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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 23h

Today’s email quarantine summary brought the most hilarious spam/fake/phishing marketing pitch I’ve received yet as a book author/editor. 🤣🤣🤣

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every single aspect of this is bad. (Washington Post gift link in replies)

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kheresa Harmon and I were delighted to receive our order of Paul Stuart Fiddes’s theological memoir in today’s Amazon delivery.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In my new book, I wrote about the implicitly liturgical context of U2's music. A feature story in the Rolling Stone about U2's forthcoming new album highlights how this aspect of their music is becoming more explicit. (Links to Rolling Stone article and ordering information for the book in replies.)

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Teacher on the Radio” Andrew William Smith and I last hour had this fun chat about new U2 music and my new book on the theological imagination that created it—and about the theological imagination it encourages when we listen to it.

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There Is New U2 & Steve Harmon Visits Teacher On The Radio

YouTube video by Andrew Smith

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sign on the door of the small Baptist church in the rural Western NC town of Spindale where I served as guest preacher this morning. Thank you, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship!

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Concluding this day of celebrating U2’s 50th anniversary by playing one of the earliest U2 songs, which they played twice today in Dublin. “I Will Follow!!!!”

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U2’s 50th anniversary cover of “I Will Follow”

YouTube video by stevenrharmon

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this 50th anniversary of U2's existence, I'm finding it difficult to express concisely the reasons I've found their music so deeply meaningful since I discovered them in 1983. I had to write a book to do that! It's my own contribution to the celebration that will continue through the year ahead.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh my, oh, my, oh my! I'll have other words later. But I told you this was going to be theologically-laden. It was more so than I anticipated.

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U2 - Silencio

YouTube video by U2VEVO

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

U2’s new single “Silencio” from the forthcoming new album (credibly rumored to be titled Carnaval de Luz) drops on streaming platforms at noon Eastern time today, but in accordance with established tradition, Dave Fanning will have rights of first play a few minutes before then on RTÉ FM2.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was just now listening to this U2 song while exercising. We’re at that moment. Choose wisely, choose lovingly.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Things we notice in a FB group to which I belong: “What guitar is The Edge playing this time?”

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Episode 2 of Hearing Hope: A Conversation on U2's Theological Imagination has dropped--"The Sound of Yearning: How U2’s Music Reaches for the Divine" (links to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube platforms in comments).

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m neither a lawyer nor a professor of constitutional law, but I’m thinking this is a violation of First Amendment protections of a free press.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

More U2 covers coming, but in the meantime, here’s some Brandi Carlile (or rather, me covering Tim Hanseroth’s part). [*Ignore a couple of flubbed notes in one of the E7 arpeggios. 😉 Who knows—maybe I’ll record it again. 🤷‍♂️] youtu.be/YQcg5rppncM?...

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“The Story” (Brandi Carlile guitar cover)

YouTube video by stevenrharmon

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The (satirical) posts from the “blood-soaked killing fields of North Carolina” are delightful.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Baptist Standard kicks off the countdown to next Friday's 50th anniversary of U2's formation as a band with a review of my book U2's Theological Imagination.

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Review: U2’s Theological Imagination

Editor Eric Black reviews “U2’s Theological Imagination: A Guide for Pilgrims” on the Way by Steven R. Harmon.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am not a native North Carolinian, but having lived here for 26 years of my life thus far, I think North Carolina is one of the very best states in the United States of America. There’s nowhere else in this country I’d rather live. Seems like a good time to say so.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m glad that my Cooperative Baptist Fellowship ecclesial communion has launched this initiative and grateful for the voice of fellow Howard Payne University alum Brooke Holloway Blake encouraging it. Let’s love our neighbors in this manner. cbf.net/why-now-lovi...

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Why now: Loving our neighbors to the voting booth - CBF

Dear Pastor, “We’ve never done this before.” How often have we pastors heard this reasoning as we try to lead churches into new waters? When you heard about CBF Advocacy’s 2026 focus on increasing vot...

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

😡 This is a grievous sin against God the Creator and against the people created in God’s image who will be harmed by it.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy 71st birthday to Pope Leo XIV! I continue to be grateful for the experience of being in Rome to cover the conclave that elected him to succeed Pope Francis, as well as grateful for course of his pontificate thus far that was already manifesting itself during those early days in May 2025.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I do not know the person who posted this on Threads, but it seems worth noting right now.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies that had its USA release last month is now available for 30% discounted from the list price. Use promotion code AUFLY30.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Welcome to Rev. Dr. Laura Heikes as the 8th senior pastor of St John's Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC! We are also delighted to welcome her husband Kevin Heikes and their son Asher to our fellowship. Thanks be to God!

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Campbell University Divinity School reunion at my book talk/signing for U2’s Theological Imagination in Winston-Salem this evening. So good to be with Ashley Hendrix Catlett, Thomas Bounds, Miles Catlett, and Mike Nuckolls again!

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s not every day that one meets the Bishop of Iceland in a hotel lobby in Statesville, NC. My new friend is the Right Reverend Guðrún Karls Helgudóttir, and she’s here to speak at the Wild Goose Festival.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A high point of Brandi Carlile's show in Charlotte last night was her encore set cover of Alanis Morissette's "Uninvited" leading into Brandi's song "A Long Goodbye," which has a lyrical reference to Jagged Little Pill. Here's the "Uninvited" cover at the Newport Folk Festival a few weeks ago.

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Brandi Carlile - Uninvited (Newport Folk Fest 2026)

YouTube video by Brandi Carlile

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We have a podcast series! "Hearing Hope: A Conversation on U2's Theological Imagination with Dr. Steve Harmon" dropped its first episode yesterday. The series for the Gardner-Webb University podcast network is a companion to my new book U2's Theological Imagination: A Guide for Pilgrims on the Way.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Who else will be there with me tonight?

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When I read this evening the sad news of the death of novelist, poet, essayist, activist, and advocate Wendell Berry, my mind began hearing Carrie Newcomer's song "Lean in Toward the Light," the lyrics of which include the Berry-inspired admonition "Keep practicing resurrection."

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Lean In Toward The Light - By Carrie Newcomer

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm looking forward to serving as guest preacher at the First Baptist Church of Marion this Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost: “Love Extravagantly” (Jeremiah 15:15-21; Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 16:21-28).

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

New music Friday, part 1: new music from U2--a cover of "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" by The Pogues, contributed to the album 20th Century Paddy--The Songs of Shane MacGowan.

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U2 - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Shane MacGowan

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Update on my availability for guest preaching on my Sunday preaching calendar for the first half of the fall: September 6, 13, and 20, along with October 4, are still open. If you're in need of a guest preacher any of those Sundays, send me a message.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The word of the day is “hydronym.” 😉

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Come join Grace Ji-Sun Kim and me for a book talk and signing event on Thursday, September 3 at 7:00 PM at Ardmore Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC on the eve of the Wild Goose Festival nearby where Rev. Dr. Kim will be a featured speaker.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I have a series of upcoming dates currently uncommitted on my Sunday preaching calendar: September 6, 13, 20, and 27 and October 4. If you're in need of a guest preacher any of those Sundays, send me a message.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm looking forward to serving again as guest preacher at First Baptist Church of Elon, NC for this Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost: “A Communion That Embraces Differences" (Isaiah 51:1-6; Ephesians 4:7-16).

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The interim pastor of the Baptist church in this story is Cody J. Sanders, who is Associate Professor of Congregational & Community Care Leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN and an alumnus of Gardner-Webb University. (1/2)

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Undercover ICE agent spies on Baptist church – Baptist News Global

Leaders and members of a Minnesota Baptist church were stunned to learn an undercover immigration agent entered their facilities to spy

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am married to a skilled writer and pray-er of pastoral prayers (prayed at St. John's Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC by Rev. Kheresa Harmon on August 16, 2026).

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm looking forward to serving again as guest preacher at First Baptist Church of Elon, NC, for this Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost: "Walking in Oneness" (Isaiah 56:1, 6-8; Ephesians 4:1-6).

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Last night’s sound check recording of my early attempt at the guitar intro for the first song on U2’s surprise Easter Lily EP (audio link): player.audigolabs.com/audio/437c03...

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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy USA book release day for the Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies! It has been an honor and a joy to serve as its co-editor along with Paul Stuart Fiddes, David Bebbington, and Elizabeth Flowers, and to contribute a chapter and a co-authored chapter to it. Ordering information in comments.

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