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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 9h

Madison says it’s fine, she’s switching to gel pens anyway, / and her brother Tyler’s at the high school now, / he says nobody even cares over there. / I asked my mom in the Target parking lot / if anything is allowed to last, / and she said, honey, get in the car.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 10h

“Always remember that this is the hour of crisis: it is high time for you to wake out of sleep, for deliverance is nearer to us now than it was when first we believed. It is far on in the night; day is near.” – Romans 13:11–12 (REB)

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 14h

I love theological ressourcement. But when a figure’s theology has done grave harm in the real world, the “reclaiming” has to begin by saying so explicitly, and then show why the retrieval is necessary at all, let alone beneficial.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is no such thing as a humane execution.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tove has helped me so much over this past month. She has taught me more about myself than I have learned on my own over many years. Her poetry, in particular, has devastated me, and in breaking me, has helped me to see the beauty in the fractures of our dreams and nostalgia.

Four books by Tove Ditlevsen: “The Copenhagen Trilogy,” “Vilhelm's Room,” “The Faces,” and “The Trouble with Happiness.”

Cover of “There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die.”

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am so grateful to journalists who are still doing their jobs and still abiding by SPJ ethics. I am thankful that they are still writing and posting about the accelerating decline of the United States into authoritarianism and fascism. If it weren’t for their fighting spirit, I would have given up.

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

him: AI is not conscious and will never replicate human intelligence me: unlike AI the human being essentially occurs in his essence only where he is claimed by being. Only from this dwelling does he "have" "language" as the home that preserves the ecstatic for his essence. We are not the same

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyone else get the CVS class action lawsuit email? I was like wow $25 million!!! And then I saw you could get max $10. No thanks lol

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I affirm the Easter message as the true disclosure of the kerygma. This does not change the fact that, experientially, dogmatically, theologically, etc., etc., Good Friday is an infinitely more significant event.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you are invited to her gallery opening

A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Children,” by Tove Ditlevsen, in “There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die”

Children
My heart loves all the most impossible children, those no one cares for and no one understands.
The liars, the thieves, the promise-breakers, the children all adults love to reprimand.
I care not for those flowerbed children who thrive in neat rows and are strangers to want and shame.
The children whom adults dotingly trim into shape and who can in good conscience call God by name.
The ones who know love best are those who never met it.
The sinner knows more of virtue than most would assume.
I loathe the pruning shears upstanding adults wield.
Wild bushes are where the rarest flowers bloom.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the Incarnation, the God-man is not an accommodation of an otherwise “unknown” Son. God’s eternal act of self-determination to be God-for-us in Jesus Christ *constitutes* God as Trinity.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A few people have (surprisingly) sent me emails in response to my absurdly long post about “Reading Marks.” I am grateful for the feedback and honestly shocked that some of you even bothered to read it. The most common question I received was not actually about annotations, but about motivation!

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now is the time for your loving, dear And the time for your company Now when the light of reason fails And fires burn on the sea; Now in this age of confusion I have need for your company

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Richard & Mimi Fariña : Children Of Darkness

YouTube video by paganmaestro

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On abstraction without desire On naked solitude On the marches of death I write your name And for the want of a word I renew my life For I was born to know you To name you Liberty. – Éluard Slava Ukraini

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Le Musc du Consultant, le nouveau parfum Dior

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The most important minute in the history of recorded media.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The logic of incarceration runs so deep in American political culture that “justice” has become indistinguishable from confinement. To prevail over an opponent is to lock them away, in prose if not in prison. Perhaps we must side with Agamben: “I do not support any form of punishment.”

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Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben. Eichmann, Law and Justice. 2009 4/7

YouTube video by European Graduate School Video Lectures

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will be presenting at the American Academy of Religion on Monday, November 23, in Denver. My paper is titled "Making Barth Useful? American Reception and the Critique of Religion."

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Karl Barth and Judgment | AAR Annual Meeting

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Talking with @2024shawn.bsky.social gets me to say sh*t like “There is a large measure of unpredictability… More than that, there is, as the French say, a degree of le caractère aléatoire - a sort of existential randomness, here.”

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Mike Koncewicz @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone recently posted the hard-to-find 1974 documentary Introduction to Enemy, featuring Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden in Hanoi and Quang Tri province in the South. youtube.com/watch?v=MD26...

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Found out that I was published! The review I wrote came out in August, but I didn't realize it was online until today. Reviewed work: "Apocalypses in Context: Apocalyptic Currents Through History," 2nd Edition. : Fortress Press, 2025. xiv + 477 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 9781506487946.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is an obscene pleasure, a thrill, a delicious vindictiveness in pressing the unsubscribe button on a marketing email. O to exercise increasingly marginal acts of agency in a society defined more and more by pointlessness.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And I am of no use unlike people out there, but in my mind’s dark refuge something is renewed – and something knotted daily is soundlessly undone as a branch at dawn sway’s in a bird’s wake – Tove Ditlevsen

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.’” – Matthew 21:31 (NRSVue)

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Safavid dress. Very demure, very mindful.

Unknown artist, Shah ʿAbbas II and the Mughal Ambassador, ca. 1663, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 24.2 × 33.2 cm, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, AKM 00153, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abbas_II_of_Persia_and_the_Mughal_ambassador.jpeg.

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Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m shocked. Shocked, I say.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

❌ Lewis’ Narnia ✅ Kafka’s The Castle ❌ Flannery O’Connor ✅ Kleist’s The Marquise of O ❌ Bernanos’ Diary of a Country Priest ✅ Büchner’s Lenz ❌ Robinson’s Gilead ✅ Laxness’ Under the Glacier

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As for me, I’m a partisan of ineffective egoism. Effective altruism never sat well with me.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

APs need to go. But there’s too much money in it.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bolognese and spinach fresh fettuccini

Bottle and glass of Rioja and a bowl of pasta on a shallow blue and white bowl

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This piece has been a decade in the making, and it is finally ready to be shared. It is still being revised as I continue to use it. It was a labor of love, and I hope it will be useful, both to you and to your students.

keanuheydari.com

What is a Mark For?

A system for marking books and keeping notes that can be cited

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi folks, apparently the situation at Edinburgh is not as straightforward as the Catholic Herald article suggested, which many have told me is misleading in some respects. I’m going to do more research and reach out to friends there to see what’s going on.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t have any more patience for gay men who are part of the “inclusive orthodox” community. What gets me is the unvarnished ignorance of history and the deeply ironic commitment to a fundamentalism that can only arise from a very unique and historically contingent kind of privilege.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I want to meet Pam. I want to discuss Moltmann’s “The Crucified God” with her. I want to understand why she thinks the Crucified One, who so earnestly loves her, does not love her queer and immigrant neighbors.

“…arises when one asks what is the cause of the suffering of the God who suffers with imprisoned, persecuted and murdered Israel.
Does he merely suffer for human injustice and human wickedness? Does the Shekinah, which wanders with Israel through the dust of the streets and hangs on the gallows in Auschwitz, suffer in the God who holds the ends of the earth in his hand? In that case not only would suffering affect God's pathos exter-nally, so that it might be said that God himself suffers at the human history of injustice and force, but suffering would be the history in the midst of God himself. We are not concerned here to set up paradoxes, but to ask whether the experiences of the passion and the suffering of God lead into the inner mystery of God himself in which God himself confronts us.” – Moltmann, “The Crucified God”

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

By night, we hasten in darkness to search for living water, only our thirst leads us onwards, only our thirst leads us onwards.

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By Night

YouTube video by In God Alone: Songs of Taize - Topic

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The eternal Son’s self-emptying consists in God’s decision made in election. The Son eternally wills to receive a human life as his own and to live it in a mode of “ontological receptivity” (McCormack), taking on the limitations of that life, including its suffering and its death, as truly his.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Free Will™ used as a rhetorical cudgel to defend God from moral culpability is not only boring, but also itself morally reprehensible. To think that an infinite being could hold finite creatures that it created to account, with infinite consequences, is to create a totally unnecessary dilemma.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey! Instead of reading the books listed in Jacobin’s “Five Essential Books for Understanding Imperialism,” you should read this one book instead. Not only will you save time, but you will also not fall asleep.

Cover of Ann Laura Stoler’s “Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's ‘History of Sexuality’ and the Colonial Order of Things.”

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Focus” is now a commodity while “attention” is spoken of in economic terms. I suspect that this kind of focus, that this kind of attention, is just channeled distraction. I suspect that real focus and real attention arise in affective ecologies where anxiety isn’t the dominant structuring mood.

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