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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/09/2026

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “To the extent that the court has put the brakes on the president’s assertions of executive power, it is arguably cleaning up its own mess,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

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Opinion | Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King?

The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In just over 50 pages, @candidamoss.bsky.social challenges modern assumptions about who counted as a slave trader and demonstrates that the entire apparatus of Roman medicine, commerce, and education was complicit in the manufacture and sale of human beings. Link below 👇🔗

Book cover of 'Marcion the Enslaver' by Candida Moss, published in Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen, 2026, De Gruyter.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The phrase “washes up” is perhaps not the best way to describe a newly found fragment of Homer on parchment 📜 . But I do love that it’s Book 12 and dated to the 4th century CE—in Coptic. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/scra...

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Scrap of 1700-year-old copy of The Odyssey washes up in Utrecht - DutchNews.nl

A 1700-year-old scrap of parchment containing verses from the Odyssey has been discovered in the library of Utrecht University. Researcher Mark de Kreij came across the fragile artefact two years ago ...

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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Enabled by the same functional advantages that once made it the medium of choice for universal digital communication, text becomes increasingly estranged from us as it is made into fuel for the models and machines." — @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/tex...

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When Words Are No Longer for Us

Matthew Kirschenbaum announces the arrival of the “textpocalypse,” and considers what it will mean for liberal societies.

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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

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm quoted in this @bostonglobe.com piece on Alice Hoffman's new book, *Witches of Cambridge*--which had its seed in a paper for my "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" class @harvarddivinity.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/04/a...

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Burnt out on publishing, Alice Hoffman finds new magic at Harvard - The Boston Globe

The "Practical Magic" author's work at the Divinity School led her back to the art she loved.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

oh man, i am so excited to read this!! i can’t wait to put it in conversation with @ekaputrat.bsky.social’s _contesting languages_. it’s great when your books talk to each other! (see what i did there, eh?)

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/08/2026

Column: Dolly Parton inspired me with lyrics that chronicled the travails of women who endured sexism and unequal pay in the workplace. In her song “9 to 5,” Parton sang, “There’s a better life, and you think about it, don’t you?” I did.

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Column | The financial (and life) lessons I learned from Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’

Facing workplace sexism and bias, Dolly Parton’s message of resilience offers the strength to keep fighting for your worth.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/08/2026

In a divided nation, Dolly Parton brought people together. Parton was the only global figure that a majority of conservatives and liberals both supported in one March poll — by far. wapo.st/3SWDCvV

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United States of Dolly: Was the country star our last bipartisan icon?

Parton transcended politics through her humble and often humorous message of acceptance.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

I am very tired of academics and feel compelled to spend the day looking at cool manuscripts. The undertext here is John 14–15 in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (~700 CE), a dialect similar to Jewish Palestinian Aramaic written in a script resembling Syriac. The overtext is Hebrew poetry copied ~900.

Brownish parchment manuscript folio with several sections torn from the edges, sitting on a blue background. There are about 30 lines of Hebrew text in black ink, which appear upside-down from this perspective. Behind the Hebrew is about 20 lines of light-brown, much-faded Christian Palestinian Aramaic text in 2 columns. The classmark is CUL T-S 16.98 (additional images here: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00016-00098/1)

Multispectral image photograph of the same manuscript from the previous image. The Hebrew text now appears bright teal, clearly distinct from the Aramaic text behind it, which is now dark purple. The background looks grey.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/08/2026

Each year, talented dogs and their adoring fans gather on a California beach for the World Dog Surfing Championships.

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Ekaputra Tupamahu @ekaputrat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m really pleased to receive the news that I’ve been elected as a full member of the Society for New Testament Studies (SNTS). Many thanks to Jostein Ådna and Tat-siong Benny Liew for writing letters of nomination on my behalf.

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There is a Eurocentric denialism maybe rooted in an original Greek sense of inferiority: Egyptians and Hittites produced whole written literatures while Greek peoples were still nonliterate. They left prose annals and memorial inscriptions where Greek bards left us beautiful, myth-saturated poetry.

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.

Nolan’s other major addition to Homer’s narrative is the repeated reference to threats to ‘our civilisation’ from ‘the sea peoples’ – a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE and to have also been responsible for the roughly coeval collapse of Mycenaean Greek culture. ‘Our civilisation is under attack,’ Penelope wails. Odysseus comforts her by saying that ‘Bronze Age civilisation’, including literacy, will rise again from the ashes. The current consensus, as Nolan clearly knows, is that there was no such thing as ‘the sea peoples’, and that the Greek-speaking world’s shift away from the more centralised, literate palace culture of the Mycenaeans in the 11th century BCE towards the fragmented social formations of the early Greek Iron Age was caused by a range of factors, including climate change, earthquakes and internal unrest. Nolan uses these competing historical theories to create a characteristic narrative twist about the identity of ‘the sea peoples’, which I will not spoil, though you can probably guess it.

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Read the Odyssey in Greek, with Tim Whitmarsh www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNg-...

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Read the Odyssey Ancient Greek

YouTube video by Classics at Cambridge

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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

hey! you! almost 1000 folks have read/downloaded Virginia Burrus's new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity, isn't it time you joined them? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Research Associate (Fixed Term) at University of Cambridge: “The Faculty of Divinity invites applications for a full time Research Associate in Literary Platonism: 1500 to the present.”

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Research Associate (Fixed Term) at University of Cambridge

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Associate (Fixed Term) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

okay the rough outline has shifted a bit to make room for more in-class work on the final "casting the saints" assignment. also including snapshot of (rough draft!) of the assignments. comments welcome (but please be nice I'm fragile!)!

SCHEDULE
You will find links to readings and guided questions on the Canvas module for that day. All readings must be done before coming to class and you must bring readings with you to facilitate discussion. Please reach out if you have any difficulty accessing Canvas, the modules, or the readings. On (most) Wednesdays we will also be setting aside time for an advising activity (more details on Canvas in the module for that day).

Aug 26 (W): Introductions: Ethics in the Liberal Arts
No readings
Aug 31 (M): The ethics of Superman (1): Origins
Readings: Action Comics #1 (1938); Saints: A Very Short Introduction, introduction
Sep 2 (W): The ethics of Superman (2): Adaptations
Reading: Superhero Ethics (excerpt)
Sep 7 (M): Christian sainthood: the basics
Reading: Saints: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 1
Sep 9 (W): How to read a saint’s life
Reading: Jerome, Life of Paul the First Hermit
Sep 14 (M): Apostles
Reading: Acts of Paul and Thecla
Sep 16 (W): Martyrs
Reading: Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas
Sep 21 (M): Yom Kippur: No class
Sep 23 (W): Monks
Reading: Theoderet of Cyrus, “On Simeon the Stylite”
Sep 28 (M): Holy harlots
Reading: Life of Pelagios
Sep 30 (W): Casting the saints: in-class workshop
Oct 5 (M): Reading days: No class
Oct 7 (W): Presenting the saints (1)
Oct 12 (M): Presenting the saints (2)
Oct 14 (W): Looking ahead

ASSIGNMENTS
Your grade in this class will be based on the following components:
1) Participation: 30%. Your presence in every class in required; while in class you must demonstrate evidence of preparation, attention, and participation. To facilitate active participation you must take notes on readings in your Commonplace book and every class will begin with a common question about the reading.
2) Ethical analysis: 15%. A directed analysis of the ethical decisions and quandaries in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas drawing on discussions in class on September 16. Due by 5pm on September 24
3) Ethical comparison: 15%. A directed comparison of the morality and humanity of Simeon and Pelagios drawing on discussion in class on September 28. Due by 5pm on October 8.
4) Casting the saints: 20%. A creative assignment in translating a saint’s life into a modern media property, begun in group discussions on September 30; brief individual presentations in class on October 7 and October 12; artifact due by 5pm on October 14.
5) Commonplace book check-ins: 10% (total). Twice during the quarter I will ask you to upload notes (from readings or in class) taken in your Commonplace book.
6) Engaging grounds: 10% (total)

More information on all assignments can be found on Canvas and all written work will be turned in to and returned through Canvas. I prefer that you do not use generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to do written work.

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NPR @npr.org · 06/07/2026

Spouses of U.S. citizens have traditionally had a special place in immigration law. That's no longer the case, according to the administration and immigration lawyers.

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Under Trump, spouses of U.S. citizens face policy changes in the immigration system

Spouses of U.S. citizens have traditionally had a special place in immigration law. That's no longer the case, according to the administration and immigration lawyers.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/07/2026

Cape Verde's national team received a huge, celebratory welcome home after their historic first World Cup appearance, reaching the round of 32 and pushing Argentina into extra time.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

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Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

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Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

this (from @ekaputrat.bsky.social) looks great! academic.oup.com/jaar/advance...

This study reconstructs a genealogy of the phrase “Great Commission,” a term widely used today to refer to Matthew 28:18–20. Although often assumed to be a neutral mobilizing slogan, the phrase originated in the late sixteenth century and gradually acquired theological authority through its entanglement with ecclesial, imperial, and missionary discourses. Drawing on early modern English texts, this study traces the phrase from its early appearance in 1590 through seventeenth-century baptismal controversies to its institutionalization in the eighteenth century by organizations such as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and a 1766 sermon of William Warburton. By the nineteenth century, the phrase had become the theological centerpiece of Protestant global missions. This genealogy demonstrates that the “Great Commission” is not only a story about Matthew 28 but also about how empire, theology, and interpretation together shaped the contours of Christian modernity.

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Looks like it’s time to bring back the #chroniclepitchbot again. “Is this decontextualized, historically inept, and badly substantiated report by tenured professors at high profile institutions stupid and violent? We asked the writers.” www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

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Is a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.

K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 11/06/2026

Cited Professors Say the Vanderbilt Report Misrepresents Their Work The report on the state of humanities scholarship has generated a lot of debate in academic circles and received backlash from the leading anthropology association. bit.ly/4aoW45U #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…

Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
Vanderbilt University AAUP
vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com
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josephkimmel.bsky.social @josephkimmel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If you're interested in divine names in early Christianity and/or comparative theological analysis, check out my book: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Charrise Barron, PhD @charrisebarron.com · 10/06/2026

It's my BIRTHDAY today 🥳! Thank you for all the birthday wishes...but my biggest birthday wish is that you'd PREORDER my book, The Platinum Age of Gospel: The Years When Crossover Music Changed Everything. Head to linktr.ee/CharriseBarron or my website in my bio #PlatinumAge#PlatinumAgeofGospel

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The latest volume of _Studies in Church History_ focuses on the theme of the interaction of the Church & military. Lots to take in from Crusades to Mongols, but I am enjoying Christopher Scargill’s discussion of evangelism along Hadrian’s Wall & beyond after 367 CE. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lead Christian chalice from Vindolanda. Press release from 2020: https://www.vindolanda.com/news/unique-christian-artefact-uncovered-at-vindolanda

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NPR @npr.org · 02/06/2026

President Trump's vow to revoke citizenship worries immigrant advocates, legal scholars and naturalized Americans — but so far it's proving harder to do than the rhetoric suggests. n.pr/4x98CbA

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Stripping U.S. citizenship en masse is harder than Trump vowed

President Trump's vow to revoke citizenship worries immigrant advocates, legal scholars and naturalized Americans — but so far it's proving harder to do than the rhetoric suggests.

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Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Available now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!

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Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul

Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - New Testament - Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul

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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Excited to have a hard copy to consult and reread! Thanks, @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social!

Paperback copy of “Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul: History and Reception” by Matthijs den Dulk.

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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

For those who have recently submitted work to the Journal of Biblical Literature, might you be willing to share your review timelines? I’d be grateful for a sense of others’ experience, either on this thread or by DM. #aarsbl #sblaar

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/05/2026

Four miners were rescued on Saturday after being trapped in a cave in Laos for more than a week. All five people who had been found there alive are accounted for, after one miner was freed on Friday. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

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Joel Mayward @jmayward.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I wrote a review of Jonathan A. Anderson's excellent "The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art" for @readingreligion.bsky.social just in time before RR ceases operations. Essential book for theology and the arts folks. readingreligion.org/978026820918...

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Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art - Reading Religion

The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art offers a critical guide for rereading and rethinking religion in the histories of modern and contempora...

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

New Cambridge Element 🚨 A Franciscan Tombstone in Fourteenth-Century China, by Nancy Wu was just published. Read it for free for the next 2 weeks at cup.org/4dM6PAg

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A Franciscan Tombstone in Fourteenth-Century China

Cambridge Core - Global History - A Franciscan Tombstone in Fourteenth-Century China

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Yale Divinity School @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Happy to see this feature on Gabrielle Thomas, who is soon coming to the Quad as Dean of Berkeley Divinity School and YDS Professor in the Practice of Early Christian, Anglican, and Theological Studies. livingchurch.org/news/news-ep...

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Meet Berkeley at Yale’s Next Dean - The Living Church

Gabrielle Thomas: “I would say to my priest, ‘I’m going to do what you do when I grow up.’”

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Mina Monier @mmonier.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Murder. Theft. Tischendorf. Codex Alexandrinus. GA 81. What brings those together? A journey to Alexandria, a trail of manuscripts, and a mystery with more twists than expected, hidden in the story of a grieving library: futureofthepastlab.com/2026/05/27/c...

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Codex Alexandrinus and GA 81: Lessons from a Grieving Library

May 27th, 2026 By Mina Monier The ‘Walled-Up’ Library and GA 81 Mina Monier, MF Norwegian School of Theology In October 2017, less than two months before my PhD defence, I travelled back to Egypt i…

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/05/2026

Israel has intensified its deadly military campaign against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, in recent days, striking targets across Lebanon. At least 31 people in the country were killed in the strikes on Tuesday, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

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Residents Watch as Israeli War Planes Circle Over Southern Lebanon

Israel has intensified its deadly military campaign against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, in recent days, striking targets across Lebanon.

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Out in the world! Congratulations, @philharland.bsky.social !

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NPR @npr.org · 24/05/2026

The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on display at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, New York.

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Mind-bending photos by anonymous cousins show the pain and dreams of Afghan women

The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on display at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, New York.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Little by little, Trump is shrinking MAGA down to its molten core. *Alienating noncollege/rural whites *and* Latinos/young *Forcing disloyal Rs out of GOP *Demanding Rs fund ballroom *Insisting Rs defend 1/6 slush fund *Wrecking economy with tariffs and war From me: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Canada as a state. Greenland as a state. Iran as a state. The Western hemisphere as a state. Stuff like this should immediately end a presidency, seeing as it wildly violates the UN Charter & massively endangers US national security. But alas, he is One Special Boy & nothing seems to matter anymore.

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