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Marika Rose

@marika.bsky.social
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Communist theologian. Angelologist. “Too angry and gratuitously crude” - Church Times

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’ve put together a fall syllabus drawn from more than five decades of scholarship in the Journal of Palestine Studies & our digital encyclopedia, PalQuest. Use it to build a course, anchor a thesis, or simply read more deeply this semester. #BackToSchoolWithIPS
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 6h
Remembering that there’s at least two direct lines between James Orr and an overtly fascist bookshop (how, precisely, did Roger Scruton’s personal library end up there? Who controls the Roger Scruton Trust? How did Orr end up giving a lecture on its premises?)
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 22h
Great thread on what looks like a great paper. To paraphrase Public Enemy, “damn right I’m polarized! I got a right to be polarized!”
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Screenshot of 2020 tweet by parody account Theo Broethius: “I'm happy to announce my 1200 page dissertation was accepted as a two volume monograph on the theology of smoking pipes called : "The Puffing Christ: Toward a Peaceful Ontology of Inhalation." Imagine if liberation theology was rigorous and didn't hate white men's culture”Screenshot from theobro article: “Along with subscriptions, which range from $9.99 a month for premium content and $19.99 for VIP access, the company sells a “Christian Nationalist Starter Pack” of books for $99.99 with titles like “White Genocide” and T-shirts emblazoned with “It’s Ok to be White” and “I’ll Take the Christian, Hold the Judeo,” among other slogans. (The group also sells pro-nicotine T-shirts, part of their pro-smoking message.) Subscribers can listen to an audiobook version of Martin Luther’s “On the Jews and Their Lies” as well.”
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Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been working on this for a while about pastors who see the racism and antisemitism of America's past as a feature, not a bug. Meet the Jim Crow Theobros religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"EirGrid is pausing elements of the work required to change operational policy which is necessary to integrate more renewables on the electricity system." CRU clearly stating that data centre demand on the grid is directing capacity away from decarbonisation (and cheaper household bills).
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Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're hiring! 2 Research Fellows to investigate the power of religion in extractive industry struggles - focusing on Brazil or the USA, as part of RAIDS Application deadline Nov 5th, 2026 Full information: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/soci...
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Religious Authority in Extractive Industry Struggles (RAIDS)
The global rush for minerals often overlooks religious authority, which is a hidden force shaping local resistance and corporate power. The ERC-funded RAIDS project aims to explore how religion serves...
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looking forward to this conference on Ecologies of the Afterlife in Bloemfontein, 4-6 November:
Conference poster: Conference: "Ecologies of the Afterlife: Perspectives from Theology and Philosophy" 
Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Religion, Community and Ecologies (CIRRCE) and the Department of Philosophy and Classics.
🗓 Date: 4–6 November  
📍 Location: HMS10, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein Campus  
Engage with leading scholars as they delve into the intersections of theology, ecology, and philosophy and their relevance for the study of the afterlife. 
Spaces are limited, so be sure to secure your spot by emailing: ullrichcd@ufs.ac.za. There remains a significant lacuna in contemporary afterlife studies. Academic discussions of “the beyond” are too often constrained by scientism and physicalism, leaving little space for other ways of knowing and imagining. It is time for the humanities and theology – with their distinct methods, histories, and ecological sensibilities – to loosen this paradigm and engage more fully with questions of the afterlife, finitude, and the more-than-human world.

This call to broaden the conversation is not intended to oppose scientific inquiry; indeed, all renewed attention to the afterlife and to life’s limits is to be welcomed. Rather, our aim is to move beyond the conceptual blinkers imposed by narrowly materialist frameworks, and to open the field to a plurality of perspectives. The study of the beyond – understood cosmologically, theologically, or ecologically – is not the property of any single discipline. Multiple approaches can and should coexist, intersect, and enrich one another.

We therefore invite theologians, philosophers, historians, literary scholars, and researchers across the humanities to re-appropriate and reimagine the afterlife and the beyond as vital sites for philosophical, theological, and eco-critical reflection. Contributions that explore the intersections of theology, ecology, and the more-than-human world are especially welcome, as are those that reconsider how notions of life, death, and renewal might be understood within broader cosmic, cultural, or spiritual contexts.
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What is it with Oxford historians and wild misreadings of Edward Said (from Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads and Noel Malcolm's Useful enemies) (don't worry I know what it is)
Screenshot of text which reads: "In part, this is because of what has been called ‘orientalism’ – the strident and overwhelmingly negative view of the east as undeveloped and inferior to the west, and therefore unworthy of serious study"Screenshot of text: "Again and again, what they show is active—even,
creative—engagement with their Islamic or Ottoman subject matter as part of a larger pursuit of religious and political arguments within their own culture. The Eastern material was not there to be beaten down, as Said imagined, into conformity with complacent Western attitudes; often it was used to shake things up, to provoke, to shame, to galvanize."
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pink is a good word but it's sad that we lost 'incarnate'
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*tearing my own hair out* the word satellite is older than the COLOUR PINK in the english language
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dan Simmons have hated Islam but his novels clearly express the longing for a Catholic-Shia alliance which will save us from ourselves. In this essay I will
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Emmytation @emmytation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
recently reading the Infancy Gospel of Thomas because I couldn't remember all of Little Kid Jesus's curses:
. And the teacher flattered him, brought him into the school, and Zacchaeus wrote the alphabet for him and began to teach him, saying the same letter frequently. But the child didn’t answer him.

And the teacher became irritated and struck him on the head.

And the child became irritated and said to him, “I want to teach you rather than be taught by you, since I know the letters you’re teaching more accurately. To me these things are like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal that don’t bring out the sound, nor the glory, nor the power of understanding.” 

(9) When the child’s anger ceased, he said all the letters by himself, from the alpha to the omega, very skillfully. And looking straight at the teacher he said, “If you don’t know the nature of the alpha, how can you teach another the beta? Hypocrite! If you know, first teach me the alpha, and then I will trust you to speak of the beta.” Then he began to teach the teacher about the first element. And he couldn’t say anything to him.10) While many listened, he said to the teacher, “Listen, Teacher, and understand the arrangement of the first element. Now, notice how it has sharp lines and a middle stroke, which you see pointing, standing with legs apart, coming together, going out, dragging behind, lifting up, dancing around, <…>, in triple rhythm, two-cornered, of the same form, of the same thickness, of the same family, raised, balanced, isometric, of equal proportions. These are the lines of the alpha.”

 

Chapter 7: Zacchaeus’ Lament

(1) When the teacher heard such good familiarity (and) such lines of the first letter Jesus talked about, he was baffled by such teaching and his defense. And the teacher said, “Woe is me! Woe is me! I’ve been baffled and am miserable. I’ve brought shame on myself, taking on this child.

(2) “Take (him) away from me, brother
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Myself, Seán Fearon and Pat Brodie have published a report today examining the exaggerated benefits and significant costs of data centres to Ireland. Below is a short thread on some of the key takeaways. Read the full report here: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/21... 1/6
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 22/09/2026
Andy Burnham is set to support Saudi Arabia's barbaric bombing campaign in Yemen. Yemen has already faced one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with famine, cholera outbreaks and the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. This is a shameful decision.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*horrific racist fascist blackshirt actions* UK gov official: first of all, they are correct in their beliefs, however they should trust us to enact the violence and racism, can’t they see how good we are at it Burnham on tiktok : hey kids check out this barm! What am i like eyy up
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
ME: i just feel like you're always bringing your work home with you GUARD WHO TELLS ONLY LIES: no I'm not
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
there is no sensible reason why a 5 year spouse visa cost us a little over fourteen grand. none whatsoever. and that's before you break it down to the addition of renewals every 30 months, the health surcharge, the endless price hikes, the final kick in the teeth for ILR (three grand! to settle!)
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martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
well
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The Good Road" by Carlota McAllister situates Guatemala’s early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/5rm5G8l
over of The Good Road: A K’iche’ Revolutionary Theopolitics by Carlota McAllister. The cover features a mural of a red truck carrying a group of people with two people behind it pushing. The title is in white serif letters across the center. A red background fades upward into the photograph. The subtitle is in smaller white serif text beneath the title, below is a dotted line then the author’s name in pale yellow italics.
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divyabot @thedivyabot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bet on Palestinian life. This is a quick way to give to the most stagnant fund I host. Everything is documented transparently. tiny.cc/divyafunds @divyampersaud.com
An artistic graphic decorated with paint brushstrokes and stickers of roses, with the text Stagnant Fund Support and tiny.cc/divyafunds
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Gerard Loughlin @gerardpatrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Former student of suspended Reform official ‘reopens case’ against University of Cambridge
Cambridge previously paid £5,000 compensation after an investigation partially upheld allegations against Dr James Orr
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have a new piece out in @smashmammon.bsky.social about social reproduction and the entanglement of care and violence: christiansocialism.com/2026/09/15/l...
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Love in a World Built on Exploitation: Caring in the House of Capital - Institute for Christian Socialism
From unpaid domestic labor to the church, the care that keep us alive is never free from the structures of power in which it takes place.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 17/09/2026
having to know about the sex lives of the worst and most annoying people to understand why computer discourse bad is just one of the great indignities of our times
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reading about Janissaries who seem to have been a really odd hybrid of slaves and public school kids; slavery without social death?
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majsaleh @majsaleh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Troubles, but both sides are the loyalists.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us
Painting of snaking flowering brown tendrils of human hairs with blue human eyes stashed on the unfinished head of a figure with only the eyes and brows partially painted in, the rest of the face sketched out in pale pencil but almost invisible
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A pattern i've noticed since working on opening a radical bookshop: Troskyites get in touch to donate books while Stalinists get in touch to sell you books.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
White British people are going to be really surprised when it turns out that the Perfidious Turk can fill in the forms required to register for this and this doesn't magically turn every barber white.
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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
dogwhistle
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 14/09/2026
Shocking development from a European leader who has never seen a genocidal regime indiscriminately slaughtering Muslims that she didn’t love
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seldondance.bsky.social @seldondance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hallucinated citations don't just err — they route credit to names that already carry it. Confabulation reproduces hierarchy. Verification is how the periphery gets heard. #machinelearning #ai seldondance.substack.com/p/the-conj…
The Conjecture Engine — Seldondance essay card (The AI Existentialist series)
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
at this weird age (43) where everyone in their 20s looks like a child and everyone my age is middle-aged. except me, i’m normal age
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Manchester Cathedral @mancathedral.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A message from the Dean: I am saddened to inform you that Canon Andrew Shanks passed away yesterday after a short illness. He served as our distinguished Canon Theologian for many years at Manchester Cathedral 1/2
Photo of Andrew Shanks
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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Extremely funny article, Lammy probably doesn't even realise how revealing statements like this are about the taken-for-granted born-to-rule attitude of the Labour Party towards their constituents www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
everyone, meet Hugo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'
Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ve been dabbling in Rowan Williams recently and increasingly suspect that he’s as evil as Milbank but much more dangerous precisely because he doesn’t sound so evil
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
God have mercy, an old friend of mine was one of Orr’s students who had quit his PhD and can only speak about it now
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The progression of certain thinkers from denying the validity of trans people to denying the validity of disabilities is a nice illustration of the way in which transphobic habits of mind can quickly evolve into a kind of acquired sociopathy.
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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"So Bobby sends out our record with the dead f**king rat in an envelope, and they land with a thud on the desk of every preeminent DJ who immediately refuses point blank ever to play the Boomtown Rats in their life.” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Rat Trap [1978] (Original Video) - The Boomtown Rats
YouTube video by The Boomtown Rats
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“That the university is under attack and that the university is complicit with the very terms of engagement that place it under attack should not be seen as a contradiction.” well goddamn, this is an essay.
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here is a more useful take from my colleague Jordan Sand: www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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