Daniel Rempel
@drempel.bsky.social
Bible and theology prof at Providence (🇨🇦) | PhD in theological ethics from Aberdeen | long-suffering fan of the Winnipeg Jets and Arsenal Football Club
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Daniel Rempel
@drempel.bsky.social
· Sep 9
EXCITING NEWS: yesterday, I submitted the manuscript for my first book to Baylor University Press. Tentatively titled “Intellectual Disability and the Christian Life,” this book is an attempt to give language to the ongoing Christian witness of people with intellectual disabilities.
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Due to popular demand we’re now offering this course hybrid so you’re welcome to join us wherever you are in the world! #trauma #theology #learning
Drawing on contemporary psychological, pastoral, theological, and biblical research, this short course led by Dr Karen O’Donnell, Dr Alison Gray and Robin Barden will provide an introduction to trauma, theology and more. Scan QR for full course details or visit: https://buff.ly/3d012Np
January 8, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Growing up, we were taught in school that Canadians and Americans were the best of friends, evidenced by the largest unprotected land border in the world. So forgive me if I still am struggling to wrap my mind around threats to our national sovereignty.
ANALYSIS | With Trump's Venezuela move and Greenland threats, are Canadians vulnerable? | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's increasingly bellicose stance on taking over Greenland, on the heels of capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, have combined to trigger questions about what the W...
www.cbc.ca
January 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Growing up, we were taught in school that Canadians and Americans were the best of friends, evidenced by the largest unprotected land border in the world. So forgive me if I still am struggling to wrap my mind around threats to our national sovereignty.
Exodus 1 tells the story of a foreign people growing in power and the ruling nation oppressing them out of fear of the other.
Let the reader understand.
Let the reader understand.
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Exodus 1 tells the story of a foreign people growing in power and the ruling nation oppressing them out of fear of the other.
Let the reader understand.
Let the reader understand.
Grifters gonna grift.
Deceased. Disgraced. And making a comeback?
The Ravi Zacharias Library launched this week, selling more than 160 recordings of his talks and lectures for $3.50, $7 and $10.
The Ravi Zacharias Library launched this week, selling more than 160 recordings of his talks and lectures for $3.50, $7 and $10.
January 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Grifters gonna grift.
I printed this out and put it up in my office as a reminder both for my students and, more importantly, myself.
January 6, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I printed this out and put it up in my office as a reminder both for my students and, more importantly, myself.
Playing with a working definition of theology for an intro course tomorrow. Thoughts? What do you like? What am I missing?
“Theology is the prayerful study of the living God, revealed to us in Scripture, for our ongoing worship of God and love for the world.”
“Theology is the prayerful study of the living God, revealed to us in Scripture, for our ongoing worship of God and love for the world.”
January 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Playing with a working definition of theology for an intro course tomorrow. Thoughts? What do you like? What am I missing?
“Theology is the prayerful study of the living God, revealed to us in Scripture, for our ongoing worship of God and love for the world.”
“Theology is the prayerful study of the living God, revealed to us in Scripture, for our ongoing worship of God and love for the world.”
Got this sent off last night 😅
Who’s got two thumbs and planned on finishing up a journal article before Christmas only to forget two books in his office which is now locked up for the holidays?
a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window
Alt: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window. He points to himself while saying “this guy”
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January 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Got this sent off last night 😅
It’s easy to say that our corporate overlords are evil and only concerned with profit, and I think there are those for whom it’s true. What’s harder to say is that the pull of profit maximization is so strong that even well-intentioned people end up bowing to its ends.
January 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM
It’s easy to say that our corporate overlords are evil and only concerned with profit, and I think there are those for whom it’s true. What’s harder to say is that the pull of profit maximization is so strong that even well-intentioned people end up bowing to its ends.
There will be some turbulence in the interim, but I think this is a great move from the province. I’d love to see other provinces follow suit.
Manitoba cuts ties with dozens of private nursing agencies to curb reliance on the firms www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #mbpoli
Manitoba cuts ties with dozens of private nursing agencies to curb reliance on the firms | CBC News
A nurse is warning rural hospitals may have an even tougher time filling shifts in the new year as the Manitoba government ends its relationship with dozens of companies supplying its health-care syst...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:35 PM
There will be some turbulence in the interim, but I think this is a great move from the province. I’d love to see other provinces follow suit.
Drove past a church sign this morning that said “new year / same God” and I legitimately lol’d.
January 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Drove past a church sign this morning that said “new year / same God” and I legitimately lol’d.
Saw this on IG and had to share:
January 4, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Saw this on IG and had to share:
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OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public
While I’ve been longing for Scotland, it turns out Scotland has been longing for Canada.
1/2 Due to heavy snow and Met Office amber and yellow weather warnings the University will remain closed tomorrow (January 5) for a further day with most staff not returning to work until we reopen, which we are working hard to do on Tuesday (January 6). (continued)
January 4, 2026 at 2:57 PM
While I’ve been longing for Scotland, it turns out Scotland has been longing for Canada.
Thinking about Irenaeus, and how his worry wasn’t about the pagans or people from other religions but heretics, or people who spoke as “Christians” in a way that twisted the Gospel for their own ends.
We must oppose this militant Christian nationalism and its facade of salvation at every turn.
We must oppose this militant Christian nationalism and its facade of salvation at every turn.
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Thinking about Irenaeus, and how his worry wasn’t about the pagans or people from other religions but heretics, or people who spoke as “Christians” in a way that twisted the Gospel for their own ends.
We must oppose this militant Christian nationalism and its facade of salvation at every turn.
We must oppose this militant Christian nationalism and its facade of salvation at every turn.
Meanwhile, over in CPC land…
January 3, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Meanwhile, over in CPC land…
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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
Matthew 5:9
Matthew 5:9
January 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
Matthew 5:9
Matthew 5:9
Just finished reading a novel for the first time since 2022. Looking forward to the next one in 2030.
January 3, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Just finished reading a novel for the first time since 2022. Looking forward to the next one in 2030.
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It's incredibly sad how many (most?) conservative Christians have reduced "Christianity" to mean "patriarchal gender roles." That reduction is the subtext for almost every claim now about how "the culture" needs to be resisted or restored.
January 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
It's incredibly sad how many (most?) conservative Christians have reduced "Christianity" to mean "patriarchal gender roles." That reduction is the subtext for almost every claim now about how "the culture" needs to be resisted or restored.
A few days late, but my first attempt at making portzelky. Turned out pretty good!
January 3, 2026 at 12:47 AM
A few days late, but my first attempt at making portzelky. Turned out pretty good!
I wouldn’t call myself one of the “brilliant faculty,” but I did fail my grade 12 pre-calculus provincial exam (with a 49!) mostly because I couldn’t be bothered to study for a subject I found very boring.
I know a lot of brilliant faculty who got terrible grades in high school and only discovered an academic aptitude once they were studying something they cared about.
Like, not even GRE scores. SAT scores.
January 2, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I wouldn’t call myself one of the “brilliant faculty,” but I did fail my grade 12 pre-calculus provincial exam (with a 49!) mostly because I couldn’t be bothered to study for a subject I found very boring.
Seeing Chelsea supporters directing their anger at billionaire owners for ruining their club is a particular kind of Schadenfreude.
January 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Seeing Chelsea supporters directing their anger at billionaire owners for ruining their club is a particular kind of Schadenfreude.
I may be an outlier here, but I believe that naming a child is one of the more intimate aspects of welcoming them into the world. If we outsource this to ChatGPT, we’ve lost a significant aspect of our humanity.
The parents of the first baby born in 2026 in this county outside Baltimore got their name ideas from ChatGPT. Hudson Oakley Winkler.
www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/01/c...
www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/01/c...
ChatGPT named Carroll County’s first-born baby in 2026
The first baby born in Carroll County in 2026 was named with help from ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot.
www.baltimoresun.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I may be an outlier here, but I believe that naming a child is one of the more intimate aspects of welcoming them into the world. If we outsource this to ChatGPT, we’ve lost a significant aspect of our humanity.
“Heba Taylor told IHOPKC members to stop demanding accountability and justice and instead accept whatever they had suffered as Christ accepted what he suffered on the cross.”
Well, that’s not great.
Well, that’s not great.
An interesting fundraising email julieroys.com/ihopkc-raisi...
IHOPKC raising money to ‘breathe fresh life’ into ministry, ignoring recommendation for leadership changes
Despite a pastoral council urging them to step down, Joseph Taylor and his wife are now fundraising to expand IHOPKC after Bickle scandal.
julieroys.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
“Heba Taylor told IHOPKC members to stop demanding accountability and justice and instead accept whatever they had suffered as Christ accepted what he suffered on the cross.”
Well, that’s not great.
Well, that’s not great.
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital