Reposted by Mark GodinJesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.) 14479187
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's hardcover publication day for A Theology of Particularity! To celebrate, here is the discount flyer again. #theology #literature 042
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is tomorrow! If you are interested in reflecting on ways that theologians might discern bodies better, or work to amend institutional harm, or are just curious, and you are in the Toronto area, you are invited. (A recording will be made available later.) www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-theology...eventbrite.caA Theology of Particularity: A Conversation with the Rev. Dr. Mark GodinA lecture and conversation about discerning the body, the unruliness of flesh, and the stories our bodies carry. 022
Reposted by Mark Godinalice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Moodle Champions explaining how to drag and drop files into a VLE. I’ve watched Learning Technology Advocates demo mentimeter in the dark of a sparsely populated lecture theatre. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. 37326
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Something about a rule. youtu.be/Brq-exSvB7Q?...youtu.beTom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync BattleYouTube video by Comedy Central Asia 010
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It has been a long time coming, and it is a little hard to believe, but the ebook of A Theology of Particularity is now out! To mark the occasion here is a flyer with a discount code for the hardcover, available on 1 October. 072
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Going to see “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”, and my partner has just quipped, deadpan, that I am the oldest and straightest person in the theatre. Hmph. 140
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So the first time you go to the local arthouse cinema, you should not assume that it only has one screen. 010
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The ebook is out in 8 days! And the hardcover a month after that! For anyone interested in how we think about the links between bodies and fiction and religion and theology… www.bloomsbury.com/us/theology-...bloomsbury.comA Theology of ParticularityThis book defines a Christian theology of the body, considering the unruliness of the flesh and the stories our bodies carry.Within the Bible and religious prac… 061
Reposted by Mark GodinJill S @outseide.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I’m gonna open a bakery and call it ACCEPT ALL COOKIES 810517
Reposted by Mark GodinA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Haven't watched yet, but as it has a new season let's bring over to Bluesky my cast list for Lord of the Rings using the cast of S1-3 of Ted Lasso. Let's start with an easy one: Aragorn. No fucking second breakfasts for any fucking hobbits or any other fucking muppets with this Aragorn. 24963233
Reposted by Mark GodinPremee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/07/2026Excessive LOLOLOLOL AI isn't like moving from horse + cart to a Ferrari It's moving into a palanquin: inefficient, a sign of conspicuous consumption from pretentious asshats, movement at the expense of and carried upon the pained backs of stolen/uncompensated labour mostly in the global South 31863251
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Some interesting thoughts on how alternate histories can prompt critical reflection on national myths and why Canadian writers often prefer imagining American histories. What does this say about the Canadian ability to examine our own myths and beliefs about history? 092
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I don’t think it’s a good sign if a bagel shrinks into itself at the touch of butter. 000
Reposted by Mark GodinA. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 26/03/2026Me, when students ask if they can use whatever citation style they were taught at school. 424042
Reposted by Mark GodinA. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 15/03/2026Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible. 7686432593
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026So this is really a thing, available for pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/theology-...bloomsbury.comA Theology of ParticularityThis book defines a Christian theology of the body, considering the unruliness of the flesh and the stories our bodies carry.Within the Bible and religious prac… 031
Reposted by Mark Godinandrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli 18544217
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026An editing question where Chicago18 is letting me down. Putting albums by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in a reference list—I think it should be under N. The author of the piece has it under C. Any opinions, anyone? Thoughts @akma.bsky.social ? 230
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I particularly like how, if you click through, you find that the toolkit turns to various other churches and organisations for many of the training resources, humbly admitting the need to listen to and learn from others. An excellent example for all of us in mainline churches. 081
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026This post demonstrates the continuing need for Christians, especially but not only Christian clergy and other leaders, to have education concerning the history and traditions of Judeophobia in Christian theology and the interpretation of sacred texts. 291
Reposted by Mark GodinKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/01/2026My Catholicism is so lapsed that the Vatican has a photo of me behind the counter saying “Do not accept prayers from this woman.” Nevertheless, a lot of churches of many different denominations are doing a lot of genuinely good things! apnews.com/article/minn...apnews.comThousands rally against immigration enforcement in subzero Minnesota temperaturesPolice have arrested about 100 clergy who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport. 979577
Reposted by Mark GodinHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 13/01/2026A very important thing for you to know about Icelandic is that the word "rassgat" (butthole) is used as an endearment about cute things. So if you say someone is "algjört rassgat" (a total butthole) it means they are VERY cute. If the cuteness is overwhelming we say "rúsínurassgat" (raisin asshole). 26627142
Reposted by Mark GodinAnna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this 341915497
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025The main crimes I was faced with had to do with tastes in hymns and human nature, and both went unsolved. But for more standard mysteries: reactormag.com/an-infallibl...reactormag.comAn Infallible Ranking of Crime-Solving Clergy - ReactorThere's a surprising amount of crossover between sleuthing and pastoral care. 000
Reposted by Mark GodinGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 28/11/2025In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones. Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed — strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...strangehorizons.comPhoton Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim ViolenceDragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b… 15637
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Very interesting article on the deaf community, language and power. 040
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 14/11/2025When I fly back to Canada from my residence in Sweden to visit my parents, the hardest part of the trip is figuring out how I will get from Pearson International to Cambridge without a car. 140
Reposted by Mark GodinBruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 12/11/2025Why I Will Not Be Using AI to Write My Sermons: An encouragement to resist using AI for any part of your sermon writing process www.reyes-chow.com/an-ai-sermon-is-…reyes-chow.comWhy I Will Not Be Using AI to Write My SermonsAn encouragement to resist using AI for any part of your sermon writing process 0104
Reposted by Mark GodinSara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART. 1104184905
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Was following the baseball game using MLB’s live online tracker. There is something incredibly sad at the end of the 18th (!!!) inning, watching those tiny sigils, CF and 1B and C and all, wandering desultorily off the little green diamond, like a dejected alphabet wiped from a board. 020
Reposted by Mark GodinHannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025My article on the use of “Render unto Caesar” to support secularism and exclude Islam is published in Critical Research on Religion (open access): doi.org/10.1177/2050...doi.orgRendering unto Caesar: Receptions of the Bible as a source for secularism - Hannah M Strømmen, 2025In this article, I identify a key trend for demarcating the “secular” as a Western, Christian achievement. I analyze how the New Testament story often known as ... 066
Reposted by Mark GodinCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/20259. As a species, we have figured out war to an astonishing degree. We are still working on the ability to hold peace. Real peace requires self-determination and justice. It requires trusting that differences do not make us enemies. 117519
Reposted by Mark GodinJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/09/2025thought the worst thing would be going about daily life while everyone just ignores the collapse of society but it turns out the actual worst thing is having 27 conversations per day that go “did you see the news alert? yeah, bleak times we live in. anyway, can you get this to me by Friday?” 322622
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Ruin a song by adding the word “literally” to the title: New Orleans is Literally Sinking 142
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Dessert mode: ACTIVATE! Best pie: Shoofly Best ice cream: Chocolate star anise Best doughnut: the kind my mom used to make by deep frying sometimes Best bar: salt caramel brownies Best cake: Pistachio rose Best other: maple butter tarts 100
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025vajra.me/2025/08/31/p... “We are at home in the body, but that homeliness makes us parochial. What is required of us is a practice of empathy that is deeply inhuman and unheimlich: to care about every one of us as if they were someone we loved.”vajra.mePersons of StoryA review of KATHAPURUSHAN (1995), and some thoughts on personhood, of story and otherwise. 000
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025For the second time this week, a magpie has flown to the sill outside my study window and knocked with its beak, then paced noisily before leaving. What story am I being invited/dragged into? 000
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 22/08/2025“It’s not overly dramatic to say that we risk losing the capacity for cultures to understand one another better if we’re all simply feeding output into each other’s automated translation systems.” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-... By @bcmerchant.bsky.socialbloodinthemachine.comAI Killed My Job: TranslatorsFew industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories. 010
Reposted by Mark GodinBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Many translators paint a picture of how, despite there being no revolutionary advance in automating translation, the floor began to fall out from the industry around 2023. OpenAI, it seemed, made 'good enough' translations acceptable, and demand for quality work evaporated. 427248
Reposted by Mark GodinChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 20/07/2025so i personally think healthy gratitude practice is not a denial of the pain on this timeline it is an acknowledgment. it is not an invitation to sit back because everything is just fine, it is a CALL to step up and help when you are in the position to. to CHOOSE kindness and service 116914
Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025This looks like a wonderful resource for gardeners in Canada. If only there were something similar for Sweden… 010
Reposted by Mark GodinSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/06/2025'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'404media.coAI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.” 3473228
Reposted by Mark GodinA. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 18/06/2025Nobody knows how this ends. Nobody knows what’s going to matter and what isn’t, in the end. Nobody’s even going to be able to agree on when the end is. That’s not Living In Unprecedented Times, that’s just living, period. 172