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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Now, forty years later, we might be forgiven for asking, What if we do not come to the same conclusion? What if our interpretation differs from that of these 250 predominately white, American men?” “Desiring Certainty: The Making of Biblical Inerrancy” Jason A. Hentschel, pgs. 147, 149-150
If we can summarize the last seventy-five years of the Battle for the Bible, the most compelling through line is not so much what the doctrine of biblical inerrancy is but what it does. Inerrancy provides a psychological certainty that what we believe to be true is really true, and it polices the boundaries of that truth. As such, inerrancy is not so much about truth. Nor is it about knowledge. It is about authority and power, specifically the authority and power to determine who gets to say what the Bible means and who does not.That the ICBI began in 1978 with the intention of defending an inerrant Bible only to confidently end in 1986 with a laundry list of what that inerrant Bible teaches, particularly on topics then under current debate, is telling. What results from the council's tenure is not a fair argument for one interpretation of the Bible over another but anattack on the perceived character and faithlessness of anyone who disagrees with these final findings. This can be seen in the last lines of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Application, where the council anticipates the question of whose interpretation is valid: "The two hundred and fifty of us who have met at the Summit believe that anyone who allows Scripture to deliver its own message on these matters will end up approximately where we stand ourselves." 
Now, forty years later, we might be forgiven for asking, What if we do not come to the same conclusion? What if our interpretation differs from that of these 250 predominately white, American men?
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To the “Christians” who condone every evil and sadistic action taken against immigrants because “they’re illegal,” here is what the Bible says about how foreigners should and should not be treated. You know, the Book you claim to believe in.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Book mail is the best mail @sarahstankorb.bsky.social @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
Open cardboard box with the book “Damned If She Does” by Sarah Stankorb and a prayer candle with a picture of the author and book title.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking
An American Pika carrying a branch across rocky terrain

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.Am American Pika crouched on a rock at a 3/4 view towards the camera

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.An American Pika with a mouth full of dried vegetation sitting on a rock

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.An American Pika perched on a rock and calling

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.
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Chris Lilley 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Time and again, Christianity has been appropriated by empires as a powerful tool for subjugating others... They have pillaged and profaned Jesus... merging the kingdom of God with the kingdoms of this world, and blending Christianity with tyranny" (p. 14). (2/5) #DefyingTyrants
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From page 63 in “Live Laugh Love” re: Frank Buchman founder of the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament. There is nothing new under the sun. #livelaughlovebook #historyrhymes @kkdumez.bsky.social
Seeking power, Buchman was drawn to men with power. In the 1930s, that meant men like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Buchman and his followers had no problem with dictatorship as long as the dictator was brought under the Spirit of God. "Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last bewildering problem," Buchman calculated.
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Robert G. Callahan, II - author / attorney @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes maturity looks like realizing the person you thought was overreacting was actually responding to something you had the privilege of never noticing.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Robert G. Callahan, II - author / attorney @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Before asking whether someone's response to injustice is appropriate, perhaps we should ask what they had to endure to become angry in the first place.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Spielberg is demonstrating he understands airborne infection and how to mitigate it! He’s outside at the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and he’s wearing a KN95! A good respirator protects you and those around you. Covid is not over and a mask is a great way to stay healthy.
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Joey Cochran @jtcochran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An evangelical cultural apologetic cannot be built on the anecdotal fallacy. Your exceptional personal experience does not give you cause to deny and dismiss the experience of others or the overwhelming evidence of history.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why is “Well, that isn’t/wasn’t *my* experience…” a gut response when hearing/reading something uncomfortable? Why shouldn’t someone else’s experience be different? After all, it’s a different person. It’s only a problem if one experience is normative and the rest aren’t.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
(sigh) 😞
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3444 practiced their scales
A small bunny stands on a piano bench by a small piano. She reaches their paws up to the keys, which she can just barely reach. A teacher bunny, wearing glasses, holds a book of sheet music open from the top of the piano
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The Sacred Slope @thesacredslope.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As a cultural historian, I’m also interested in power. Power dynamics.” - Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social, author of Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made - out 9/15! Convo out now youtu.be/mb5j_wGpMbY?... #christianity #deconstruction
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Robert G. Callahan, II - author / attorney @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We should be far less interested in whether Christianity is losing influence and far more interested in why some believed following Jesus required so much influence in the first place.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Book mail is the best mail! #livelaughlovebook @kkdumez.bsky.social @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social
Picture of “Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made” by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Cover is red with a black silhouette of a 50’s style woman’s head in profile wearing a gold cross.Picture of “Defying Tyrants: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists” by Matthew D. Taylor. Cover is a distressed painting of Caesar riding a black horse, wearing a red cape and laurels, holding a small orb of the world in his hand.
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Hannah ☕📚🧶😻😷🌺🪷🪻 @ruhamah07.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please read all 8 posts:
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is going to be good. 👇 And probably make waves. Also good.
Picture of “Desiring Certainty: The Making of Biblical Inerrancy “ by Jason A. Hentschel
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#ShowMeYourKnits - What's on your needles? Pattern: Malabrigo Neck Thingie Yarn: Brediculous worsted in Winter Cottage It’s a quick knit. I cast on yesterday afternoon and hope to finish today. 🧶
Picture of knitted cowl on a wooden kitchen table with the yarn cake in the back. The yarn is variegated in shades of cream, pink, soft red, burgundy, pale green to olive, with splashes of blue and turquoise. The pattern has 3 garter ridges at the edge. Main body is stockinette with a slipped stitch every 4 stitches that makes vertical rows of longer knit stitch.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Covid is a mass disabling event. Just because you had it and were “fine” doesn’t mean there isn’t silent damage in your body. Multiple infections increase the risk of long covid … you never know which one could leave you disabled. This is why we mask. Why we clean the air.
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Cascade Yarns® @cascadeyarns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🦝Jimothy the Legendary Raccoon is out in the wild today with 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧 at 𝐒𝐞𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐘𝐚𝐫𝐧 in Coupeville, WA! Stop by this cozy LYS to explore an amazing selection of Cascade Yarns. ✨ 🧶𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧: buff.ly/UdsOfQF #cascadeyarns #pnw #yarn
A crocheted raccoon sits on a colorful display of yarns. Jimothy the Legendary Raccoon, designed by Angela Nichelle Bradley, is a free Cascade Yarns pattern.A crocheted raccoon sits on a colorful display of yarns. Jimothy the Legendary Raccoon, designed by Angela Nichelle Bradley, is a free Cascade Yarns pattern.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There is a pandemic happening in the school districts but it’s not that they’re secretly transitioning your kids. It’s Covid. It’s not gone. It’s not mild. Kids aren’t immune. Long Covid recently surpassed asthma to become the most common childhood illness. Clean air in schools now.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I took a box of books to a local used bookstore. I was browsing and saw this on the shelf. I was tempted to buy it to be in good company with Emma M. Lion and Islington, Duke of. 🙂
Picture of the spine of 
NORTH'S PLUTARCH:
The Translation By Sir Thomas North of
Plutarch’s Lives, Volume Two
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I really feel like it should be bigger news that fibreglass is in IV saline bags in the US. This isn’t a situation where you might get a little sick. Fibreglass going directly into your veins will kill you. IV saline is used for almost every medical procedure. This is unconscionable:
fda.gov
Baxter Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall for Two Lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection Due to Potential Presence of Particulate Matter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUG. 25, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling two lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection due to the potential presence of parti...
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The most innocent thing you'll see today. Original post
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Sarah M @lore.house · 25/08/2026
Be the kind of person that when you die, people crash the servers trying to donate to your library project to give kids books.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rest in peace, Dolly.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#bloomscrolling
Picture looking down on B a vase of flowers with 2 large bright pink gerbera daisy, yellow mums, pink mums, purple statice, and green pincushion mums.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
See, you don't need to rush... #BookSky
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
DOS 2.0 or a bootlegged copy of WordStar
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Darth Vader spoke in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting yesterday
gizmodo.com
'The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock': Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting
"This council was elected to serve the police, not the public," said Vader.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yesterday’s page-a-day calendar. 📚
"Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread."
-Henry Stevens
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.
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Carlye Hooten @chooten.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is absolutely precious 💖 a must-watch if there ever was one 😍
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A man was walking alongside his cat when, suddenly, they came across a musician and the cat decided to show off all his talent. Original post
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My old copy of The Phantom Tollbooth courtesy of a grade school Scholastic Book fair.
Picture of a paperback copy of The Phantom Tollbooth. The blue cover is faded and worn from much reading.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This story is a bit wild. After Elon Musk's DOGE erased decades of USAID data, it was assumed to be lost. But a Canadian college student had previously downloaded much of it in high school for a project. 4,000 PDFs. Thanks again, Canada. Yet again. www.aiddata.org/blog/before-...
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"In other words, they want to continue our indefinite detention without any end in sight. But for what purpose? I have been asking myself that question over and over."
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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"In the Doldrums, laughter is frowned upon and smiling is permitted only on alternate Thursdays. Violators shall be dealt with most harshly." "Well, if you can't laugh or think, what can you do?" asked Milo. "Anything as long as it's nothing, and everything as long as it isn't anything"
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🧶 Pattern: Make It Magic shawl by Alina Appasova found on Ravelry Yarn: Prickly Pear and a bright sapphire blue fingering from Bad Sheep Yarn Needles: size 4 The pattern is less complicated than it looks and is a fun knit. #showmeyourknits #wip
Picture of knitted shawl still on the needles. Pattern is alternating bands of sapphire blue and a variegated skein of mainly yellow, chartreuse, orange, pink, lighter blue, and dark blue in garter stitch, eyelets, and slip stitches.
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today’s calendar: "Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book." -E. B. White
"Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
-E. B. White
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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“We settled for objectivity when what we long for is communion. But "being right" is a sorry substitute for being loved. And becoming the sort of people who crave recognition for being right has made monsters of us all.” Make Your Home In This Luminous Dark, James K.A. Smith , pg. 46.
If the mystics press beyond knowledge, it is to address a deeper fear: something like the fear of abandonment—a cosmic, existential loneliness, an inchoate, unspoken fear of not being seen, not being loved. Hegel described this as humanity's fundamental need for recognition. If something like this is true, then all of our philosophical projects for securing some "indubitable" foundation or assuring ourselves that we've "got it right" mask what is, at root, a social desire. What look like epistemological debates are sublimated quests to satisfy a social longing. Modernity taught us to crave knowledge as a substitute for being embedded in communities where being known is the practical foundation for going on. We settled for objectivity when what we long for is communion. But "being right" is a sorry substitute for being loved. And becoming the sort of people who crave recognition for being right has made monsters of us all.
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Diane Langberg, PhD @dianelangberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“The single most significant factor in determining whether a religion will be implicated in violence is its identification with a political project and its entanglement with those trying to realize and protect that project.” —Miroslav Volf
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