@deandettloff
Philosophy PhD | Toronto Organizing in churches against imperialism. Teaching at the Institute for Christian Studies (www.icscanada.edu). Author of Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, & Liberation Theology w @mattbernico.bsky.social
Idk I feel like Mormons don't enjoy any real cultural cache outside of Utah and are the butt of a lot of jokes. There have been plenty of journalist exposés on Falun Gong and Shen Yun for years. Feels sort of overripe.
How is there not a compelling HBO docuseries about Shen Yun yet? Feels like right now is exactly the moment for something about an anticommunist Chinese acrobat cult that publishes a fascist newspaper but manages to have a poster in every cafe on your block.
Porco Rosso is a single film about an antifascist pig that features pirates. PotC is a series of films about how capitalism and colonialism are disenchanting the world and only piracy can resist it. As far as *pirate movies* go there's simply no contest.
A similar sentiment underlies my permanent unironic love for the greatest cinematic franchise of all time, Pirates of the Caribbean.
"U.S. policy toward Cuba has never been about justice or human rights, but in the 21st century, this policy is also something of an anachronism, ideologically belonging to a Cold War framework."
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The Seventh Day Adventists put out a very interesting magazine issue on liberation theology featuring Elsa Tamez, Franz Hinkelammert, and others. Angelica Tostes (of @tricontinental.bsky.social) has a great piece on generational change in liberation theology.
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Degrowth is not (only) about less; it is about different--and the world's religions and spiritual teachings have much to teach us on why and how to live differently. Coming from outside the conventional degrowth choir, this is a fresh and very welcome read. Giorgos Kallis, ICREA research professor, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)
Proud to have @giorgoskallis.bsky.social's endorsement for Enough Is Enough, out May 12!
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Italian food is obviously God-tier but that first pour over coffee at home beats any cafe espresso.
Three Catholic clergy entered the Broadview ICE facility on Ash Wednesday afternoon for court-ordered visit, only to find out no one was being held there when they arrived.
Instead of leaving, they waited to minister to new detainees brought in after 4 pm.
My latest for the @chicagoreader.com:
The author also has another very funny book. I love the idea that you could draw 30 different guys getting hurt or you could just draw one guy getting hurt in 30 different ways.
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A photo of the book Extractive Industries in Africa: Addressing Conflicts and Integrating Sustainable Development, edited by Elias Opongo SJ. The cover features miners in difficult conditions and a logo for the publisher Paulines
One cool thing about going to Rome is finding bookshops with texts that don't tend to show up in Canada.
I know this is true but the thought of doing any work at all to figure this out and transfer everything is so exhausting.
Troubling how the international community is either silent or literally affirming that it's good actually that Trump has decided 2026 is the year that the US gets to try to create new client states through kidnapping, deprivation, and wars, not even with the mask of changing ruling parties anymore.
God bless Parkdale
"We demand to be able to thumbs up your bombing" is really so nihilistic.
"We want the murder software to murder accurately" isn't the absolution everyone seems to think it is. Anthropic is enacting a huge PR campaign and too many people are helping them
Chuck have you turned on the news today
Love our elbows locked approach to US imperialism, it's so important that we invest in our own military so we can do even more of this kind of thing.
Bombing Iran??? Does the FIFA Peace Prize mean nothing to this president?
Imo it's preferable to the alternative of making a wax mask for a dead saint. Either show me those bones or put it away.
Cover for the book Medieval Bodies by Jack Hartnell. It features an anatomical body sketch cleverly made up of various medieval images.
Is this not the coolest book cover you've ever seen
They are, and I can't stress this enough, incredibly real bones and they have evidently not been kept in a temperature controlled environment.
Also went to see millennial saint Carlo Acutis's tomb. Leaning into Catholicism's "wanna see a dead body" energy.
Landscape photo of the Basilica of St. Francis.
Hello from Assisi where I did see St. Francis's 800 year old bones, 10/10 would recommend.
I really enjoyed this biography of St. Francis. It's well researched but more literary than other academic treatments.
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“We feel isolated even inside the country.”
Despite Mark Carney’s rhetoric at #Davos and Canada’s ties with Cuba, our prime minister has said and done nothing for weeks. Some eventual aid, while nice, is not enough, writes Jeannine Mitchell. #canpoli #uspoli
We love America's local band don't we folks
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Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine
Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine
Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine
Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine and cat
An excerpt from the first chapter of our forthcoming book was in Sojourners this month!
You can read it online!
sojo.net/magazine/mar...
A photos of a statue of an angel carrying a cross against a deep blue gradient sky. Three seagulls (which are in fact dinosaurs) are standing on the statue.
Okay it's a reasonable CET bedtime so I gift all my loyal Bluesky followers on the other side of the Atlantic with the bluest sky you've ever seen.
Extremely. Same for Freire tbh.