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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Really delighted to see that my introduction to a Literature & Theology special forum on how we engage with fascist thinkers in the field is now available on advanced access: academic.oup.com/litthe/advan...

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Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology

Abstract. The introduction to the special forum on Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology reviews the history of the journal's engagement with the

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Arriving today: author book copies! Hurray!

Six copies of the book _A Theology of Particularity_, lying on a walnut table. The books have a black cover; a photograph on the front shows a detail of a body with the lorem ipsum text written on it. Photograph courtesy Alana Vincent.

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's hardcover publication day for A Theology of Particularity! To celebrate, here is the discount flyer again. #theology #literature

A flyer advertising a discount for a book called A Theology of Particularity: Unruly Bodies and the Stories They Carry (T&T Clark). In the top left corner is a reproduction of the cover, with a black and white photo of a person partially in shadow, the lower part of their face and top of their chest showing in the light, with Loren ipsum written on their skin. The discount code is GLR AT8 for 35% off purchases of the hardcover edition at bloomsbury.com/9781978713710

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This 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...

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A Theology of Particularity: A Conversation with the Rev. Dr. Mark Godin

A lecture and conversation about discerning the body, the unruliness of flesh, and the stories our bodies carry.

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alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'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.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It 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.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I still can’t decide which is the deadlier and sharper knife.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Going 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.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So the first time you go to the local arthouse cinema, you should not assume that it only has one screen.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The 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-...

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A Theology of Particularity

This 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…

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It really felt like they just slapped that ending dialogue on in editing. What could possibly have been worse?

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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m gonna open a bakery and call it ACCEPT ALL COOKIES

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Haven'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.

Bret Goldstein as Roy Kent glares to the side.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hi. I do both formatting and indexing, usually using the most recent Chicago style. If you would like a quote, you can DM me with some more details about the project.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/07/2026

Excessive 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

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Some 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?

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I don’t think it’s a good sign if a bagel shrinks into itself at the touch of butter.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 26/03/2026

Me, when students ask if they can use whatever citation style they were taught at school.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sad 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.

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Conservative 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

Aaron Gunn: If the federal government truly believes in the private property rights of Canadians, they should probably stop opening every public meeting by proclaiming the gathering on the “unceded territory” of this or that First Nation.
Doing so reinforces the radical and dangerous legal concept that most Canadians live on “stolen land”. This is Canada. One country. For all Canadians.

𝗠𝗣 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙣: “𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙭, 𝙗𝙪𝙙.”
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Chiefs from four First Nations communities are urging the public to please approach Aaron Gunn with no caution whatsoever. He is completely harmless, though momentarily unsettled by the alarming possibility that someone might acknowledge the land before a meeting.
Yesterday on social media, the MP appeared to crash out and demand to speak to the manager of land acknowledgements, a position that observers confirm does not exist.
Chiefs whose territories make up the riding had two words for the MP - Chillax, Bud.
Land acknowledgements have never seized private property, cancelled a mortgage, repossessed a pickup truck, or altered a single title deed anywhere in Canada.
They are simply people recognizing the history of the place where they are standing.
No one is going anywhere. Canada will survive the brief moment of honesty.
Until then, Chiefs across the region continue to reassure the public that land acknowledgements have not, to date, resulted in any land back.
Hegus John Hackett, Tla’amin Nation
Chief Darren Blaney, Homalco Nation
Chief Nicole Rempel, K'ómoks Nation
Chief Kevin Peacey, Klahoose Nation

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The author of the piece I’m copy-editing has (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2016) in the text but Cave, N., & The Bad Seeds in the Reference List. Consistency demands the in-text citation be (Cave et al. 2016) but while technically correct that does not feel right.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

If it were footnotes and biography, it would be simple—I would shrug and leave it as Cave, Nick, & The Bad Seeds. It would be easy to find and the footnote would also be simple. But author-date makes it more difficult.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Nod. (Cave et al. 20xx) just feels rather odd for referring to an album…

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

And the whole question started with reflecting on the in-text citation format. Curse you, author-date!

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

An 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 ?

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I 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.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The apology is here: bsky.app/profile/urc....

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Note: the post in question has now been deleted, and an apology put up by the URC’s social media team—but the Daily Devotion remains as it was.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I say all of this as a Presbyterian minister who, when I lived in England, served for a time as a minister of the United Reformed Church, and remain a member of the denomination’s Inter Faith Enabling Group. We can do better.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

such laziness has and will continue to be used to promote violence against Jews.” From the chapter “Judeophobia and the Pharisees” by Meredith J. C. Warren, Shayna Sheinfeld, and Sara Parks.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

To quote from Judeophobia and the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2025) p. 45, in the current political climate, “the way we use ‘Pharisees’ in classrooms and churches is one area where we do not want to be lazily reinscribing harmful caricatures;

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Would any of this had been noted if the social media post had not linked the devotion to Holocaust Memorial Day? Don’t know, but with or without this shocking juxtaposition, churches have to do better in all our actions towards people of other religious traditions.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The daily devotion linked to in the post and officially produced by a relatively progressive Christian denomination repeats stereotypes of specific 1st-century Jewish groups without any critical reflection on the text, simply using them as representative of ”false teaching and unhealthy influence”.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This 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.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/01/2026

My 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...

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Thousands rally against immigration enforcement in subzero Minnesota temperatures

Police have arrested about 100 clergy who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A 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).

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Well. I guess this is a professional challenge.

Screenshot of a GIF from a Merriam-Webster post saying “Your 2026 Word: hopeful”

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A 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

Drawing of a duck looking at a flier for curling lessons

That same duck on a podium winning first prize with a medal and crown

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/12/2025

I have my coffee

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The 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...

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An Infallible Ranking of Crime-Solving Clergy - Reactor

There's a surprising amount of crossover between sleuthing and pastoral care.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

In many ways that fits so much.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

In 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...

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Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence

Dragon 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…

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Happy World Linguistics Day, from Umeå, Sweden!

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Very interesting article on the deaf community, language and power.

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The first book I thought of in response to this was Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage, but others have got there first. Also, Premee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning Grass and Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors.

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