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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t really know who this is, but anyone claiming to sell you Wisdom is probably scamming you. Ever since Socrates, the wise do not claim to be (and do not know that they are) wise. There’s my wisdom for you, free of charge. For now.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 5h

It is pretty amazing how much time people will spend to keep driving and how little to consider other ways of getting around.

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Elections Alberta @elections.ab.ca · 6h

2026 REFERENDUM - Today is the final day to vote in advance. Find out where to vote at ow.ly/9mKv50ZYHeS

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 6h

Municipal election day in BC. Go vote BC (if you haven't already)!

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 6h

Yes! I’ve seen people demonstrate that they assume exactly that . when it’s put to them so explicitly they back track, but they argue in ways that demonstrate that they have equated driving with taxpaying and biking with freeloading.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 6h

Autopopulism benefits certain economic actors (and harms others) but its appeal to voters (and hence to governments) is primarily about identity and culture. I think that’s basically right.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ah, those bygone days of youth, taking the ferry to hang out with the Haney cousins.

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Betty White: Sweet Memories

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Are you an Edmonton #yeg resident and have opinions about parking? (I sure do) Share your thoughts with the city (especially if those thoughts are about the costs in externalities and opportunities in "free" parking). cityofedmonton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Residential Parking Program Survey - Oct 2026

Your input will be used to help redesign the Residential Parking Program and how the City manages parking and curbside space.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm not sure either. It is a possibility, though. But that party's policy over the past few years have reduced that possibility by a lot. I actually don't like being partisan on here (or anti-partisan). But i'm coming around to just saying it like it is.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm not a "parties and democracy" scholar. But this is my guiding assumption about parties and democracy (at least in FPTP systems).

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Long-term, we have to have at least two electorally competitive sensible parties, is what i'm saying.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Kind of like in the US except that there it's not independence but authoritarianism that is the governing ideology of the party.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My worry is that it leads to a single pro-independence right wing populist party (rather that a single right wing populist party that is wishy-washy about independence) and thus to a situation where the only way sanity can prevail is if the other party just always wins.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

... gives us a crack at having a party in government that can speak with a unified voice and pursue a coherent policy on Alberta's place in Canada. That would be ok. (Not saying which party I think that should be). But recent experience makes me expect the worse. Sorry to be a bummer.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is going to be so bad. Unless it isn't. But it probably will be. When they're pulling a Trump and sowing the seeds of conspiracy in anticipation of a loss and plotting other ways of leveraging that conspiracism to seize power... it's not good. Now... maybe this splits the right in AB and...

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Sorry @joelwwood.bsky.social ... i just started replying to myself. I know you know this all as well or better than i do.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

... you've got a basic inequality between governments that is NOT replicated between the Federal Government and the provinces (at least not at anything like that scale). Someone is welcome to prove the contrary to me, of course.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Now municipalities, on the other hand, have lots of right to complain about provincial governments. Where provinces have the power to (and almost always to) curtail muncipalities' ability to raise funds, and also the power to unilaterally download costs onto municipalities without real redress..

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

... their capacity to raise and dispense funds by being too heavy-handed or being inequitable, or insufficiently collaborative, etc. But, on the whole, provinces are not in a great rhetorical position to lead with fiscal grievance.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I guess everyone has the right to demand to have their cake and eat it, too: give us transfers but don't tell us how to use them! But I have the right to suspect that not getting that isn't exactly oppression. Now, the devil's in the details, of course. It IS possible for the Feds to misuse...

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And haven't we seen them flexing that muscle?!

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I guess I knew this at some level already. But, man, it gives some unflattering context for some of our #abpoli referendum questions (and general complaints by premiers in other provinces as well). That's not saying this is good or bad, just that these facts aren't well-represented in our rhetoric.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Teaching Kant's Perpetual Peace this afternoon: "We are speaking here, as in the previous articles, not of philanthropy, but of right; and in this sphere hospitality signifies the claim of a stranger entering foreign territory to be treated by its owner without hostility."

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I know that's moralism, not serious policy analysis. But sometimes you do need to zoom way out and ask the moralistic questions in order to get orientation for the more complex questions.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This government, man. How rich do we have to be before we can give a species a chance to hang on? Seriously, give it to me in royalties collected or GDP per capita or whatever. But I do want to know.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Submitted this manuscript to T&T Clark today. There's some work to do on it yet, but I'm hoping it will join their Bonhoeffer Series relatively soon.

CHRIST AND THE SOCIAL ORDERS:
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER’S THEOLOGY OF DIVINE MANDATES

Jon Coutts

CONTENTS

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: CHRIST AND THE SOCIAL ORDERS

Chapter 1
EARLY BONHOEFFER: CONFRONTING THE ORDERS OF CREATION
Precursors and Parallels: From Household Codes to Estates
After Luther: From Estates to Orders of Creation
After Barth: Backing up for a Christocentric Approach
After Class: Christ and the Order of Work

Chapter 2
BONHOEFFER IN CRISIS: OPTING FOR ORDERS OF PRESERVATION
After Harlem: Race and the Order of Culture
Front Lines of Resistance: Rejecting the Orders of Creation
Genesis and Christology: Reframing the Orders of Preservation
Discipleship Together: Discerning the Orders of Christ

Chapter 3
BONHOEFFER’S ETHICS: LEARNING TO LOVE IN REALITY
After Finkenwalde: Resistance and the Order of Government
Ethics 1: The Created Realm is Estranged, but Not Forsaken
The Form of Christian Cooperation in the Secular
Attuned to the Preservation of Life

Chapter 4
BONHOEFFER’S MANDATES: HEEDING THE CALL TO SERVE
After Ettal: The Shift from Orders to Mandates
Ethics 2: Vocation and the Structures of Responsibility
Mandates: Social Orders in Mutual Service and Healthy Tension
Practicing the Presence of Christ: The Mandate of the Church

Chapter 5
BONHOEFFER IN PRISON: DISCERNING THE WAYS OF CHRIST
After Ethics: The Lingering Problem of Patriarchalism
The Church and the Possibilities for Marriage and Family
Religionless Christianity? The Church among Social Orders
Arcane Discipline: The Cultivation of Social Callings

Bibliography
Index

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I wrote something about the limitations of the language of "hospitality" when it comes to our treatment of non-permanent migrants (e.g. regarding the first 5 questions in the Alberta Referendum). "Hospitality" seems to imply an uncontested prior claim... www.christiancourier.ca/migrant-righ...

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Migrant rights are not about hospitality | Christian Courier

In case you haven’t heard (that’s a joke, of course you’ve heard), Alberta is holding a referendum this month. The most high-profile question Albertans are being asked concerns whether or not the Gove...

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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Migrant rights are not about hospitality | Christian Courier

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’ve got to teach during this time, but maybe you don’t! Question 6 has been much neglected in discussions of the referendum, but it’s important.

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Doing my boring life stuff by bike while on the other side of the city the same infrastructure is being taken away. Today this city moves backwards. but the kids still need to go to the dentist.

My kids in the front of a cargo bike riding down the Danforth cycle track

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Now, I do mean it when i say that my pride in this is perverse. They're a business and taking pride in only buying a little bit of what a business sells is a very odd thing to be proud of. I don't think it reflects well on me.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I think Kevin Lowe once had a term for a fan like me. As grateful as I am for his work at the trade deadline in 2006, i'm not all that sorry to let him down.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There are things that have made me proud to be an #Oilers fan and many things that have made me chagrined (and sometimes ashamed). One thing that I'm perversely proud of is that they have only ever gotten the bare minimum of my money. No merch, no tickets (except as gifts).

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

... on the land and its wealth, which we can give or withhold at will. But settlers on treaty land (and stewards on the Creator's land) don't have such an uncontested prior claim.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"When democracy starts to smell more like autocracy, when the concept of local governance is unmasked as an illusion, then maybe it becomes time to turn out the lights at city hall, lock the doors, and hand over the keys to the premier." Oof. Tough, but fair. Love it here. I hate it here.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm not trying to disparage either of them. They've had careers far more illustrious and successful than I have. I'm just wondering how significant these kinds of campaigns/events are.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Notley is still respected in her own party (I believe). But does she have a significant constituency beyond that? Kenney retains even less of that... unless there's something I don't know: is there a bloc of anti-populist conservatives that still look to him for leadership?

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But in Canada or the UK, very very few people leave office (or even the leadership of their party) "on top". How many of them have been able to shake off the stink of failure, then, and retain a personal constituency?

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Former US presidents -- at least those who served 2 terms -- can sometimes be said to have gone out "on top" in a way former premiers basically can never claim. So someone like, say Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, can still trade on their reputation as winners when they stump for candidates or causes.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Has anyone ever studied the political effectiveness of statements/campaigns by former leaders in parliamentary systems? Since we don't have term limits, all political careers end in failure. In other words, FORMER, politicians are - almost by definition - losers.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Whenever there are people in line to vote, I always feel a bit of a compulsion to run along the line high-fiving everyone.

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Parker High Fives

ALT: Parker High Fives

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Whenever there are people in line to vote, I always feel a bit of a compulsion to run along the line high-fiving everyone.

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Parker High Fives

ALT: Parker High Fives

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At least here, first thing in the morning there was already a pretty significant lineup. In fact, it's shorter now than it was then. Give yourself an hour or so to be on the safe side regardless of when you show up. Glad you're showing up!

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

... she anticipated hours of lineups if she had to vote on the 19th. She was a bit relieved to know it was less than an hour today (and that we had chairs). I told her that people in front of her might even give her cuts in line... but she seemed too nice to ask.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That said, everyone is being super-nice and we've even provided a few chairs since not everyone is in a good position to stand for long. I chatted a bit with an older lady who had recently had hip surgery. She was very motivated to vote, and especially so in the advance poll because...

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