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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“Holy Scripture is not written as a text to be swiftly consumed and digested; you cannot ‘have read’ Holy Scripture, but must always be in the process of reading, rereading, and chewing it over.” @zugzwanged.bsky.social

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Warning: The Bible Is Not Just a Book

What does it mean to learn to read the Bible as a Christian?

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity for late registration for my forthcoming @davenantinstitute.bsky.social course on the Psalms! davenanthall.com/course/psalm...

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indiana jones and the temple of doom movie poster

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Ever wondered about the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ? adversariapodcast.com/2022/01/02/o...

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

2024 was a year filled with joys and sorrows, family and friendship, travel and adventure, and with labour and rest. @suzania.bsky.social and I posted our review of the year earlier on our Substack. argosy.substack.com/p/44-2024-in...

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Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I made a gingerbread panopticon

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

In our latest, @suzania.bsky.social recounts her time at a postliberal conference in Cambridge and her suffering from the flu. I post some reflections upon the importance of the Infant Jesus for our understanding of the Incarnation. Read the whole thing here: argosy.substack.com/p/43-our-god...

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My next @davenantinstitute.bsky.social course is 'The Psalms: A Bible in Miniature'. It is an intense exploration of the Psalter and its place within the life and worship of the Church. Students who take it should come away with a much deeper understanding and greater appreciation of the Psalms.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My next @davenantinstitute.bsky.social course is on the Psalms, their relationship to the wider canon, their theological importance as a form of Scripture, their literary features, their place in Christian worship, prayer, and life, the history of their use, and their witness to Christ.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

For some reason, over the past few years the question of whether David 'raped' Bathsheba has repeatedly surfaced on social media, been the subject of heated disagreement, and then disappeared until the next Bathsheba season. I just produced a video on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4GQ...

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Did David Rape Bathsheba?

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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Um. No one told me the Methodist circuit riders were rocking mullets?!

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"Our manifesto is postliberal in a genuine sense that is neither anti-liberal, nor populist, nor integralist, but rather radically associationist – an order of the world that is founded on a politics of virtue and bonds of belonging, flourishing and love." www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/1...

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What is postliberalism now?

The old order of rampant individualism is dying. The West must make a decisive break with the past.

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Susannah Black Roberts @suzania.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Such a good conversation

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13/12/2024

A lullaby for tonight: I was in my thirties before I realized that the U.S. and U.K. use different tunes for "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Here's the Brit version. Notice the lovely descant (counterpoint) in the last verse. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRuX...

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King's College Cambridge 2013 #9 O Little Town of Bethlehem

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In our latest post, @suzania.bsky.social wrote an obituary for her uncle and I shared some Advent-related thoughts on hermeneutics and also on the meaning of the temple. argosy.substack.com/p/42-an-obit...

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The Ransom Trilogy is a neglected part of C.S. Lewis's work, yet hugely important for the @davenantinstitute.bsky.social. 'Life on the Silent Planet' is a new Davenant book, designed to encourage people to explore it. Rhys Laverty, Jake Meador, and @suzania.bsky.social joined me to discuss it.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The next course I will be teaching for @davenantinstitute.bsky.social is on the book of Psalms: davenanthall.com/course/psalm.... To give a flavour of things we will be reflecting upon in the course, I recorded a version of piece I wrote last year for our Substack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ph...

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Psalm-Singing and Our Encounter with Scripture

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

One of our longest posts to date, even though @suzania.bsky.social was not involved! * My time in Marseille with my brothers * Retrieval and how it can go wrong * A discussion of 'infohazards' * Voting as virtue ethics * Being prepared to 'die' * Many links! argosy.substack.com/p/41-a-marse...

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My reflections on the book of First John have now been translated into French. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_s...

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Commentaire de la première épître de Jean - Alastair Roberts

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Our latest Substack post, with lots of pictures from Marseille, and thoughts on retrieval, infohazards, voting and virtue ethics, and being prepared to 'die'. argosy.substack.com/p/41-a-marse...

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№ 41: A Marseille Visit

Also retrieval, infohazards, voting and virtue ethics, and being prepared to 'die'

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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Eventually Christians are gonna be spotted as the people with more than one kid, kids with disabilities that can be detected in utero, and their sickly and elderly still with them.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! @suzania.bsky.social and I just returned from a wonderful celebration with family.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It's About Time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2aD... A reflection in which I explore the importance of time within theology, especially that of James B. Jordan.

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It's About Time

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This looks like a fascinating course! (Some pictures of mine of places that come to mind in connection with such a course—I wonder if anyone can recognize them all!)

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It's About Time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2aD... A reflection in which I explore the importance of time within theology, especially that of James B. Jordan.

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It's About Time

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Amy Mantravadi @amymantravadi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It’s release day for BROKEN BONDS: A NOVEL OF THE REFORMATION!!!! 🎉🥳 📖 The story of LUTHER, ERASMUS, MELANCHTHON clinging to faith in a chaotic world. 🔥 Want to win a signed copy? 🏆 LIKE AND REPOST to be entered in the drawing. Purchase here: shop.1517.org/products/978...

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Blows my mind that Tacitus’ Annals only survived thanks to a single manuscript. Or rather two. The only copy of the first half was saved in a monastery in Germany and the only copy of the second half was in Monte Cassino. That’s how fine the thread that links us to our history.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm flying out to the US today. I was able to finish knitting a blanket for my father before doing so.

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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

You actually just can’t know your Bible too well. You can read it for decade upon decade, and do specialized studies in every book and you’re always gonna come back with something new.

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Susannah Black Roberts @suzania.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Idk what the protocol for this is on Bluesky but my uncle died very suddenly a week ago and I’m very sad about it. Please pray for my family.

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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Appreciate this on how C. S. Lewis, who died on today’s date 61 years ago, spent his last days—enjoying creation, reading, meeting with friends, and corresponding with people, seeking to do them spiritual good. I want to transition like this. www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...

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The Last Days of C. S. Lewis

A closer look at the beloved apologist and storyteller as his earthly life came to a close.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just recorded a great conversation with @andrewnoble.bsky.social, @gravleyaustin.bsky.social, and Joel Jacob on the What Would Jesus Tech podcast. God's preferred media, tech criticism and wise adoption, tech in worship, the technology of the book, technology and idolatry, and much, much more!

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Arguing online across differences is one of my favourite things. However, you really need to have highly selective and well-moderated communities to do so—comments sections on thoughtful blogs with a diverse audience, email discussion lists, occasional subreddits, etc.

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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I share some of Elizabeth's concerns here. One of my frustrations is with the common dominance of the metaphor of cultural warfare, which maps our struggles onto a straightforward good guys vs. bad guys or friend vs. enemy antagonism.

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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Part of the holiness of God means he is this particular God, the Holy One of Israel, who has acted in particular ways in history like the exodus and the exile. And he’s spoken in particular ways as in the 10 Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. much harder to put words into his mouth.

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