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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer

@drdominee.bsky.social
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Reformation historian. Translator of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion.

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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week has been a blur, but I wanted to take a moment to celebrate LIVE LAUGH LOVE debuting at #5 on the NYT Best Seller list! Thank you to my incredible readers for making this happen, and to W. W. Norton’s Liveright Publishing for supporting this book in every possible way. ❤️❤️❤️
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Want to talk about LIVE LAUGH LOVE with friends? Here’s a book club discussion guide that might be helpful: share.google/b5Ym5rfCcmqO...
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Live Laugh Love Book Club Discussion Guide - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Media kit for Kristin Kobes Du Mez including bio, headshot, and book cover images. Author of Jesus and John Wayne and Live Laugh Love.
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Audible just announced LIVE LAUGH LOVE as one of its “most anticipated” fall books, and the wait is almost over… LLL releases THIS TUESDAY in bookstores everywhere, so pick up a book and a pumpkin spice latte and get ready to kick off Christian girl autumn!
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Every bit of this 22 part post is worth reading!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lying, thieving, grifting, law-breaking, constitution-shattering fascist murderers are furious that someone suggested the adjudicated rapist of a president who's been linked to a pedophile sex trafficking ring might be wasting too much time lounging about on his luxury plane with an aide.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Utter crackpot. No actual historical training, and real academic historians (even quite conservative ones) pretty uniformly regard him as a charlatan. But he’s become VERY popular with right-wing politicians for spinning a revisionist (and imaginary) version of US history they find appealing.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is just what Lutherans look like when giddily celebrating.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11/07/2026
IISSM, this is one of the better things I've ever written, speaking of errors.
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My Life in Error (Gift Article)
A copy editor recounts his obsession with perfection.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@bocadelperro.bsky.social A corgi? Here’s mine
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This Guardian story from 2020 asked: "Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?" I think we know the answer. Release all the Epstein files. End the Trump cover-up.
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Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Important article from @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social integrating research on how Christian nationalism threatens democracy. Check it out.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Historical methodology reflections by @ggangl.bsky.social gtw.hypotheses.org/9274 #presentism #historicism #anachronism #history #historiography
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History Now! On Presentism and a Strange Online Debate in American Historiography (Part 1)
Georg Gangl - James H. Sweet is the current president of the American Historical Association (AHA), the largest scholarly organization of historians worldwide, and he recently found himself in quite a situation. As part of his function as president of AHA, Sweet writes the monthly column From the President in the organization’s news magazine Perspectives on History. While I imagine the column is usually read with some interest by AHA members and other readers, the text in the September issue of this year entitled “IS HISTORY HISTORY? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present” garnered rather special and outsized attention.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"It is still a free country. You can still say what you want. So why are so many powerful institutions behaving like it isn’t and they can’t? If a few bratty cartoon kids can peel off the emperor’s clothes, what are the grown-ups so afraid of?" [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a...
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Eric Cartman, Welcome (for Now) to the Resistance
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Trump’s Treason Summit Backfires Spectacularly His week of madness ends in rejection and resistance
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Trump’s Treason Summit Backfires Spectacularly
His week of madness ends in rejection and resistance
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Dictionnaire du Moyen Français has been down for a few days. 😒 I use this resource daily. I hope they get the site back up and running soon.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
And importantly, he won the case in a landmark SCOTUS ruling that marked the start of the long erosion of affirmative action programs. One mediocre white guy's self-delusion has brought generations of lasting damage.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Florida’s Republican administration blocks Catholic priests from ministering to immigrants jailed at Everglades detention camp: migrantinsider.com/p/catholic-p...
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Catholic Priests Barred From Ministering to Detained Migrants in Florida
Miami Archbishop slams lack of access at so-called 'Alligator Alcatraz', calling it a denial of dignity and faith.
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting. Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
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Science and Democracy Under Siege
Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
@saracharles.bsky.social Loving this
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Riding the frog in 1545. The Zurich-based printer Christoph Froschauer used this trademark frog on the title page of Conrad Gessner’s 'Bibliotheca Universalis'. #earlymodern #bookhistory The trademark frog derives from a translation of the printer’s last name: frog is in German “Frosch”.
A boy sitting on a frog is shown. This is sixteenth-century printer Christoph Froschauer's trademark. The German word for frog is "Frosch", so Froschauer had his trademark decision done.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@microsoft.com Who thought that new Outlook was a good idea? 🤮 Seems like breaking what works is your MO. I’ve been using MS software since DOS, and you never fail to disappoint. Do better.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
For #Calvin, the corruption of the medieval and early modern papacy was all about the lust for power. 4.7.24 #AmTranslating "Nor is there any other reason why the Pontiffs vent so much rage against the renascent doctrine of the gospel and exert every muscle to oppress it 1/
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
One example of #Calvin’s many allusions to classical literature in the Institutes, here 4.7.22 #AmTranslating “What complaints does Bernard [of Clairvaux] pour out, what laments does he utter, when he sees the corruptions of his age? 1/
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#Calvin diagnoses the problem with the medieval and early modern papacy as a lust for power, #Institutes 4.7.5 #AmTranslating "I come now to the uncontestable jurisdiction that the Roman Pontiff claims he possesses over all churches. 1/
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Calvin Institutes 4.8.7 #AmTranslating Calvin is discussing Christ as God's final source of revelation. “And so it was for a good purpose that the Father appointed the Son by a unique privilege to be our teacher, commanding us to listen to him and not just any person... 1/
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Bluesky needs a notification setting for when your favorite people post. I need to hear from my people. Like @bethmoorelpm.bsky.social
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“This is a moral moment. It’s not left or right. It’s right or wrong. Let’s get in good trouble.” Sen. Cory Booker, 4/1/2025
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"When you're only taught a history where only a certain type of people are always in charge, then it's much easier to convince people that only a certain type of people should be in charge." - @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social ⬇️
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
#Calvin Institutes 4.8.1 #AmTranslating "After all, if we simply grant people the power that they see fit to assume, it is obvious to all how prone this power would be to a fall into tyranny, which should be far removed from Christ’s church."
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Fellow scholars: Avoid Nitro PDF. I've used it for around 17 years, and it has numerous problems with functionality. For example, it can't properly read many books from Google books, among other things. E.g., Nitro deletes my books from One Drive. As of today, I'm done.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Alternative to Am*zon bookshop.org
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Just listened to you on the Vulgar History podcast… relates to work I’m doing on monsters and prodigia in 16th c. thought, including Knox’s misogynist tract.
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Chris Hutchinson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇮🇷 🕊️ @cahutch1990.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
a shrug of the shoulders a slouch in the seat fingers slackening on the keyboard might as well turn on the game no energy left for protest or even really to care what is happening outside my four walls after all, what can one really do? And that my friends, is how they win
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
May the Force* be with you everyday! *should be capitalized
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Let's Gooo! techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...
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Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🎉
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Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı
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Fighter Guy @fightguystudios.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A man in Indiana made an AT-AT costume for his horse, intending to only get a few pictures before removing it. When he took off the headpiece the horse got upset and insisted that he put it back on, which made the horse happy again. Now the horse isn't allowing him to remove any piece of the costume
A horse with an AT-AT costume and a guy who looks half proud half disgusted with the horse
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#Calvin on the papal decrees allowing monks to serve as priests, Institutes 4.5.8 #AmTranslating "But what kind of grounds are there that some uneducated ass, once he has come to occupy the See of Rome, can overturn all of antiquity with a single little word?" 1/
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
It's interesting to note that John Calvin associates certain jobs with the "dregs of humanity." Calvin in Institutes 4.5.6. is criticizing the corrupt practice of awarding benefices as favors to the rich, influential, or fawning. #AmTranslating 1/
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
How I feel about working today
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W. David O. Taylor @wdavidotaylor.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Two prayers to accompany your New Year's Eve celebrations: One for those who end this year in gratitude for all that is good in their lives; and another for those who end this year with an acute sense of all that's been lost, broken or forgotten. (via "Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Please read this piece. Phil has reported on the activities of racist white Christian nationalists in Tennessee, and they (and their allies) have come after him in the most vile ways. This is what they do, and the world needs to know.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
#Calvin Institutes 4.4.5 in the Latin complains that ppl in his day are made bishops who are drunkards, whoremongers and gamblers, but in the French his list is rather different... 1/3
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#EarlyModern mystery. Translating #Calvin, Institutes, 4.5.1, he accuses the bishops of his day of immorality: "If one was not an alcoholic, he was a whoremonger. If he was free from these crimes, he was either a gambler or a hunter." A hunter?? 1/
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