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Kevin O’Farrell

@kevinofarrell.bsky.social
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Theologian. Postulant. Bonhoeffer studies. Disability & Political theology. Book—Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception: www.bloomsbury.com/us/dietrich-bonh…

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's absolutely infuriating that the eugenicists in this administration want to pour tens of millions of dollars into "curing" autism while the research that actually supports disabled people gets gutted. Because they don't want to help the disabled. They want to erase them.
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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
how it feels to be the junior scholar proposing a Bold New Idea at a conference
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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
During the record-breaking heatwave this past week, the Church of England published a theological response to the environmental crises. 'Hope for All Creation' is a teaching document of the Church's House of Bishops. 1/
Front cover and spine of Hope for All Creation. A theological response to the environmental crises.
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Reminds me of when a scholar at a conference on tech and faith told me he would baptize a robot no questions asked At the same conference, someone else argued in their paper that automated robot prayers were no different than prayers offered in a church service
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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I see that preorder is now available for the forthcoming T&T Clark Handbook on Disability & Christian Theology. I wrote the chapter on redemption, so while I’m biased, I think this will be one of the most significant contributions to disability theology to date. www.bloomsbury.com/ca/tt-clark-...
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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It’s wild they’re out here posting just war doctrine, a doctrine that so many of us on the more pacifistic ends of Christianity have often thought poorly of!, and it sounds RADICAL in light of this admin ☠️☠️☠️
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I was invited to be on an interfaith panel focused on church state relationship in the US with most prompts focusing on first amendment and “edge” case scenarios Any recommendations from folks on recent poli sci books / articles related to the topic?
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Sara Carter-Easter @sce007.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I am taking this week off, but I was up early to attend the excellent conclusion of Project Bonhoeffer's Fall seminar sessions. This final session tackled Bonhoeffer and the world of alternative facts. @kevinofarrell.bsky.social work got a well deserved shout out. youtu.be/WrHXBAwlm7A?...
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Truth, Lies and Folly: Bonhoeffer and the World of Alternative Facts - 27th November 2025
YouTube video by Project Bonhoeffer
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 20/11/2025
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
No prizes for guessing who grok chose sorry
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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 13/10/2025
From @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social
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Why we're tempted to - and shouldn't - embrace decline
Or, what I learned at diocesan synod, with a little help from Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Sad day for the Anglican Communion: www.christiandaily.com/news/nigeria...
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Nigeria’s Anglican Church breaks from Church of England over appointment of newly elected same-sex affirming Archbishop of Canterbury
Nigeria’s Anglican Primate, Archbishop Henry Ndukuba, has declared that the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, is severing her spiritual ties and can no longer recognize the leadership of the Chur...
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I’m grateful to finally have this resource I co-authored out in the wild. This new edition aims to equip churches (particularly in the global south) for disability ministry.
joniandfriends.org
New Edition of Beyond Suffering: Transforming Disability Ministry Worldwide | Joni and Friends
Over one billion people worldwide live with a disability, and that number is growing every day. Churches are on the front lines of ministering to those with...
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The hardcover version seems slightly overpriced
Shows three prices for a book. The lowest is 31 usd for kindle and the hardcover is 1037 usd
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Learn from one of the best on a very important and timely topic
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Dave Lilley @davidofbuffalo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The Hebrew Scriptures state that such prior problems multiply—rather than reduce—the wrongdoing of further harm. On Mt Sinai, the Lord declared allegiance with those who have preexisting conditions, and gave a law declaring Israel shall not be if it does not share God's compassion (e.g. Ex 22:21-7).
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"Most of the promotion of A.I. in schools boils down to: Well, it’s happening, and so students need to know. But there’s nothing attaching it to learning outcomes. There’s nothing assessing its risk to privacy, to data, to the mental and emotional and cognitive development of students."
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Get it while you can. It’ll change your life
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Reviews on my Bonhoeffer book are coming out and no one’s called me stupid yet. Theology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Studies in Christian Ethics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Book Review: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception by Kevin O’Farrell - Cody Bivins-Starr, 2025
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Christianity Today @christianitytoday.com · 27/06/2025
On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers who fled persecution for their Christian faith were detained by ICE in Los Angeles. The arrests add to a growing number of church members taken despite lawful status.
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ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution - Christianity Today
On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers were detained in Los Angeles, adding to the count of church members taken despite lawful status.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
One of my fav bits of non-commentary on the pope was when a tv anchor said “it’s important to note that he is Augustinian.” When asked why it was important, she answered “well it is an order in the Catholic Church” and nothing else
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
In his first Sunday address at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine. "I carry in my heart the sufferings of the beloved Ukrainian people. Let everything possible be done to achieve genuine, just and lasting peace as soon as possible⤵️
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Jonathan Howard @jhoward.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI
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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Also from Pope Francis’s Stations of the Cross meditations: “An economy in which the ninety-nine are more important than the one is inhumane. Yet we have built a world that works like that: a world of calculation and algorithms, of cold logic and implacable interests.”
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Apparently Lacan once took the Heideggers on a road trip and his driving was so erratic Martin thought Lacan was testing his authentic being towards death
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
France, the country of true justice
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Nightmare: "The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up."
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Two experiences of the Uffizi Me vs my small child
Michelangelo painting Child in stroller with shade down showing only her feet
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is a great resource from Sociedad Biblia. They are making simple language Bibles that are accessible to people with intellectual disability. They limit the vocab and simplify sentences. They have translated parables, and are now translating the gospel of Luke, Acts, and OT stories.
Cover of booklet with the title Las parabolas dr Jesus en lectura facilA sample page from the booklet of the parable of the Good Samaritan
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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"For Holland (and, frankly, all serious historians and theologians), Western Christianity’s genius is in its pluralism..." Such grounded wisdom in this little essay
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just had dinner with pastors in Barcelona who shared so much wisdom from their history: highlights include navigating religious oppression under Franco, transforming dying churches in a minority faith community (baptists), and 18 year olds coming together to reconcile church divisions of past gens
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Headed back to the UK for the first time since leaving 4 years ago. Feels weird to not go to Faberdeen but it will be good to connect with friends in Bristol and Nottingham.
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 11/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... This is deeply wrong. Coping with disability already brings suffering, discrimination, poverty. There is no evidence that those claiming PIP do so fraudulently. There is evidence wealth is not taxed effectively. Labour do better.
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Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts
PM expected to announce billions in savings from personal independence payment, the main disability benefit
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Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Now live from Prof. Brock's Scott Hawkins Lecture! Click through to read more on his thoughts on AI and Ethical Intelligence! blog.smu.edu/maguireethic...
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AI, Power, and the Future of Autonomy: Key Insights from the 2025 Scott Hawkins Lecture
Artificial intelligence is reshaping political power in ways we barely understand, embedding itself into economic and governance structures that shape human behavior—often without our explicit consent...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students.

Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.
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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Really excellent work by @kevinofarrell.bsky.social.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I can’t handle this painfully naive editorial from my local town paper: “When did the boss asking for a list of accomplishments become a burden? And when did defying the boss become OK?”
The simple power of five is the title of the article

The argument is that DOGE asking for 5 items you did the last week should be seen as an attempt to boost employee morale and culture
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Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Very sorry to hear of the death of Martin Marty, church historian and interpreter of the history of American religion. www.rblandmark.com/2025/02/26/r...
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Rev. Martin Marty, formerly of Riverside, dies at 97  - Riverside-Brookfield Landmark
Martin Emil Marty, a notable former Riverside resident, religious historian and retired University of Chicago Divinity School professor, died in his Minneapolis care community on Feb. 25, 2025. He was...
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Amy Julia Becker @amyjuliabecker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is helpful to explain threats to disability rights at the moment. I loved her conclusion: "While the politicians are still reciting the same script, our revolutionary predecessors gave us a new story. We are a valuable part of our communities, we belong here, & we’ve been shown how to fight.”
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A Lawsuit Threatens the Disability Protections I've Known My Whole Life
Attorneys general from 17 states have argued Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act should be declared unconstitutional
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In-n-out edition of “woe’s hollow” in severance
Placemat from in n out burger showing camping milkshakes and drinks
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Kevin O’Farrell @kevinofarrell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I went to Ukraine in 2021 for my organization. I traveled through the west and my final days were spent in Kyiv. On my finale day, it was their 30th anniversary of independence. I attended their parades and marches. /1
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
How does he have time to read Carl Schmitt??
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