iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by collin cornell

Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new season at UPSem: Enrollment grows 45% Union Presbyterian Seminary is welcoming a growing student body this fall as students begin a new academic year across its Richmond and Charlotte campuses.

buff.ly

A new season at UPSem: Enrollment grows 45%

Union Presbyterian Seminary is welcoming a growing student body this fall as students begin a new academic year across its Richmond and Charlotte campuses.

021

Reposted by collin cornell

United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities @welcome-to-united.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For the second consecutive year, United is welcoming its largest-ever incoming class of degree-seeking students. With 85 new degree-seeking students, the seminary celebrates a total fall enrollment of 288 degree-seeking and 7 certificate students—the largest total enrollment in United’s history.

United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities announces record enrollment and its largest incoming class—enrollment has more than tripled in ten years—set over a blurred image of Fall Convocation attendees taken in the chapel.

131

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Black Americans who worship in multiracial congregations, especially those led by white clergy, show far higher rates of political disengagement than those in Black congregations, even when they share the same upbringing”

brookings.edu

How multiracial churches are depoliticizing Black Americans | Brookings

Ryon J. Cobb reveals how church leadership and racial makeup shape Black Americans' political engagement and power.

0189

Reposted by collin cornell

RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For those following the Vanderbilt Divinity story - turns out they're doing great financially and there are institutional hijinks at play.

3176

Reposted by collin cornell

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

14237771249

Reposted by collin cornell

RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Using just one sentence or phrase of scripture, answer the question, "What is the gospel?"

1983

Reposted by collin cornell

RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the most striking things about the ongoing work of reconciliation is the way apologies and working towards good relations often reveals more work that has yet to be done. Reconciliation is not a one and done event, but rather an ongoing process. /

3131

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) announced today that it has entered into formal negotiations—the first stage of a multi-year approval and transition process—to become the Chicago Theological Institute at Yale Divinity School (CTI@YDS)”

divinity.yale.edu

Yale Divinity School and Chicago Theological Seminary Advance Toward a Historic Affiliation

Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) has entered into formal negotiations to become the Chicago Theological Institute at Yale Divinity School.

000

Reposted by collin cornell

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm very curious about this. How does it work when a university puts one of its schools into receivership? (Thank you for sharing this one, Collin)

141

Reposted by collin cornell

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump is doing his best to weaken and undermine higher education, an area in which the United States has been a global leader since World War II, with economic and other benefits that extend far beyond the students, staff, and faculty at universities.

6539108

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Hamilton says he has leaned on a theological approach he calls ‘progressive evangelicalism’…a gospel of wanting people to know Christ, to surrender their lives to God, to invite the Holy Spirit to work in and through them‚ and then to go out and to work for justice and compassion in the world’”

050

Reposted by collin cornell

Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Herald has compiled a full list of the 90 programmes scheduled for closure at Edinburgh University. Cuts to language and divinity courses feature prominently. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655944...

heraldscotland.com

Full list of the 90 courses earmarked for closure at leading Scottish university

Managers say the cuts are necessary “to protect our world-leading reputation and resilience in research and teaching” but staff members have hit…

086

Reposted by collin cornell

Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

wsj.com

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

49404169

Reposted by collin cornell

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026

Big subtext: Hamilton is proving to be a hard target for the GOP. When Vance attacked his faith, a local UMC bishop and 120 UMC pastors issued statements defending him. When his competitor Sen. Marshall called him a pastor who is "too woke for Kansas," Marshall's *own pastor* suggested otherwise.

But the attacks have also revealed the positive reputation Hamilton has forged among his co-religionists. Last week, David Wilson, the United Methodist bishop who oversees Hamilton’s regional conference, published a statement dismissing attacks on Hamilton by Vance and Marshall as “inaccurate and unwarranted,” describing them as an “invective against the church, of which Adam is the founding pastor.”

“The language used, in effect, criticizes fellow Christians merely for living up to what Jesus taught in the Gospel texts,” wrote Wilson, who oversees the Great Plains Annual Conference.

A few days later, 120 UMC pastors from across the state signed a public letter to Marshall, urging the senator and the Vice President to tone down the rhetoric.

“When you attack Adam’s pastoral ministry, his home congregation, and our denomination as a whole, you sow seeds of division and dissent,” read the letter. “You tear at the fabric that is the body of Christ.”

And when Marshall derided Hamilton in August as a “megachurch pastor that’s too woke for Kansas,” Hamilton’s campaign quickly noted that the pastor of Marshall’s own non-denominational church has publicly referred to Hamilton as a “middle-of-the-road pastor who is willing to listen to all sides.”

3515139

Reposted by collin cornell

Michael "Austin" Kamenicky @kamenickyma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So excited to have contributed to this!

153

Reposted by collin cornell

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway.

6794182

Reposted by collin cornell

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/09/2026

in addition to devaluing one of the great human virtues, the premise isn’t even true! curiosity for its own sake, love of learning, wide reading and experience, these are super useful in the job market!!

1044051

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i didn’t know that?? “The English word ‘church” (and the Scottish kirk, and the German Kirche) comes from a different Greek word, kuriakos, ‘belonging to the Lord.’ So the church is both called out and belonging to the Lord, and it can’t be one without the other”

jeffp142z.substack.com

The Church, Our Mother

The role of the Church, Women in Ministry in the Reformed Tradition, and why faith was never meant to be formed alone

060

Reposted by collin cornell

🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 Chappell's Femininomenology of Spirit @ofvick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This development has come to a head in recent decades and escalated dramatically with the religious legitimization of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as a defense of the “natural order” against gay pride parades in February 2022." (Unsure about this site's ideological leanings, but)

canopyforum.org

Gender, Russian Orthodoxy, and the Invention of “Traditional” Values by Regina Elsner - Canopy Forum

Russian Orthodox Church, Rocklea, Russia by Bert Knot (CC 2.0) This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism, and its impact on politics, the rule of law, and religious fre...

1245

Reposted by collin cornell

Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ganz is onto something here. There's a reason that breakthroughs in mathematics have typically been achieved by young people while truly great work in the humanities usually doesn't happen until middle age.

Excerpt from John Ganz substack on AI and Aristotle on techne and phronesis

151

Reposted by collin cornell

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by around 0.5% in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis" - latest from @carbonbrief.org : www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

141

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i might assign this video for my bible and mission class

150

Reposted by collin cornell

Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Beautiful! Sarah Kendzior: "I do not use AI: not for research, writing, photography, or anything else. I never will. I’d rather be a ghost haunting the machine than a vampire imbibing it."

38832

Reposted by collin cornell

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-wheels...

othermeans.substack.com

The Wheels Are Coming Off

It Can Only Good Happen

41802149

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

sermons that don’t have much theological or exegetical insight. but also not much personal stake

220

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

text-based social media users / mainliners / academics / millennials 🤝

060

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

lovely meditation on friendship w god

031

Reposted by collin cornell

Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why college students are leaving church — but not faith Former Hastings College Chaplain Doodle Harris interviewed 21 students about why they left church. Their answers reveal pain, curiosity and an enduring desire to pursue faith beyond the sanctuary.

pres-outlook.org

Why college students are leaving church — but not faith

Former Hastings College Chaplain Doodle Harris interviewed 21 students about why they left church. Their answers reveal pain, curiosity and an enduring desire to pursue faith beyond the sanctuary.

132

Reposted by collin cornell

Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another thing to say is that @dwcongdon.com was more right about the link between political and theological postliberalisms than I could have imagined. bsky.app/profile/step...

2113

Reposted by collin cornell

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The president ordering USPS to illegally throw out millions of ballots is at least on par with what he tried to do for 2020, and in big ways it's worse. It's another attempted self-coup, trying to create a fake Congress. That he's even attempting it is already a deadly serious constitutional crisis.

171374335

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“When a school can only keep its doors open by softening its theological convictions or by narrowing them…it has not been rescued. It has been repurposed into something it was never called to be—and it may simply be dying more slowly, having spent its remaining years betraying its own mission”

140

Reposted by collin cornell

Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Remember when we teachers and professors used to tell our students not to use Wikipedia? Its standards are now higher than the many teachers and professors (and university admins) who promote the use of AI.

313644

Reposted by collin cornell

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Daniel S. Richter has a new book—which I am stoked about—looking at the Antebellum engagement with Aristotle by enslavers. We should all buy this book when it’s out in October (although $105 is high!), but here are some other thoughts too. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Aristotle in the Antebellum South

Natural Slavery, Democracy, and the Ancients

Daniel S. Richter

Introduces the first account of how and why antebellum Southerners embraced Aristotle prior to the Civil War
Provides a new approach to the discipline of intellectual history that moves beyond the idea of "reception"
Describes how different political contexts and historical moments shape defenses of slavery

813433