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Jack Belloli

@frgiacbelloli.bsky.social
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priest in the church of england | theology, poetics, activism | he/him

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They're sitting on the hassocks, they all deserve to be murdered. #celebritytraitors
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Between the NYT TV list and the iced coffee discourse, this website's suddenly got cool again?!
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To live in a world with minute, irrelevant distinctions of religion and nationality. What a dream.
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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have we checked the pipes for lead or perhaps some kind of gas based collective delusion in Westminster because this is absolutely crackers. No the government should not be trying to kill RNLI volunteers and Daniel Thomas does not have a point when he does it!
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Still waiting for the Prayer Book Society to organise a lecture on Edward Said...
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Aw bless, posted just in time for all the hip and with-it philosophy professors to use for their introductory lectures on speech-act theory next term.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A lot of Labour people visibly believe that a Labour government gives off tolerance particles, and therefore sitting mute is fine and good. The reality is that it took a cross party, whole society effort to make us, as Sunak says, the most successful multiethnic, multifaith democracy in the world:
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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test
I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fennel gratin and the new Ted Lasso. I do like Sunday nights.
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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"facts don't care about your feelings or exist"
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Triquetra/Shane @triquetra3.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Witness
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Huge if true 🐦 🐦‍⬛ 🦜
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M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The RNLI is an incredible example of the strength of mutual aid and the innate humanitarian spirit in us all, it's truly horrifying to see fascists openly challenge that and for my former MP to validate fascist opposition by suggesting they're motivated by an underlying reasonable concern
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's reaching the point where it feel likes both the government and the official opposition are in tacit agreement with Orr's closing line from the FT piece that there's nothing about the contemporary UK worth conserving. The choice being just whether to watch the brute force happen or endorse it.
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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Starting to think the global liberal effort to destroy socialism might have some negative effects.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I watched the video of these elderly Reform supporters violently assaulting a young woman and it’s incredibly disturbing. I wish I hadn’t, though now I have the measure of how out of control and dangerous these people are. Arrests should follow. Meanwhile this thread makes very good points.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
👏 👏 👏 10/10 no notes
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On the plus side, maybe James Orr will find the time to finish that book on Edith Stein that's been contracted to Bloomsbury since 2022.
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John B @johnbc74.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From the FT feature today.
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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 02/09/2026
I didn't expect Reform to be fans of us, but to dismiss the reporter who just won the Paul Foot award as "a blogger" is kinda hilarious for people who pretend to be anti-establishment. #indiemedia I guess @petergeoghegan.bsky.social got his weekend back 😂 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK bans three journalists who have investigated party from its conference
Guardian City editor Anna Isaac, investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and broadcaster Michael Crick refused entry
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At the Canadian Theological Society this spring, @timothyharvie.bsky.social, @msamrc.bsky.social, Doris Kieser, Christina Conroy, and myself responded to @janebarter.bsky.social's new book, "Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness". That panel is now available here: en.novalis.ca/cdn/shop/fil...
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This has been such an interesting thread to read as I prepare to move out of curacy.
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.
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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
...ok
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A reminder that Jolene slowed down to 33rpm is absolute genius. RIP, Dolly 💔 youtube.com/watch?v=doz1...
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Jolene at 33 rpm
YouTube video by Tom Berry
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today in the post: my driver's licence, confirmation of Tate membership, and a copy of Stanley Hauerwas's commentary on Matthew.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Perhaps now finally we can start paying attention to the billionaire funding of 'racial science' (fraud discipline) & white supremacist networks in the UK, including a branch at Cambridge? Nathan Cofnas is a small, albeit hideous cog, in a much bigger wheel.
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good to catch up with the new LUDD GANG, with fab extended pieces/sequences from @drnollid.bsky.social and others.
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Táíwò's ELITE CAPTURE is one of the books I've been surprised not to see more of in reflections these last few weeks.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses
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Saint Francis Parish and Outreach @oursaintfrancis.org · 14/08/2026
How to Keep Standing Faith was never a promise of comfort. Elijah wanted to die under a juniper tree. The disciples were terrified in the storm. If you are tired and frightened right now, you are not failing at faith, you may be practicing exactly the kind scripture describes. A reflection on st…
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/08/2026
Not generally a fan of gatekeeping but I'm increasingly fond of the idea of an entrance exam for anyone who wants to write about universities, requiring them to demonstrate they are fully aware of the differences between a university and a debating society.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if 2C of warming (best-case scenario) means two billion people die, and 3C (apparently more likely) means four billion people die, doesn't this mean we should be treating every single politician opposed to climate mitigation as One Of History's Greatest Monsters? why aren't we doing that?
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I think a lot of folks in the US Episcopal context want to turn Anglicanism into an aesthetic when it isn’t one. You can be 100 percent Anglican with a praise band and screens in church.
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Chris Clare DJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A parody of a 'Now that's what I call music' album cover, with a blue watery background. It reads 'Now thank we all our God'
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Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The statement from the local MP expressing concern about minority ethnic people being misidentified as asylum seekers implies, perhaps inadvertently, that violence targeted at asylum seekers and their homes is legitimate.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is an attempted lynching, which will be treated with much less seriousness then pensioners holding up Palestine Action placards.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tip for top education journalists: Dr James Orr of Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity's 'Key publications' list include "Being and Eternity: Phenomenology and Thomism in Edith Stein (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022)." Bloomsbury's online catalogue lists no such item. Time to do some hunting?
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James Orr: Reform UK's Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Aside from *everything else*, this continues a dangerous tradition of politicians wearing police uniforms. Politicians should not be allowed to use 'POLICE' uniforms. For one thing because they are not police.
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Heck, part of the context that has collapsed is even people's knowledge of what critical writing *in the LRB* is sometimes like. If you think Wilson is confrontational, dig out Helen Vendler and Eric Griffiths on Dante...
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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
All the metaphors we use to describe heedlessly pursuing one's own destruction - lemmings, cargo cults, Easter island, etc. - are actually colonial myths based on mistakes or lies. The real analogy for heedlessly pursuing one's own destruction is the colonial society itself.
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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
sometimes the recycling sends you a message
A cardboard box full of household rubbish, on top of which sits a cardboard sign saying ABIDE in capital letters.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I like it when problematic people confront their problematic subject and for once aren’t a problem about it. In this case, it’s Augustine and his fraught relationship with sex. Gives me hope for myself and my million problems. Guys, I am such a problem.
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