the title, link, picture, etc. below!

Help me set up my reading list for the next year!

It me. I was giving a paper at the English Language and Literature Association of Korea on Excessive State (Symbolic) Violence at Seoul National University while lawmakers voted to impeach the president for his declaration of martial law. A very (sur)real experience to say the least.

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

A lot of good stuff from Butler here. The questions are embarrassing.

english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

Come discuss our "new" reality at Kirkridge in the Spring!
kirkridge.org/programs-con...

Žižek on Soft Fascism, AI, and the Collapse of Shame – Sri Lanka Guardian

'To truly understand #history, we must pay attention to what
might have happened but didn’t. These unrealised possibilities don’t simply disappear—they persist as dreams, either reactionary or progressive'.

– Slavoj Žižek

slguardian.org/zizek-on-sof...

Excited for this in 2025!