Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 5hA revealing account about how scholarship, archaeology, and popular consumption of religious narrative works, from one of the most creative thinkers in our field. 064
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 19hI have only listened to Portnoy a couple of times. He's dumb as a post. Why would anybody want to listen to him talk about anything? He's the Jim Cramer of sports. 000
Reposted by Mark McEntireWuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass 1073243535218
Reposted by Mark McEntireEric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social · 04/10/20261/13 We’ve talked a bit about Ron Wyatt in connection with Durupınar. Noah’s Ark was only one of an extraordinary number of “discoveries” he claimed to have made, but without any evidence to back those claims up. So let’s spend a little time with Mr. Wyatt. 🧵 #NoahsArk #Archaeology ronwyatt.comronwyatt.comThe Discoveries of Ron Wyatt - Official WebsiteExplore Ron Wyatt's archaeological discoveries including Noah's Ark, Red Sea Crossing, Mount Sinai, Sodom & Gomorrah, Ark of the Covenant, and Joseph's Pyramids. 142
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Somebody from Iowa please tell me that everybody who lives in the state knows the steel mill thing is a scam. 010
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My reading of Matt 6:1-6 is not the same as everyone else's. That's okay. I hear Jesus warning his hearers about putting their piety/religious practice on public display. Large swaths of Christianity resist this. People like Tim Tebow make millions of dollars putting their faith on public display. 010
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This was a whole "Leave it to Beaver" episode. 020
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Saying you are going to "engage culture" implies that there are times when you are not engaging it. It's nonsense, like deciding I'm going to engage the air today. 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People of Tennessee, can we just stop trying to be horrible! 030
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Christian influencers" should not be a thing. 020
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026All year long. Never ready to play when the game starts, as if the first pitch took them by surprise. 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tennessee. Even when all we are trying to do is be the worst state in the country, we fail at that. Can we finally stop state supported murder? 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cubs need to visit the Wizard of Oz. No heart. No courage. No brains. 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is your brain on drugs. The fried egg was too effective an image. 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not as directly modality, but the potential interpretations of ויכה in Isaiah 37:36 are significant in Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" (a classic in the science-fiction/cyberpunk genre). Is it a direct "strike" by the angel that kills the Assyrians or a more indirect use of a water-born illness? 130
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I thought the choice by Mumford and Sons to use this word (Steinbeck's spelling) as a song title was curious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=742C...youtube.comTimshelYouTube video by Mumford & Sons - Topic 020
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't even understand why persons who are not government officials are signing their names on executive orders. 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Cubs need a manager who will consistently inform the players when they have a game and what time it starts, then help them get ready to play. Instead, we have a manager who once thought it was a great idea for them all to go to the track together. 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can we back up and note that Eric Schmitt had apparently decided before this that tying his own political future to JD Vance was a brilliant move? 010
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The guy just did the dumbest , most embarrassing thing in the 250 year history of the United States Senate, and he is pretending it all went according to plan. 001
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A fitting end tonight, as the Cubs show up completely in playing baseball. 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I want to borrow Jack Smith's What-the-F**k-Are-You-Talking-About face. 110
Reposted by Mark McEntireRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way. 210122693898
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So, when Thiel publishes his lectures on the Anti-Christ in print form, will it be classified under autobiography? 120
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026First law for the new Congress in January: If you create an AI tool and it commits a crime, it's the same as if you did it personally. 010
Reposted by Mark McEntireRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this. 892163717
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Time to start getting a position in the Mike Tomlin sweepstakes 000
Reposted by Mark McEntireRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. 720160476065
Reposted by Mark McEntireRev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It is such a weak and fragile god who needs a political party, a president, a Supreme Court, and a nation to defend them and fight their battles for them. God does not need your defense. The poor, the hungry, the sick, the disabled, the children, the immigrant, and the powerless do. 522065
Reposted by Mark McEntireJulie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This needs to be a much bigger story. "Those officials said some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir."gizmodo.comPentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian ChildrenAn unreleased Pentagon probe investigated the kill chain that hit a school in Minab. 29658
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People are concerned about Abdul El-Sayed gaining access to classified information if elected to the U. S. Senate. This is the same access we gave to Louis Gohmert, Lauren Boebert, Michelle Bachman, Matt Gaetz, Madison Cawthorn, Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos...need I go on? 263
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It would have been nice if they had cared as much about a baseball game in Cincinnati as they did about a horse race in Louisville. Some nights it seems like they don't give a fuck and that's very frustrating. 100
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Very much like a run-in with law enforcement from my own youth. We were asked to leave town and followed to the city limits. 110
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Only one out of 435 was right. That would seem to end against all odds. 010
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If the Pentagon really is lying about the number of American military personnel killed in the Iran war, doesn't every Congressional race become 100-0? 000
Reposted by Mark McEntireHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it. 809165105337
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Does this start a new set of three after Dolly, Wendell, and Gloria I'm going to be dreading reading the news. I read Pilgrim with a lot of students over the years. Her brilliance as an observer of the world astonished me. 000
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026He "specializes" in a lot of things. Not sure that word means what he thinks it means. 010
Reposted by Mark McEntireThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is. 362137614962
Reposted by Mark McEntireThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die. 681208716137
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And here's me thinking that the victim of bestiality could only be the animal. 020
Reposted by Mark McEntireRobert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Trump's call to abandon democracy in the name of God--this is one of the central themes of my new book BACKSLIDE: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation after the Christian Turn Against Democracy. bookshop.org/a/56272/9781...bookshop.orgBackslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy“Bracing—Jones presents a vision of America as “fallen into... apostasy.” But he remains hopeful, noting that “backsliding is not irreversible,” as “repentance is possible... with confession” and the ... 1223
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm not saying they're bad, but somehow I got through 23 years of schooling as a student without ever seeing a grading rubric. I never even heard the word. I would have had to look it up. 010
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I hate how GWB was sanctified for the easiest, most obvious actions in the aftermath. 001
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I just confirmed my voter registration in Tennessee. It took 30 seconds. It's a good time to check yours too. tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/...tnmap.tn.govTN Voter Registration Information Lookup 010
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026There has to be an investigation. That was ridiculous. The game was obviously over. If Michigan had any honor they would forfeit the game. How embarrassing for Michigan and the officials. 010
