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Keanu M. Heydari

@keanuheydari.bsky.social
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Pursuing an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary | Ph.D., History, University of Michigan (2026) | PC(USA) Inquirer | Modern Europe & Iran | Reformed systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament studies 🌐 www.keanuheydari.com 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇷

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 21h
it's an incredible chauvinism of perspective which is incompatible with actual respect for other people with their own experiences of the world & that's surely part of why TERFs also tend to be racists & other varieties of asshole. they remain 'incurvatus in se', bound to the very essence of sin.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 23h
I love her.
Nigella Lawson says food shouldn’t be talked about as naughty.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
In love with this song from Sandra McCracken’s new EP.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Got the sweetest email today from a pastor who read (and appreciated!) my piece on Grimké’s prayer journal. Here it is if you haven’t seen it yet.
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Something to Say to God: Francis Grimké and the Keeping of a Prayer Journal
“Each day make a list of the things to be prayed for,” wrote Francis Grimké, “so that when we enter our closet we shall have something to say to God.” A post on the old pastor of Fifteenth Street, a r...
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I recommend the collection of essays called “Orthodox and Modern” by Bruce McCormack, particularly this essay in the volume.
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Less than a week until our (hybrid!) seminar @ihr.bsky.social - 'Race and the Rent Collector' with Jonah Miller: how did social investigators in 2 formative periods of British sociology account for difference in studies of poverty & the working class. Full details & sign-up: tinyurl.com/4s8ch5bb
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Race and the Rent Collector: Housing, Migration, and Sociology in Modern Britain
Migration and Mobility History
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“We believe our nation desperately needs healing, not another occasion to normalize violence. True justice honors victims and upholds human dignity.” – @pcusa.bsky.social
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A statement on the planned livestreaming of an execution
There are moments when silence risks becoming acceptance, and when the church is called to speak with moral clarity. We believe this is one of those moments. As leaders of the General Assembly of the ...
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Highly recommend.
Cover of Hernan Diaz’s “Ply”
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m not sure who needs to see this, but the only universe in which AI can “feel” anything at all is when people intentionally redefine the parameters of consciousness to serve the interests of capital.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“Long ago (πάλαι; formerly) God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds.” – Hebrews 1:1–2 (NRSVue)
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
From FTWeekend, p. 2.
Daughter of Trump's chief of staff works at Republika Srpska lobbyist

The daughter of Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff, is working for a US lobbying firm that signed a $35,000-a-month contract to represent Republika Srpska, a Balkan entity at the centre of a new dispute over conflicts of interest inside the White House.
Katie Wiles is a partner at Continental Strategy, which signed up as lobbyist for the self-governing entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina in February.
The firm said she had not lobbied US officials on behalf of the enclave. In September, Susie Wiles met Zeljka Cvijanović, the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, according to Cvijanović's social media account. The meeting was requested by Continental Strategy partner Alex Garcia, said US officials.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The purity of the church is always threatened by “traditionalists.”
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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this caught my eye in the latest issue of HTR—re: empathy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Empathy and the Origins of Christianity | Harvard Theological Review | Cambridge Core
Empathy and the Origins of Christianity - Volume 119 Issue 3
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Looks fascinating, I’m going to give this one a read.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Conservatives like to shit on the “social gospel” and talk about empathy as if it were a bad word. But Jesus, being God, wouldn’t have taught the things he did – I believe – if he weren’t God. Absolute and unqualified love, peace and reconciliation with enemies, etc., these do not come from man.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To be a hermeneutist of suspicion is not to necessarily think the thing you are suspicious of intrinsically bad. To bring a Foucaultian perspective to therapy is not to repudiate mental health care, only to understand the form this takes is inseparable from a historical, social and economic context.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
God certainly does, make no mistake. This is more about human ethics rather than God’s commandments, if that makes sense.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I would not take communion in an evangelical “church,” and I believe in an open table. The cult of the empire and the church of the crucified Nazarene cannot be in communion.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is the fate of empires, as their collapse draws near, to sink ever deeper into depravity, and to mistake each new excess for proof of their enduring strength.
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Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
The US Defence Secretary says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My Ambien adventures.
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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 07/10/2026
YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“We come before you again with the heartfelt prayer that you accept us, that you allow us no rest until we come to rest in you; that you fight both against us and for us until your peace takes its rightful place in our hearts, thoughts, words, essence, and our dealings with one another.” – Barth
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is indeed strange for Protestants to be so committed to the “right to life” that they are willing to deprive terminally ill patients of pastoral and liturgical accompaniment before they die because they fetishize suffering as theologically virtuous.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bally Bagayoko who is the mayor of French city Saint-Denis shouts at police to "Stop!" and protects the student protesters
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Le marketing, ça tue la réflexion théologique.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Take it from me: these are the best index cards on the market. They come in graph, ruled, and blank, and in different colors. They are archival quality, as well. You can get them at remarkable prices from The Goulet Pen Co. Amazon’s prices are outrageous.
Pack of 100 green, grid-ruled Exacompta Bristol index cards (125×200 mm) in orange-and-white packaging.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donc je pense que c’est théologiquement juste de louer Dieu précisément pour notre finitude, nos limites. Sinon, on risque de tomber dans l’idolâtrie, i.e., le désir d’autre chose que ce qui est vraiment humain.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
C’est une préoccupation tout à fait légitime, ce que tu viens de soulever. Je parle d’un point de vue résolument barthien et du coup, je rejette toute idée de « divinisation ». On est des créatures et Dieu est notre créateur. Il y a une différence qualitative infinie entre les humains et Dieu.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anne, mon amie, explique-moi, s’il te plaît, pourquoi tu vois les choses ainsi.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How did my advisor’s marginalia on my dissertation’s table of contents appear on this sign?
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Separatism? In this economy? This is highly inconvenient for my plans to institute a United Federation of Planets-style, one-world government, Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communist utopia.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/
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marlo @marlo.ooo · 06/10/2026
every day i learn something new and my burden becomes greater. i am like the atlas of trivial bullshit
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Huh.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We profoundly disagree about this topic, but I appreciate you sharing your position. Thank you.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What does it mean to “share” in God’s divinity?
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thankfully, we don’t need to become God (“theosis”) because Jesus already did that.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The nice thing about being a left-wing Protestant is that I have the ability to dismiss bad ideas. This includes the fundamentally reactionary project of inclusive orthodoxy.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Inclusive orthodoxy” “Reformed *and* Catholic” “Traditional *and* progressive” all I can do is wonder to myself why so many people are pulled into the cruel optimism of a ‘tradition’ that hates their existence and only desires their destruction
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ponder the Nothingness. Its allure is easy to grasp in a world that has betrayed its origin in the goodness of the Creator Spirit. We mistake our finitude for imperfection, and so we long to become gods. Nothingness feeds that longing and has only futility to give. Thanks be to God for our flaws.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Final exam where you have to discuss four culturally significant examples of people falling out of and/or being pushed out of windows.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You don't even want to graph this back to 1780
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
True about absolute US numbers, but CO2 is the *mechanism* behind this and not the “cause.” CO2 is in the atmosphere because fossil fuels are profitable, and decoupling is still far too slow. I’m not sure your response caught the spirit of my post, which laments our impending planetary collapse…
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having grown up in Brentwood, I can say that I’ve never seen temperatures get this high until relatively recently. This is all quite discouraging. What do you do to confront the desire for infinite growth and fight against the seemingly endless greed that has destroyed and is destroying our planet?
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brentwood (in West Los Angeles) doesn’t have its own official weather station, but I decided to take a look at (nearby) UCLA’s data, and it seems that most of the triple-digit temperatures on record are in recent memory: 100° in ‘17, 111° in ‘18, 105° in ‘20, 104° in ‘22. It was 101° today.
Weather app forecast for Brentwood, West Los Angeles, with today’s high of 101° circled in yellow and temperatures cooling to the 60s with rain by the following week.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“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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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
One of my favorite paintings.
“Raining Cats,” by Rebecca Salinas, acrylic, 2020
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