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Phil Dorroll

@phildorroll.bsky.social
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Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
St. Nicholas was the only house of worship destroyed on September 11. Its rebuilding reflects the spirit that carried New Yorkers through the days, months and years in the wake of the attack: a belief in each other, the hope of recovery, and a determination to begin again.
Archbishop Elpidophoros leads at St. Nicholas National Shrine.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
This afternoon, I joined Archbishop Elpidophoros and faith leaders at St. Nicholas National Shrine to mark the 25 years since the horrific terror attacks of 9/11 and reflect on the resilience of our city.
Mayor Mamdani, Archbishop Elpidophoros, and others bow their heads at St. Nicholas National Shrine.
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
See: www.pewresearch.org/politics/200...
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Post September 11 Attitudes
Introduction and Summary The Sept. 11 attacks have increased the prominence of religion in the United States to an extraordinary degree, but not at the expense of acceptance of religious…
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And it was actually reflected in polling- there was a broad *increase* in support for Muslim Americans after 9/11, because of signaling from leadership. But that was indeed short-lived, as what began as outbursts of Islamophobia became policy and political ideology over the next decade.
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Monica Mitri @monicamitri.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Really enjoyed @phildorroll.bsky.social's piece on patriarchy, virtue, & Orthodoxy today in Public Orthodoxy. publicorthodoxy.org/2026/09/02/h...
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History or Virtue? A Response to Drs. David and Mary Ford
Earlier this year, Drs. David Ford and Mary Ford offered a response to my previous article on Christian masculinity and its patriarchal distortions. While I appreciate their sincere and thoughtful engagement with my position, I also contend that their arguments in support of male headship are based on a confusion between historical precedent and genuine...
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Many thanks for reading!
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Recently discovered a new favorite icon (The Virgin Hodegetria, 15th century; Lviv, Ukraine; in Miliayeva, “The Ukrainian Icon”)
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
May her memory be eternal.
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A must-read assessment of the state of modern Eastern Orthodox Christian theology via @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social “Orthodoxy might not die out, but it still might die inside."
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On Living and Merely Surviving
A common misunderstanding of classical evolutionary theory is that the “fittest” organisms that natural selection favors are merely those who have mastered their environmental milieux. Even in Darwini...
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Yes, that’s a great way to put it
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Not an expert here lol but maybe when in Acts 14 (the council at Jerusalem) early Christians decided to stop practicing Mosaic law
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Available for preorder this Fall @routledgebooks.bsky.social @riccardiswartz.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Orthodox-Chr...
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I've just finished indexing what is one of this year's most eagerly anticipated books among historians and sociologists of religion (as well as Vatican-watchers) - 'Trads' by Stephen Cranney and Stephen Bullivant global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Read theory
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hungary has signalled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to join the bloc in the coming days, four diplomats told POLITICO.
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Ukraine and Moldova on course to start formal EU membership talks in June
Hungarian officials have signaled they intend to drop their opposition to Ukraine’s EU membership bid, diplomats told POLITICO.
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For the first day of Pride Month, a very short and very moving tribute to Imam Muhsin Hendricks, a courageous and humble advocate for all those oppressed and outcast, and the author of the first LGBTQ+ affirming Islamic theological arguments:
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A Tribute to Muhsin Hendricks: A Life of Courage, Compassion, and Friendship
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ‎ Translation: Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Allah we…
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
And yes, I’ve consumed gallons of both, in Turkey
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Real hot take here, but it stand by it: Turkish tea is absolutely superior; Turkish coffee is fine
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I think it’s helpful to realize that worldviews- political, ideological, religious, etc- are primarily used by people to imbue events in the world with meaning, rather than explain why they happen. People can easily tolerate a lack of understanding, but no one can tolerate a lack of meaning.
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you see this post a tree
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Slight counter point: it’s entering the common lexicon fast, and anecdotally here in SC people on both sides know exactly what it means, regardless of their education level. It’s definitely discussed by “regular people,” and it does key into existing convos among evangelicals.
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Post a meme made by you
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This is great; I feel like the process thought I’ve read is a highly compelling analysis of our concepts about God, but not about the divine nature itself
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Pope Leo: Literature must be a 'school of fraternity and peace' - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV sends a message to the Turin International Book Fair, taking place this week in the northern Italian city, reiterating that literature ...
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Read theory
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways religion is understood, experienced, and contested in conte
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Very excited to get this in the mail yesterday
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
4th Eye Blind
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.”
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
St. Jacob of Serugh (Suruç in modern Turkey; 451-521) on the love of God
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Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Reflections on a major figure of Islamic history whose traces I've been encountering for most of my scholarly career but who always seems to evade any firm academic grasp- a good thing really in my estimation:
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Searching for 'Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
The Muslim Saint Who is Everywhere and Nowhere
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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles
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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Spring in Vienna. -- My favourite tulip in the Liechtensteinpark. #photography #Vienna #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Garden or Gun
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
See book below on that period; iow what’s happening in TX it is indeed as bad as it looks- but sadly is actually a replay of a previous movement (and tbh I don’t think it will get nearly as far this time).
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What’s happening in Texas is indeed very concerning. It is tho reminiscent (and likely derived from) the organized Islamophobic activism that followed the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy in 2010 and the included proposed bills in TN that would have banned Muslim ritual practice entirely.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Despite pressure, Gov. Henry McMaster won’t call special session to redraw SC’s congressional map www.postandcourier.com/politics/mcm...
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Despite pressure, Gov. Henry McMaster won’t call special session to redraw SC’s congressional map
SC Gov. Henry McMaster won’t call a special session to redraw the state’s congressional districts, even as national Republicans push for mid-decade redistricting following a Supreme Court ruling.
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Really interesting thread on South Carolina politics from a genuine expert:
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The original Star Wars has to be the “best” if only bc its main themes are the precondition for the success of any following work However, just in terms is sheer quality, absolutely nothing is in even the same universe as Andor- except Rogue One
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Pope Leo reading the book 'Free Under Grace', which brings together speeches, homilies, letters, and messages from his early ministry as Robert Prevost. Currently available in Italian, the book will be released in several languages in the coming months.
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
<falls backward out of chair> are they being serious
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Lol that explains my suddenly missing antiquity
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This article is so British it jumped through my phone and drew lines around my living room so that it could be divided into several new nation states
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
Cairo Smith:
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.
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Anca B. @b-anca.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Maybe if Moldova joins the EU, it will also set an example of good practices in press freedom for its neighboring EU member states. 🫣 2026 RSF Index: press freedom at a 25-year low rsf.org/en/index
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RNS @rns.org · 29/04/2026
(RNS) — Thousands of people are missing in South Sudan. Church leaders are shining a light on this scourge on the second anniversary of a Catholic priest’s disappearance.
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A priest vanished two years ago. South Sudan's churches say he's not alone.
(RNS) — Thousands of people are missing in South Sudan. Church leaders are shining a light on this scourge on the second anniversary of a Catholic priest’s disappearance.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 29/04/2026
A very good exchange with Péter Magyar in Brussels today. We discussed the steps necessary to unlock EU funds earmarked for Hungary, that are frozen due to corruption and rule of law concerns.
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