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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

St Paul, to Timothy (and also to ask Christians living in today's idiot media ecosystem): "Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels." [2 Tim 2:23]

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christs-college.bsky.social @christs-college.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What are we to make of war in an age of drones, money in the time of cryptocurrency, and work when AI seems to threaten almost every job? Does the long tradition of Christian Ethics have anything to say about these questions? Come along to these sessions and find out!

Flyer for sessions Aberdeen Academy of Theology Sessions on War, Wealth, and Work on 26th September, 24 October, and 21 November at Fountainhall Church Centre in Aberdeen. Those interested should email joel.pierce@abdn.ac.uk.

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christs-college.bsky.social @christs-college.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This Friday Aberdeen's Dr Katherine Hockey will deliver the Christ's College Divinity Opening Lecture at 3pm in KCF7.

Flyer for University of Aberdeen Divinity's opening lecture which will happen on Friday, September 18th at 3pm in KCF7

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Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Several familiar Divinity faces in this new documentary: "Mutual Belonging — on Faith, Disability and Belonging," which you can watch at the link just below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lxa...

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Mutual Belonging – Documentary on Faith, Disability, and Belonging

YouTube video by Mutual Belonging Film

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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

No, no, we need to demythologize the world and find it anew in the strange real world of the Bible.

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I can still remember waking up the morning of September 7th 2020 to the wildfires in LA County, colouring the sun a deep and painful red. It's definitely not as bad as that here in Aberdeenshire, but seeing the light with a sickly orange hue to it was not what I was expecting when I woke up today 💔

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There’s no one finer for the role at ND. Go with God’s blessing, Mr. Hargaden…

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Some personal news: After a wonderful decade at @jcfjustice.bsky.social, I’m moving to teach Moral Theology at the Institute for Social Concerns at @notredame.bsky.social To mark the transition & the 100th issue of Working Notes, I’m giving a final lecture on July 29th: www.jcfj.ie/event/workin...

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Working Notes at 100: Faith that Still Does Justice - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland

Milestones are best shared in community. This month, the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice reaches a remarkable one, publishing the 100th issue of our journal, Working Notes. For decades, this publi...

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Brian, Tommy, and Emily are some of my favourite people, and this is sure to be a rich conversation open.spotify.com/episode/5Qpl...

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Ep. 18 - Blood Meridian with Brian Brock

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This. Make sure you tune into for this. Brian showed me his extensive research just for this podcast. If it’s anything to go by, it’ll be a blast hearing him go at it with Emily and Tommy @holywrit.bsky.social @abdndivinity.bsky.social

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Anyone who wants to keep tabs on my PhD journey, ping me a DM (or the Bluesky equivalent) with your email and I’ll add you to the newsletter…

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Listen, normally I’m a big fan of Mark. I’ve found him to be kind and thoughtful. But…this is just a little bit on the weird side: youtu.be/PIc-KG5kX3s?...

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What AI Thinks About Humans (and Itself), with Claude AI

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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

You know the Pope is good when the Empire doesn’t like what he has to say.

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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Exodus 1 tells the story of a foreign people growing in power and the ruling nation oppressing them out of fear of the other. Let the reader understand.

Now a new king arose over Egypt, who
did not know Joseph. ' He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."
"Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13 The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, 4 and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

When I first left atheism behind, the biblical refrain to "fear God" was unsettling since why would we fear one who is love? In this age of Lidl-brand Caesars who think they can wage war with impunity, it has come to be among the easiest injunctions to understand in all of the Scriptures.

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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Read this:

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Pretty sure that this kind of interpretation would fail literally any basic Intro to the Bible class. Lord, have mercy...

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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Large language models? More like large loser models.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

or as Eagleton's comrade at Slant (McCabe) put it: “If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.”

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Huge news...may the good work continue...

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Just when I had come down from my rage earlier this week fighting ChatGPT, I have this appear on my feed...and my hate for this evil monstrosity is rekindled once more...

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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Asking residents for entry permission would ‘kill’ the home invasion industry

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“The role of the Christian in society is to shatter the false necessities and fatalities of violence.” — Jacques Ellul

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I love @philipchristman.bsky.social's writing and the clarity of this piece is blinding: 'one of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate us.' www.christiancentury.org/voices/revil...

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Reviled for Jesus’ sake

One of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate...

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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It’s perfect.

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Very proud of friend, old neighbour, and former classmate, Kat Armas, who penned the article His Holiness Leo XIV reposted some time ago...

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We are fighting for funding for the ME/CFS Research Roadmap. We have a letter urging Dr. Bhattacharya to allocate $50 million to fund the ME/CFS Research Roadmap. Sign our new letter now: bit.ly/MEcfsRoadmap The more signatures we gather, the louder our call for action. #PwME #MECFS #NIH

NIH building in the background in black and white with a yellowed/faded overlay. Text: SOS Fund the ME/CFS Roadmap.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I had heard that you can just make up a phrase, put it in inverted commas and add "meaning" to the query and Google "AI" will fantasize a definition and an entire cultural context. Vonnegut could not dream up shit and self-defeating as this.

Google's imagined response to a bland idiom I made up - "the wren gets the last word" - which involves a definition, a cultural context, and a note about the symbolic representation of a phrase that does not exist in Hiberno-English.

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Pope Francis wasn’t a “liberal.” His papacy can’t be understood with the liberal/conservative frame. He was pastoral in the model of a Jesuit spiritual director. The point of Christianity is a personal encounter with God in Jesus.

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Rest in Peace, and Rise in Glory, dear Francis

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Pope Francis's Way of the Cross: "Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell. God’s economy, on the other hand, does not kill, discard or crush. It is lowly, faithful to the earth."

You blessed the Father, who conceals his plans from the wise and the learned in order to reveal them to the little ones. Even the way of the cross is traced close to the earth. The mighty withdraw from it; they desire to grasp at heaven. Yet heaven is here below; it hangs low, and we can encounter it even when we fall flat on the ground. Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell. God’s economy, on the other hand, does not kill, discard or crush. It is lowly, faithful to the earth. Your way, Jesus, is the way of the Beatitudes. It does not crush, but cultivates, repairs and protects.

Let us pray, saying: May your kingdom come!

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Joel Pierce @joelpierce.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

spintongues.vladivostok.com/auden9eng.htm

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HORAE CANONICAE

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This statement from the WH giving off real Matt. 7:21-23 vibes...Lord have mercy...

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

god hasn’t forgotten about you

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Aberdeen Gifford Lectures @abdngiffords.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Please help us spread the word about our upcoming Gifford Lectures series! Free to attend and open to all. Sign up here: www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/events/...

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

At a time when the news of doom is reported from distant corners of the world, @jcfjustice.bsky.social argue that you should pay particular, loving attention to the patch of the earth you call home: www.jcfj.ie/2025/04/04/l...

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Loving the place we are in - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland

In the face of chaos, destruction and conflict, loving our community is one thing we can do to maintain belonging, purpose, and hope.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The churches in America must resist the role being thrust upon us; we cannot be chaplain to authoritarianism.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Book update: the manuscript is in. Excited to share more soon. There is a way back from disreality and the conspiracism that sets our world on fire.

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Phil King @philking.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

'Tis official - this September I'll begin study at @abdndivinity.bsky.social for a PhD in Systematics and Theological Ethics...

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mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com · 07/03/2025

"fight like hell"??? hell sucks at fighting. got their ass whipped by a man hung on a cross. hell is 0-[all of existence]. no ties, all losses.

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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Your golden president demands praise and allegiance from those he views as lesser than. Go back and read your Old Testament and let me know how that will work out in the end.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The power play spectacle in the Oval Office today has me driving stakes down in Psalm 82, especially this part: “God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked?” Psalms‬ ‭82‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Just read a major international news organization describe Bannon's NAZI salute as a gesture evoking fascist ideology and I want to respectfully suggest that we all start listening to Jesus again. "Love your neighbor" and "let your yes be yes" would have defeated all this before it began

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Unlearning is learning. If all of the Christian life is conversion, then we never "arrive" at some controlled and static “biblical worldview” that enables us to see reality in totality - that's what ideology offers. No, the church is always and ever on the way until the Day we aren't.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The Church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Beth Felker Jones @bethfelkerjones.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We reject the false teaching that the church could change its identity and message to assuage prevailing ideological and political claims. Barmen for the U.S.

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