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David Carr

@davidcarr4.bsky.social
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Biblical Studies Professor at Northeastern Seminary. Not one of the following David Carrs: NFL QB, NY Times writer, or HB scholar.

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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
COYG!!!
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m still in shock. Did that really just happen????? COYG
David staring at his Arsenal scarf
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Society of Biblical Literature @sblsite.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
SBL member Samaria Divine on why we need biblical scholars: "Society is simultaneously misinformed about the Bible and heavily interested in the Bible ... We need biblical scholarship to combat the misinformation that is so prevalent these days." #TalkAboutHumanities #TalkAboutBiblicalStudies
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Over the past year, I've been unsure of how (or whether) to use social media. I'm still ambivalent about it. But now seems like a good time to hop on and say we need to devote more resources, not fewer, to religious studies (including biblical studies).
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Excited to see this article, which took me approximately 1,000 years to get out into the world, published in an issue. "Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Transformation and Identity in 2 Corinthians 11.13–15" journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.roberts.edu/doi/full/10....
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I don’t have words to describe how accurate this is. #amgrading
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Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
👇👇
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Good Friday reflections on Holy Saturday: Christians confess that a necessary part God's acts self-revelation and reconciliation occurred through an abused and disabled body.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
#autismacceptancemonth #disability
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The quest for autism’s causes, and what it reveals about all of us
The more researchers look, the more multifaceted the risk factors appear — and the more we learn about how the brain works and develops
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Autism is not a disease; there is no “autism epidemic.” Note how such rhetoric portrays people on the autism spectrum: it identifies part if their selfhood as a disease that should be eradicated. These are very dangerous, ableist presuppositions. #disability
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“To tell these stories now is not just an academic act. It is a spiritual one. It is to recover a humanity that was deliberately stripped. It is to stare back at the past without blinking.”
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The world feels like it’s spinning out of control. If you’d like a little break from the news, join us this evening for this 🔥 webinar on Black Church Studies. I was just reading over the introductory remarks, and it’s just crazy to have this much brilliance in one meeting.
Flyer for Black Church Studies Webinar at Northeastern Seminary on April 7 at 6pm EST
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Grateful for this endorsement from Dr. Brett Opalinski for our Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways.
Image of endorsement from Brett Opalinski for the edited volume Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE: Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways is out today!
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Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways
Unlock Wesleyan insights today.What is distinctive about how Christians in the Wesleyan tradition interpret the Bible? How can Wesleyans read Scripture in ways that are true to their theological herit
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Grateful for this endorsement from Dr. Edgardo Colón-Emeric. Available tomorrow!
Flyer with an endorsement from Edgardo Colón-Emeric for the edited volume Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Calling all Wesleyans/Methodists: tomorrow is the big day!
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Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways
Unlock Wesleyan insights today.What is distinctive about how Christians in the Wesleyan tradition interpret the Bible? How can Wesleyans read Scripture in ways that are true to their theological herit
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Vaccine skepticism has led to suffering and death, and this could lead to more. Importantly, pay attention to the rhetoric in related discussions: it often *others*’l people on the autism spectrum as a societal problem to be addressed. #disability
nytimes.com
Kennedy Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Skeptic for Autism Study
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Excited to share that Northeastern Seminary is offering a free webinar on Black Church Studies! @daracolebydelgado.bsky.social will moderate a discussion with @valeriebridgeman1.bsky.social, Eric Williams, and Nick Peterson. See flyer for details!
Flyer for Black Church Studies webinar for Northeastern Seminary
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Important and consequential #disability news
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
She’s smarter than me, so take her word for it! 👇
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Very humbled and excited to share this endorsement from Valerie Bridgeman for our forthcoming edited volume on Wesleyan Biblical Interpretation. Thank you, @valeriebridgeman1.bsky.social, for reading it so carefully.
An image of the edited volume titled Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways with Valerie Bridgeman’s endorsement:

"Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways is a must read and a must have, not only for scholars and preachers of the Wesleyan tradition, but also laity and people within ecumenical Christianity and yes, non-Christians. I hope every seminary, no matter its affiliations, will make it required reading. I am sure that no reader will agree with every essay, and that there will be other essays that will be read over and over. But for historical, hermeneutical, theological, and pastoral reasons, everyone owes it to themselves to engage this volume. It is readable and well-researched. Each writer is honest about their positions, their starting points, and their commitments. What a gift!”
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs? From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles: “Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Finally reading this wonderful intro volume, and I plan to assign it for several future classes. I highly recommend it!!
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Just received advanced reader copies of my latest project—a co-edited volume on Wesleyan biblical interpretation! We hope it will be helpful for Methodists/Wesleyans as they interpret the Bible in constantly shifting landscapes. Much more to come!
Image of the cover of an edited volume titled Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways, edited by Frederick David Carr and Brady Beard.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The seminary I work for asks faculty to contribute one blog post each academic year. I offered reflections on "Dark Seasons," a descriptor that is increasingly fitting for our current realities.
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Dark Seasons | Northeastern Seminary Blog
Each turn of the calendar page brings us a bit closer to springtime, to the season when death gives way to new life.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Ableism causes harm. If we normalize blaming people with disabilities for our hardships, atrocities are likely to follow. #disability
npr.org
People with intellectual disabilities do lots of jobs–but they don't direct air traffic
After the fatal crash over the Potomac River, the President says diversity hiring has made the skies unsafe, but that's not how disability hiring works
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“They…saw themselves as Christians who followed the Bible.” Their theology of healing, rooted in readings of the Bible, led to the death of a disabled 8 y/o girl. Interpretations of Scripture have material effects on the lives of the disabled. We need serious interventions. #disability #Bible
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
But first, I’m reading @beckycopeland.bsky.social’s new, important book. Excited to learn from such brilliant people.
Image of a book: Entangled Being by Rebecca Copeland.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Finally used that Christmas gift card!
Image of two books. 1. Paul and Judaism at the end of History by Matthew Novenson. 2. God Gave Rock and Roll to You by Leah Payne.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
“I am not suggesting that innovation is bad – I am a big fan of modern medicine and space flight – but we ignore the importance of cyclical stability at our own peril.”
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Publication day! This article is finally out in the world with JSNT (a spin-off piece from one of my book sections). Now I’m taking a long break from anything related to transformation in Paul’s letters 😂
journals.sagepub.com
Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Transformation and Identity in 2 Corinthians 11.13–15 - Frederick David Carr, 2025
In 2 Corinthians 11.13–15, Paul uses the verb μετασχηματίζω in the middle voice to claim that his opponents are, in the NRSV’s rendering, ‘disguising themselves...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Trump's presidency includes a number of grifters, most notably many who have promoted misinformation about autism. I wrote about how Trump's presidency represents the apotheosis of toxic theories about autism. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
The toxic autism politics of Trump’s second administration
From Elon Musk to RFK, the right has developed an obsession with pushing two seemingly contradictory — but equally damaging — theories on autism, writes Eric Garcia. And this obsession is bleeding int...
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
On the resurgence of #disability slurs. An unsettling read.
rollingstone.com
The R-Word's Comeback Is a Grim Sign of Our Political Moment
The R-slur has made a comeback thanks to the MAGA movement and Elon Musk, who use it to dehumanize their political opponents.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Evergreen…
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I continue to learn learn about the history of eugenics in the US. It’s been timely and unsettling. #eugenics #disability
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A well-deserved award received by a fantastic colleague. Congrats, Marlena!
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Working through proofs for a forthcoming article! This piece is a spin-off from a small section of my book, and, for various reasons, it has taken a crazy long time to get it to this point. Excited that I’m almost done with it.
Screenshot of the abstract of my forthcoming article titled, “Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Transformation and Identity in 2 Corinthians 11.13–15.” To be published in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The amount of popcorn I've mindlessly consumed over the past 24 hours may actually be illegal in some countries. #amgrading
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
At some point, I have to consider seriously whether they’re doing this to me on purpose #falcons
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Being and Becoming is over $20 off on Amazon right now. The holidays are around the corner, and this would make a perfect stocking stuffer for friends and family. Candy is unhealthy. Your loved ones would prefer the knowledge they can gain from (multiple copies of) this book! a.co/d/dc61wPK
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Another study shows that masks work. A cheap and effective way to protect ourselves and, especially, the most vulnerable among us.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We're hiring! We have two postings: 1. Practical Theology (seminary) 2. New Testament Studies (undergraduate). See links to each below. If you have questions about teaching at our institution, living in Rochester, etc., please reach out. I'm happy to chat.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Life as a Falcons fan…😩
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/11/2024
Every academic right now
A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As God intended.
Cranberry slices from a can
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I'm going to go ahead and establish this now: there is one right answer. And it comes out of the can looking like this.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
An important book written by a great scholar and an even better friend.
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#bookfriendsies
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David Carr @davidcarr4.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
First Bluesky post! Just returned from a fantastic #aarsbl conference. I gave two papers (bc I make questionable life choices), heard some great papers, caught up with friends, and enjoyed the warm San Diego weather. Feeling very grateful.
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