Marc Roscoe Loustau
@attheedges.bsky.social
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"In a world on fire, hopeful storytelling about global politics, culture, and the edges of faith."
"In a world on fire, hopeful storytelling about global politics, culture, and the edges of faith."
This @nytimes article is why Viktor Orbán took over #Hungary's universities. To be a long-term authoritarian, you need a pipeline to produce generations of loyal cadres. Academia must resist #Trump!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors
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February 8, 2026 at 9:22 PM
This @nytimes article is why Viktor Orbán took over #Hungary's universities. To be a long-term authoritarian, you need a pipeline to produce generations of loyal cadres. Academia must resist #Trump!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
A dash of rebellion: That’s the secret seasoning at Krym Restauracja, a traditional Crimean Tatar eatery in #Warsaw. Read the review, including an interview with Krym’s owner, on “At the Edges, with Marc Loustau.”
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February 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
A dash of rebellion: That’s the secret seasoning at Krym Restauracja, a traditional Crimean Tatar eatery in #Warsaw. Read the review, including an interview with Krym’s owner, on “At the Edges, with Marc Loustau.”
Link in the comments.
Link in the comments.
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Tuesday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. I interviewed John Swanson about one of the most well-known records of the Holocaust: the Auschwitz Album. But did you know that it was once called Lili’s Album? On “At the Edges, with Marc Loustau” on Substack.
Tuesday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. I interviewed John Swanson about one of the most well-known records of the Holocaust: the Auschwitz Album. But did you know that it was once called Lili’s Album? On “At the Edges, with Marc Loustau” on Substack.
January 29, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Tuesday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. I interviewed John Swanson about one of the most well-known records of the Holocaust: the Auschwitz Album. But did you know that it was once called Lili’s Album? On “At the Edges, with Marc Loustau” on Substack.
Tuesday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. I interviewed John Swanson about one of the most well-known records of the Holocaust: the Auschwitz Album. But did you know that it was once called Lili’s Album? On “At the Edges, with Marc Loustau” on Substack.
Yes, I have been fearful reading the news from Minneapolis. But not only that: I have also stood in blessed awe of the many Minneapolis-based friends in faith and their truthful witness.
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“America's liberal cities are occupied territory."
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“America's liberal cities are occupied territory."
January 27, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Yes, I have been fearful reading the news from Minneapolis. But not only that: I have also stood in blessed awe of the many Minneapolis-based friends in faith and their truthful witness.
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“America's liberal cities are occupied territory."
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“America's liberal cities are occupied territory."
Delightful vintages, hidden back rooms in a palatial art gallery, an innovative art teacher serves up a small-town lager. Today from "At the Edges," a culture and food tour of Vojvodina in northern #SerbiaTravel.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Delightful vintages, hidden back rooms in a palatial art gallery, an innovative art teacher serves up a small-town lager. Today from "At the Edges," a culture and food tour of Vojvodina in northern #SerbiaTravel.
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This summer I went to a Ukrainian village on the front line. I went partly to record wartime rural life. Today the village is off limits and locals have evacuated. Read about my reflections in today’s Substack essay: “Donetsk through my eyes, Part 2.”
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Donetsk through my eyes (Part 2)
How do you remember a place with no people?
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January 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
This summer I went to a Ukrainian village on the front line. I went partly to record wartime rural life. Today the village is off limits and locals have evacuated. Read about my reflections in today’s Substack essay: “Donetsk through my eyes, Part 2.”
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Russians are forcing Ukrainian priests and pastors to flee occupied territory. But the ministers still contact the parishioners they left behind. I spoke with @christiancentury.bsky.social about my article, "Pastors in exile." www.christiancentury.org/features/pas...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Russians are forcing Ukrainian priests and pastors to flee occupied territory. But the ministers still contact the parishioners they left behind. I spoke with @christiancentury.bsky.social about my article, "Pastors in exile." www.christiancentury.org/features/pas...
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Donetsk Province in eastern Ukraine is now famous for being a bone of contention in peace negotiations with Russia. Today we're publishing Part 1 of a photo essay, “Donetsk through my eyes,” to bring this geopolitical hotspot a little closer to home.
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January 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Donetsk Province in eastern Ukraine is now famous for being a bone of contention in peace negotiations with Russia. Today we're publishing Part 1 of a photo essay, “Donetsk through my eyes,” to bring this geopolitical hotspot a little closer to home.
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Putin plays Western media as much as Trump. Media reports fake negotiations rather than real suffering Putin causes in Ukraine. More war isn't news but peace is. So Putin pretends to negotiate and the media falls for it. Photos: Ukrainian school where Russian missiles killed children in 2022.
December 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Putin plays Western media as much as Trump. Media reports fake negotiations rather than real suffering Putin causes in Ukraine. More war isn't news but peace is. So Putin pretends to negotiate and the media falls for it. Photos: Ukrainian school where Russian missiles killed children in 2022.
A year's end message from "At the Edges" on Substack: "We provide this service because the world needs critical, hopeful storytelling." marcroscoeloustau.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
December 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A year's end message from "At the Edges" on Substack: "We provide this service because the world needs critical, hopeful storytelling." marcroscoeloustau.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
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Mark Carney announces Canada will provide $2.5 billion in economic aid to Ukraine - aimed on rebuilding Ukraine. Another major economic commitment.
December 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Mark Carney announces Canada will provide $2.5 billion in economic aid to Ukraine - aimed on rebuilding Ukraine. Another major economic commitment.
The latest from “At the Edges, with Marc Loustau:” A conversation about climate denialism and the far right, featuring Prof. Lee Medovoi, Senior Fellow at the Central European University’s Institute for Advanced Studies.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The latest from “At the Edges, with Marc Loustau:” A conversation about climate denialism and the far right, featuring Prof. Lee Medovoi, Senior Fellow at the Central European University’s Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Am I alone in discovering that spiked, thanks to the #60minutes scandal, is jargon for both journalists and football players?
December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Am I alone in discovering that spiked, thanks to the #60minutes scandal, is jargon for both journalists and football players?
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“The idea of collective blessing in scripture is a direct critique of the way power is being wielded to punish in our country. Collective punishment in politics has become normalized, but it does not have to be so.”
– @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social
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– @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social
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Collective punishment
The scriptural concept of collective blessing challenges the pervasive logic that seems to be holding this country hostage....
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December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“The idea of collective blessing in scripture is a direct critique of the way power is being wielded to punish in our country. Collective punishment in politics has become normalized, but it does not have to be so.”
– @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/online-colum...
– @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/online-colum...
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“Our Christian hope is that God will one day step in decisively to disrupt all our timelines. No calendar can prepare us for that day.”
– Brandon Ambrosino
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– Brandon Ambrosino
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My Christmas tree defies the liturgical calendar
The calendar prepares us for a future we cannot be prepared for.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Our Christian hope is that God will one day step in decisively to disrupt all our timelines. No calendar can prepare us for that day.”
– Brandon Ambrosino
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– Brandon Ambrosino
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Update on Hungary child abuse scandal: Independent Hungarian public opinion research group reports that pro-government voters disagree with government PR campaign slandering the victims as criminals. telex.hu/belfold/2025...
My own coverage on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/marcrosc...
My own coverage on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/marcrosc...
21 Kutatóközpont a Szőlő utcai ügyről: A Fidesz-szavazók fele nem ért egyet a kormány börtönnarratívájával
A friss felmérésből látszik, hogy az ügy körüli felháborodás nem kizárólag az ellenzéki szavazókra korlátozódik.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Update on Hungary child abuse scandal: Independent Hungarian public opinion research group reports that pro-government voters disagree with government PR campaign slandering the victims as criminals. telex.hu/belfold/2025...
My own coverage on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/marcrosc...
My own coverage on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/marcrosc...
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Hungarian PM Orbán claims he prevented a “declaration of war on Russia” by blocking the use of frozen assets and refusing to back the EU’s €90B loan for Ukraine. Poland’s FM Sikorski responded with sarcasm, posting an image of the Soviet Union’s Order of Lenin medal.
December 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Hungarian PM Orbán claims he prevented a “declaration of war on Russia” by blocking the use of frozen assets and refusing to back the EU’s €90B loan for Ukraine. Poland’s FM Sikorski responded with sarcasm, posting an image of the Soviet Union’s Order of Lenin medal.
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“FanDuel and DraftKings contribute money (however paltry) to anti-addiction efforts, while also steadily deepening fans’ dependence on betting … It’s moral laundering reminiscent of the tobacco companies that once insisted they weren’t encouraging teens to smoke.”
– Peter W. Marty
– Peter W. Marty
Playing to lose
I witnessed the sports betting empire ruin one man’s life. It’s coming for millions...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“FanDuel and DraftKings contribute money (however paltry) to anti-addiction efforts, while also steadily deepening fans’ dependence on betting … It’s moral laundering reminiscent of the tobacco companies that once insisted they weren’t encouraging teens to smoke.”
– Peter W. Marty
– Peter W. Marty
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“The fascism debate is evidence that we don’t have a clear picture of our terrifying authoritarian and racial-nationalist present.”
– Mac Loftin
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– Mac Loftin
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It’s time to stop debating about the word “fascism”
What we can actually learn from last century’s antifascist writers has to do with their fear and confusion.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“The fascism debate is evidence that we don’t have a clear picture of our terrifying authoritarian and racial-nationalist present.”
– Mac Loftin
www.christiancentury.org/features/fas...
– Mac Loftin
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“A properly apolitical nativity scene, we’re led to believe, would tastefully decorate lawns and mantles, signifying nothing other than the common faith that transcends conflict over things like war and oppression … But what could possibly be more political than that?”
– Mac Loftin
– Mac Loftin
All nativity scenes are political
The anti-ICE and “Christ in the rubble” nativity scenes are also theologically profound—and fully in keeping with the best Christmas...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“A properly apolitical nativity scene, we’re led to believe, would tastefully decorate lawns and mantles, signifying nothing other than the common faith that transcends conflict over things like war and oppression … But what could possibly be more political than that?”
– Mac Loftin
– Mac Loftin
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“The potluck is an act of faith. You don’t think you bring it all, but you also don’t think you have nothing to do with it. You bring something.”
– Amy Frykholm
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– Amy Frykholm
www.christiancentury.org/features/the...
The theology of impossible cheeseburger pie
Even a bland casserole, when shared in community, has the potential for redemption.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“The potluck is an act of faith. You don’t think you bring it all, but you also don’t think you have nothing to do with it. You bring something.”
– Amy Frykholm
www.christiancentury.org/features/the...
– Amy Frykholm
www.christiancentury.org/features/the...
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“Gossip tends to work like a bad novelist. It smooths everything out. It turns complex actions into simple, legible ones and cuts ambiguities down to a single dimension.”
– @philipchristman.bsky.social
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– @philipchristman.bsky.social
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The poverty of gossip
It’s not just that it’s sadistic. It also lacks aesthetic or psychological...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Gossip tends to work like a bad novelist. It smooths everything out. It turns complex actions into simple, legible ones and cuts ambiguities down to a single dimension.”
– @philipchristman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/voices/pover...
– @philipchristman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/voices/pover...
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Crops shrink and sizzle
in pernicious heat
it’s fine
I’ve stacked
enough energy drinks
in my caves
for you
to ride at dawn
– read the complete new poem from Heidi Neumark: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/king-...
in pernicious heat
it’s fine
I’ve stacked
enough energy drinks
in my caves
for you
to ride at dawn
– read the complete new poem from Heidi Neumark: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/king-...
King Ahab (1 Kings 18:1–6)
A poem from Heidi Neumark
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December 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Crops shrink and sizzle
in pernicious heat
it’s fine
I’ve stacked
enough energy drinks
in my caves
for you
to ride at dawn
– read the complete new poem from Heidi Neumark: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/king-...
in pernicious heat
it’s fine
I’ve stacked
enough energy drinks
in my caves
for you
to ride at dawn
– read the complete new poem from Heidi Neumark: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/king-...
Reposted by Marc Roscoe Loustau
After watching Die My Love, columnist Kathryn Reklis considers just how dismal the state of motherhood in popular culture has become.
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www.christiancentury.org/screen-time/...
The mother load
In Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence’s character seems to have intuited an invisible straitjacket of maternal expectations, and she is desperate to shake it...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
After watching Die My Love, columnist Kathryn Reklis considers just how dismal the state of motherhood in popular culture has become.
www.christiancentury.org/screen-time/...
www.christiancentury.org/screen-time/...
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“In Humans: A Monstrous History, British historian @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social offers a scholarly exploration of monsters and monster-making through the ages.”
– review by A. Trevor Sutton
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@ucpress.bsky.social
– review by A. Trevor Sutton
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@ucpress.bsky.social
The monsters we make
Historian Surekha Davies exposes humanity’s long-standing practice of turning difference into...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“In Humans: A Monstrous History, British historian @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social offers a scholarly exploration of monsters and monster-making through the ages.”
– review by A. Trevor Sutton
www.christiancentury.org/books/monste...
@ucpress.bsky.social
– review by A. Trevor Sutton
www.christiancentury.org/books/monste...
@ucpress.bsky.social