If the Odyssey discourse has you excited about vitriolic disagreement over the interpretation of texts, let me introduce you to Karl Barth scholarship.
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It is theologically crucial that we pay attention to who can speak, who can't speak, and what that says about our commitments. scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/speech-...
reviewing Caleb Klaces' Mr. Outside ( @prototypepubs.bsky.social, 2025) yonks late, but only because stuff Relevant To The Novel kept happening open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...
The young St John the Baptist stands on the left with his mother St Elizabeth in the Holy Kinship by Ninian Comper, 1913 at Lound, Suffolk. With them, the Blessed Virgin and Christchild and St Mary Salome with the young St John the Evangelist. Lound: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lound.htm
Simon Knott@simonknott.bsky.social · 2mo agoSt Elizabeth with the young St John the Baptist, St Anne with the young Blessed Virgin. Two panels from the Holy Kinship sequence on the 15th Century rood screen at Houghton St Giles, Norfolk. Houghton St Giles: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/houghtonstgi...
A poem with both Augustine and Rowan Williams' essay The Body’s Grace in...
A poem with both Augustine and Rowan Williams' essay The Body’s Grace in...
I hope when I die that I go to heaven where I also don't work on my short story collection
Vancouver! Catch me talking about the Nicene Creed at St. Mary’s Kerrisdale on Monday, July 13 and preaching at Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday, July 19! I guess this is the #DingDangGospelLeftCoastTour
sticking it to the man, and by 'the man' I mean Hans Urs von Balthasar
Clergy Facial hair of Gay Gender transgression among
today in Keep Planning, some striking, elemental language poetry from Blue Đào Nguyễn. check it out below!
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#052 – "god. as a Chameleon (god disguised as an erasure poem of my mother tongue)" by Blue Đào Nguyễn (@bluenguyen.bsky.social)
'Christ is incarnate in solidarity with the worst things that can happen to our flesh. This means contemplating the mystery that our pain and shame is an ikon of the crucifixion and resurrection. It means being intimate with horror, with the things which make us cringe away lest they happen to us.'
e.g.n. lafleur@egnlafleur.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is not a new thought that the bodies of the poor and oppressed are the body of Christ, but I invite you to consider: poz blood is the blood of Christ. The blood people fear and revile is that which we hold most sacred, the material of being itself. open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...
It is not a new thought that the bodies of the poor and oppressed are the body of Christ, but I invite you to consider: poz blood is the blood of Christ. The blood people fear and revile is that which we hold most sacred, the material of being itself. open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...
as a seminary professor I can confirm that "being a seminarian" is indeed a unique state of sinfulness
sleeping with a piece of wedding cake under my pillow and receiving harrowing dream-visions of the Passion
On further reflection, there's something very Eve Sedgwick here about some bi women looking at men the way gay men look at men
Peter Mitchell@pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 4mo agoquoting @egnlafleur.bsky.social, whose chat with us features in next week's episode: "Moby-Dick is a book about looking at burly guys"
Y'all mind if I trample out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored?
I'm all libbed out until someone makes me do stereotypical lib things at Mass and then atavistic impulses consume me
Just finished my second lecture for this! Featuring queer natural law, but also Vatican II and what it means to do trans theology in the long shadow of Catholic antiliberalism. There's still time to sign up below! Starts 8th June, online. londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/4kgas...
An Introduction to Trans Theology (08-Jun-2026)
Course overview This course introduces students to the growing field of trans theology. Beginning with the origins of the field as it developed out of feminist theology in the early 2000s, we will se...
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preaching Stephen on Sunday - here he is by Carlo Crivelli, looking very coy
"When I was young, the pope always seemed to be dying... I came to understand something of that emblematic force as I watched the ailing Francis insist on visiting prisoners, gasping out greetings, being present for his Easter message" @piercepenniless.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Butler · Short Cuts: On Pope Francis
Francis’s continual emphasis on mercy – ‘the first attribute of God’ – explains his papal choices more clearly...
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what if I just fully pivot and start posting only history shit. I’m gonna go full conspiracist about Perkin Warbeck specifically.
