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Nathan Kitchen

@laychristian.com
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Navigating Christianity from laity as an amateur Bible nerd with no relevant qualifications 🇬🇧 Married Dad to 3 ☕️ Drinker of hot beverages 💡https://www.laychristian.com

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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 06/01/2026
This year, Santa brought me @jrdkirk.bsky.social’s “A Man Attested By God”, which I’m enjoying immensely. Kirk articulates a paradigm I think was taught in my church community as “God manifestation”. It’s nice to have a solid academic treatment of this to chew over. Definitely #forbiblenerds.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 21/06/2025
Finally getting around to this, just the sort of thing for the beach on a sunny day 🏖️ Reads clear and concise, feels more like a honed explanation than others in the series. May post some quotes later.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 17/05/2025
New Explorations in Genesis 1, by John Walton… Honestly forgot I’d preordered this, apparently it’s shipping! It was an insta-buy as the latest in the series, so I had no particular expectations. Format appears to be FAQs grouped by topic; you prob have to read the original first : ) #forbiblenerds
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 04/04/2025
Either way, maybe just focus on making everything better for our fellow humans, even if sometimes that is something that causes us loss. As David noted, sacrifice is supposed to cost us something.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 04/04/2025
Is that because the former days are never as great as we remember? Or that present circumstances are always sufficiently different from the past that we always have to face them afresh? Perhaps it’s more philosophical discouragement of enslaving of our agency to the past.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 04/04/2025
Every time I hear about making things great again (this time through tariffs, apparently) I can’t help but think of Ecc 7:10: “Do not say,’Why were the former days better than these?’ For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.”
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 19/03/2025
#forbiblenerds - on preorder on Amazon in the UK, release date of the 29th April. Catch the background on the Bible For Normal People podcast, episode 293 with @savannahlocke.bsky.social and @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social. Looking forward to this one.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 18/03/2025
#forbiblenerds
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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Reading the prophetic and apocalyptic literature in the Bible as if they predicted “tomorrow’s news today” is a gross failure of genre recognition, which has let to fanciful ideas such as an alliance of English-speaking nations against Russia, an idea looking quite fanciful. /1
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 14/01/2025
Well, to his credit, Huff has posted that he said some things which people have pointed out are wrong, and he’s going to do a response video to himself. So, maybe some light at the end of the apologetics tunnel ; )
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 14/01/2025
I subbed to Hoff a few months ago after he did a good (critical) job of reviewing extant NT manuscripts and myths. I’ve been disappointed with some of his content though; even I could tell he was overstating his case in certain areas. Then on Rogan he did the same. Hope he learns from it.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 14/01/2025
#forbiblenerds, sub to the feed here if you’re interested in Bible adjacent publications with an academic focus. bsky.app/profile/layc...
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 09/01/2025
A book #forbiblenerds to enjoy.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 07/01/2025
Interesting comparison of post engagement across social media platforms: tl;dr? X trending down, BlueSky trending up, not *quite* passed each other. Also X is a troll-fest.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 06/01/2025
I did not know this, and I am grateful for it being brought to my attention.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 29/12/2024
Me too! I’ve been collating semi-personal notes on this as an unfinished “hermeneutics” project www.laychristian.com/hermeneutics (Christian perspective). Realised I’d gone down a rabbit hole and made assumptions about where authority is; that’s where I now find the interesting conversations.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 27/12/2024
Realised that my literary diet has been formed of quite dry academic papers of late. This book by @johnhendrix.bsky.social has been a poignant read and visual delight over the Christmas break, and encouraged me to suggest better (i.e., more esoteric) names for the niche communities I start/join.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 18/12/2024
Welcome along @biblefeed.bsky.social, good to see you in the sky 😎 I’ve added you to my starter pack (go.bsky.app/T6BCfgN), daresay there will be a few names you recognise in here.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 12/12/2024
Too many!
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 12/12/2024
You know the algorithm is working when the memes it shows you are a) funny and b) sum up the headache of Biblical authority and interpretation for Lay Christian communities.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 08/12/2024
Woken up by my wife this Sunday morning to discuss the ethics of cancelling house church because our village has a power cut (it’s a Sunday School prize-giving and we’re hosting) Today’s ecclesiastical quandary was brought to you by Storm Darragh 🥱
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 06/12/2024
Looks like something #forbiblenerds to add to their Xmas lists.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 05/12/2024
An unusual topic #forbiblenerds: the contemporary application of apocalypse. Use code 15PRE for a discount on this revised edition.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 01/12/2024
Well, I for one welcome our new psychoanalysing AI overlords. blueskyroast.com/roast/laychr...
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Thomas Horrocks @thomaslhorrocks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
So here’s the thing…even IF there wasn’t a parable *explicitly* undermining this narrow idea of neighbor, Jesus also said “love your enemies.” There’s simply no escaping the fact that Jesus calls us to radically expand our concepts of love and hospitality.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 30/11/2024
…and now the next round in our pub quiz: “Is this about Trump, or Constantine?”,
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 30/11/2024
What do you mean by “we could use a Python package to collate”? I’m in tech, just interested as to whether there are interpretation-adjacent open source packages I could contribute to.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 30/11/2024
Hooray! Welcome along! I’ve got a feed in my profile based on the #forbiblenerds tag if you want to promo any books/publications.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 29/11/2024
Picked up a few good follows from this list.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 29/11/2024
Blocked. That’s… weird of them.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 28/11/2024
The Late Great Planet Earth was a hugely influential work, and not one I’m a fan of. While I was deconstructing from a similar eschatological perspective I wrote a little on what I’d learned about the nature of the prophetic voice: livingfaith.blog/2017/10/11/p...
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Prophet Model: A War of Words
Building a foundation for understanding the message of the prophets
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 27/11/2024
Came across this idea relatively recently and also found it persuasive. Do you rate the book as a whole? Or is it this argument which is particularly good?
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 26/11/2024
Adding to the #forbiblenerds feed.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 26/11/2024
Thanks, will do!
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 24/11/2024
Sharing on the #forbiblenerds feed.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 24/11/2024
Enjoyed that, thanks.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 24/11/2024
Yeah, I’ve had it bookmarked for years. NCSE recently switched to a new gTLD so I thought it was lost; happy to have re-found it.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 23/11/2024
Mind following up with a short answer for the lay people? All I can think is “concentrate more”!
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 23/11/2024
Some time ago I moved from a fundamentalist “global flood” understanding of Noah’s Ark to one which appreciates it as ancient literature with a historical core. This article from @ncse.bsky.social was formative for my understanding of problems taking the narrative literally: ncse.ngo/impossible-v...
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The Impossible Voyage of Noah's Ark | National Center for Science Education
Building the Ark Accommodating All Those Animals Leaving Some Things Behind Sizing Up the Load
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 23/11/2024
A time for everything but best used sparingly: the KJV is truly the Kraft Cheese Slice of Bible translations.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 20/11/2024
I think the general guidance is to avoid the problem in production as it’s hard to fix in post, which isn’t super helpful here. In my limited experience normalise js the button I’d press though : / Thoughts and prayers.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 20/11/2024
Not sure what package(s) you’re using but if there’s a “normalise” button or menu option, that would level the audio across the recording and might be what you’re looking for.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 20/11/2024
“…there is the internal pressure of a self-serving, sentimental quest for low-cost answers to challenges of moral significance – false compassion, over-identification with the supposedly vulnerable, cheap indulgence of the surface wants of self and others.” Oof, that’s a scorcher.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 19/11/2024
"Investigate everything you believe: if it is the truth, it cannot be injured thereby; -if error, the sooner it is corrected the better" - J Foreman, 1859. Words I fell in love with some years ago, which carried me through a long deconstruction and reconstruction loop, and are still my North Star.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 19/11/2024
Thanks much, I’ll check them out once I’ve finished Pagels.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 18/11/2024
@joelduff.bsky.social I’ve added you to my Lay Christianity Starter Pack here: go.bsky.app/T6BCfgN h/t: @kengilmore.bsky.social for the recommend.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 18/11/2024
TIL there’s a Christian flag. What a terrible day to have eyes.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 18/11/2024
Sorry, here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 18/11/2024
I also had this question! I’ve set up a feed called For Bible Nerds here: bsky.app/profile/layc... Anyone using the tag #forbiblenerds on a post with a photo will get it added to the feed. I’ve been doing some myself as I spot them, feel free to subscribe or submit as you find things.
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Nathan Kitchen @laychristian.com · 18/11/2024
#forbiblenerds
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