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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

No, I’m not working on my syllabi today. I like to marinate my syllabi in procrastination and then quickly broil them at high anxiety. Then I frantically plate it on Canvas two days before with a garnish of parsley. Bon appétit!

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Normally my Memorial Day weekend begins with giving a paper, listening to fabulous papers, and absolutely nerding out about early Christianity at the Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society in Chicago. I’m so sad to miss this time. Have a lovely time! I will see y’all soon!

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

For the many undergraduate and grad students who read deeply, ask good questions, wrestle through challenges, and write in their own voice, we give thanks. I know those who take the shortcuts or act badly get lots of attention. But I see y'all. Keep going, you are worth the investment in yourself.

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TheoDisc Podcast @theodisc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Is martyrdom the highest call for Christians? The early Christian martyrdom accounts are not a call to action, but a witness to Christ's faithful identification with us, even in the worst of events. Watch the full episode with @amybrownhughes.bsky.social: youtu.be/JcJqCi3wmhc #churchhistory

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This was such a fun conversation and if I were going to pull any section from it, this would be it!

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I dissent. As a Christian and theologian who cares deeply for civil rights and justice and tearing down the idol of white supremacy that our nation clings to in its greed and lust for power and domination, I dissent.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Today is the last day to read my new book Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrected Life for free: doi.org/10.1017/9781... This book is about Gregory's vision of the resurrected life, i.e., becoming truly our individual selves, growing together like Christ, and seeking justice - now, not just later.

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Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrected Life

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrected Life

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I just had a book birthday! 🎉 Read Gregory of Nyssa and the Resurrected Life online for free for the next week or in print. Gregory connects the resurrection to justice and love of neighbor in ways that kind of blew my mind. Excited to share this book with y'all! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrected Life

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrected Life

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I know I'm never on here...sorry about that. Who on here is going to Bible and religion nerd prom (aka SBLAAR)? It's in my backyard in Boston this year so I'll be there! Would love to say hi if you will be too.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This is the worse case of déjà vu ever. Complete with all the talking heads going "You know, I think this is actually going to make America safer!" For pete's sake, READ A HISTORY BOOK or watch a documentary whatever just...can we not do this AGAIN?!

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Sarah E. Rollens @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Circulating this growing list of women NT/EC scholars again if any one else wants to add their name! Please share if you can! tinyurl.com/WomenNTECsch...

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Women Scholars of NT and Early Christianity

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

There are still some seats in my #Theology as Dialogue in Early Christianity class in July at Regent College in Vancouver. It's for credit or audit, in-person or online. We're going to read a bunch of weird and fun and delightful texts together. Join me! www.regent-college.edu/summer/cours...

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Theology as Dialogue in Early Christianity

In this course, we will work through several examples of early Christian dialogues from writers such as Justin Martyr, Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine of Hippo, and consider what...

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Y'all, @caromein.bsky.social came through and was able to provide a transcription for these. This work + Gemini gave me a good idea of what these texts are! Further confirmation and study needed but: A late 14th-century scholastic commentary A early 15th-century Gradual or Antiphonary for Pentecost

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Hey #medievalsky manuscript friends! Found in our archives. One is a Psalter from 1425 (maybe?). The other? No idea. Can anyone help identify what this Latin fragment from the late 1300s (supposedly) is? This is definitely not my wheelhouse. Any further info on either is welcome.

fragment of unidentified Latin mss with a wax seal

photo of a fragment of a medieval Psalter

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

These T Swift lyrics have been in my head since Jan 20: The whole school is rolling fake dice. You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes ... American stories burning before me I'm feeling helpless, the damsels are depressed Boys will be boys then, where are the wise men? Darling, I'm scared.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Humans made in the image of God are being starved and slaughtered in Gaza. Grief and rage at this atrocity does not diminish the horror of October 7th. One atrocity does not condone another. There is no justification for killing civilians, let alone children and the wounded. Absolutely none.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

What theologians here find themselves doing historical #theology work in the 1500ish-now space? Obviously that's a large span of time and everyone has a focus (mine is early Christianity) but I'd love to meet some new friends who work in that space. Introduce yourselves! What do you work on?

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Just wrapped up listening to a fabulous plenary from an Argentinian scholar on Origen’s Commentary on John at #NAPS2025. International faculty and students in the US are blessings. They honor us with their presence and their work. Treating them with violence is abhorrent.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Hey #NAPS2025! Can’t wait to see y’all. I’m presenting on Gregory of Nyssa in the first paper of the first session (the equivalent of winning the lottery at a conference, I think). Bonus: I’m coming from Boston’s North Shore and skipping an impending rare May nor’easter to hang out with y’all 😁

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Hey all, the FDA has a comment section open for the next three days! Tell them what you think of their ridiculous and harmful decision to not approve the Covid-19 vaccine yearly for the majority of people. The vaccine is safe, effective, and should be widely available. regulations.gov/comme…

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I'm teaching a new course on Theology as Dialogue in Early Christianity at Regent College in Vancouver this summer. It's for credit or audit, in-person or online. We're going to read a bunch of weird and fun and delightful texts together. Join me! www.regent-college.edu/summer/cours...

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Theology as Dialogue in Early Christianity

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Hey Late Antiquity and early Christianity peeps! Who's going to NAPS this week? I've not been in a bit and can't wait to catch up with y'all and meet new friends.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s the kind of day where I needed whatever this lemon lavender brioche thing is and I’m alternating between iced and hot coffee 😂 Oh, and that brand new book by Greg Lee on the City of God you see there? Yeah, it’s PHENOMENAL. Gonna chat with him this afternoon for a new episode of OnScript!

Photo of desk with a hot coffee, iced coffee, a sugary roll on a napkin in front of a book stand with a book by John Behr - Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God and a book by Gregory Lee - The Essential City of God: A Reader and Commentary

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

What Jesus said. Women are made in the image of God. Therefore, women have full agency and deserve protection from violence of any kind, regardless of what they wear or do or say or who they're in a relationship with.

Selfie of a woman with red hair and red glasses in an academic office with bookshelves wearing a blue shirt that says: "Jesus said, 'Leave her alone.'"

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I have a lot of grading to do, a conference paper to write, and a book to work on so of course I made cinnamon rhubarb muffins.

Photo of 12 rhubarb muffins on a cooling rack on a a counter.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I was obsessing about this cute gull fam on the roof and saw it live! Habemus papam!!!

A family of three gulls on the Vatican roof

White smoke from the chimney on the Vatican roof!

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Sure, let's go all in on AI doing all the things. Because obviously this is the kind of "ruler" Paul meant. 🤪 🤣

Powerpoint slide with Colossians 2:15 (NRSV) that says: "he disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it." and includes an image included by powerpoint designer of several rulers for measurement.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Super niche ask on numismatics: We have a Helena Augusta coin in our archives that's been identified as a medieval forgery. I know what I'm looking at with coins struck in late antiquity but I'm interested in the why and how of a forgery. Numismatics peeps: I'd love to get your thoughts on it!

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Love me a good story with great characters, especially ones that inspire us to directly challenge exploitative power and oppression. May the Fourth be with you, fellow rebel scum.

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a woman is standing in front of a building and saying `` may the force be with you . ''

Alt: General Organa saying "may the force be with you."

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Look this crumb, y’all 🤩 And it’s the most delicious sandwich bread so far. Shout out to Sally’s Baking for this perfect recipe. I used old fashioned oats for this loaf.

Loaf of bread sliced to show crumb structure.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Behold! I hath made multigrain bread.! 🍞 Steam in the oven made sure it didn’t rip on the side and I’m crying because it’s so pretty. The tears might also be because every day is a new horror and also because it’s the end of the semester. Complex tears. But also LOOK AT MY BREAD.

Photo of fresh bread that looks AMAZING on a cooling rack

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Annoyed writer rant: Why does MS Word default to one kind of spacing between paragraphs and another within the paragraph? UGH. DON'T ADD SPACE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS OF THE SAME STYLE!!! How many times I gotta click that box since apparently hitting the "set as default" button doesn't matter?! /rant

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Reading a recent book and came across a point I made in my more technical work on Gregory of Nyssa and Christology. Looked at the footnote and saw my article cited. You wonder sometimes if people ever read the really specific academic stuff. Turns out, sometimes they do! Warms the heart it does 😊

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Reuters was refused entry so they flew a drone over a detention facility in Texas. Jesus only has words of judgment for those who don't welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, and care for the prisoner. But sure, sing more "worship" songs in the WH. That'll help. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison

Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It’s that time in the semester where my desk collects mugs and my floor collects piles.

Photo of a desk with a phone, computer, lamp and other clutter with 5 coffee mugs.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Been nervous about some writing projects (a conference paper, a short book). I've done most of the research for both. I realized I'd hit that moment when researching became a delay tactic so I just started to WRITE. 1100 words so far. When will I learn to just start writing?!

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

When I read early Christian texts, I colloquially summarize. Here's Gregory of Nyssa and his sister Macrina in De anima et res 4.1-5. They're fun because they get snarky: Greg: What and where is Hades? 1/4

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Flowcharts don't tend to make me emotional but this one... Rage, frustration, sadness, embarrassment

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

From the official White House account. There's no bottom to this administration's disdain for the law and for human rights. Dehumanizing an already vulnerable person and then mocking someone visiting that prisoner during Holy Week is...a choice. To be clear - it's a vile and anti-Christ choice.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?” - Augustine, City of God 4.4 The absolute disregard for due process. Christ have mercy. The speed at which we've abandoned all pretense of a discernible set of American ideals is stunning.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Check out my fabulous colleague Jeff García's work featured on @christianitytoday.com this morning. It's 8am and we're all chatting in our offices about execution methods in the early Roman Empire, you know, like you do. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/04/was-...

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Was Jesus Crucified with Nails? - Christianity Today

Why one evangelical Bible scholar thinks the answer might be no.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"This is the time to stare at despair and say, 'You will not have the last word!'" - Senator Booker SAY IT. AMEN.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Almost missed posting for #WomensHistoryMonth! I wrote (with Lynn Cohick) Christian Women in the Patristic World. The thesis: women contributed substantially to the development of theology and practice in early Christianity. Buy at your fave bookshop! www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/christ...

Book cover of Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries by Lynn H. Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Using humans in cages as props or trophies (regardless of who they are or what they've done) is vile. Christians: This is anti-Christ. Full stop. There is no defense or rationalization.

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Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is a deeply unserious and dangerously incompetent administration. And yet they mock, endanger, and carelessly fire civil servants with expertise and experience.

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