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.
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
True North’s Real Estate Development is just priming for its move into senior’s housing.
January 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
True North’s Real Estate Development is just priming for its move into senior’s housing.
2025 was hard, for all sorts of reasons. But I read some good books along the way. Here’s to a big 2026, where maybe some of you will have my book on your “read” list 👀
December 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
2025 was hard, for all sorts of reasons. But I read some good books along the way. Here’s to a big 2026, where maybe some of you will have my book on your “read” list 👀
This is honestly crazy.
#NHLJets Josh Morrissey makes Team Canada. Mark Scheifele does not.
Winnipeg's Mark Stone and Elkorn's Travis Sanheim make Team Canada, too.
Winnipeg's Mark Stone and Elkorn's Travis Sanheim make Team Canada, too.
December 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is honestly crazy.
Isn’t it cool how climate change is wreaking havoc on our sustainable energy sources?
Severe drought leads to urgent order for Manitoba Hydro to raise rates by 4% on Jan. 1
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Severe drought leads to urgent order for Manitoba Hydro to raise rates by 4% on Jan. 1 | CBC News
Manitoba Hydro rates will rise four per cent on Jan. 1 as part of an interim general rate hike the Public Utilities Board says it has ordered "on an urgent basis because of a severe drought."
www.cbc.ca
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Isn’t it cool how climate change is wreaking havoc on our sustainable energy sources?
One of the weirder things that evangelical-megachurchy types do is posting videos of them worshipping on social media. Seems like they missed the Bible verse about that…
December 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
One of the weirder things that evangelical-megachurchy types do is posting videos of them worshipping on social media. Seems like they missed the Bible verse about that…
I read most of this during last Christmas, but only finished the last quarter this week. Don’t let my pace fool you, this was well worth the read.
Really pleased to have received a copy of @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social’s newest today. I’m only 30 pages in but already learning a ton about the place I call home.
December 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I read most of this during last Christmas, but only finished the last quarter this week. Don’t let my pace fool you, this was well worth the read.
Read this:
December 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Read this:
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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Hence the increased tax. If they could do it 150 years ago with a fraction of the population base it can be done again. The amount of personal debt we’re asking citizens to carry to subsidize the auto-sector instead of investing in a proper national transportation system is embarrassing.
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hence the increased tax. If they could do it 150 years ago with a fraction of the population base it can be done again. The amount of personal debt we’re asking citizens to carry to subsidize the auto-sector instead of investing in a proper national transportation system is embarrassing.
Hey look, a Facebook memory from nearly a decade ago neatly summarizing the thesis for a course I’m teaching for the first time next semester.
December 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hey look, a Facebook memory from nearly a decade ago neatly summarizing the thesis for a course I’m teaching for the first time next semester.
Jon won’t self promote, so I’m taking it upon myself to Jon-promote.
If being a freelance theologian means regularly having to come up with self promotion and clickbait, I'm just not going to make it. (No shade on those few who manage to do it with integrity).
December 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Jon won’t self promote, so I’m taking it upon myself to Jon-promote.
My most Manitoban take: it’s a very weird thought that some (read: most) people celebrate Christmas in places where it’s not freezing cold.
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My most Manitoban take: it’s a very weird thought that some (read: most) people celebrate Christmas in places where it’s not freezing cold.
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”
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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?
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Ahead of winter break @winnipegfreepress.com boarded an #mbed outreach team's morning drop-off shuttle.
Daily, free and door-to-door service to school is key in Inner City Youth Alive's plan to address chronic absenteeism in the North End #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Daily, free and door-to-door service to school is key in Inner City Youth Alive's plan to address chronic absenteeism in the North End #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Inner-city outreach workers take on truancy one student at a time
It’s shortly after 10 a.m. on a recent Monday morning, and Sam Ayigbe is navigating North End streets in a minivan, heat on full blast. The van’s dashboard reads -10 C, but it feels far colder with th...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ahead of winter break @winnipegfreepress.com boarded an #mbed outreach team's morning drop-off shuttle.
Daily, free and door-to-door service to school is key in Inner City Youth Alive's plan to address chronic absenteeism in the North End #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Daily, free and door-to-door service to school is key in Inner City Youth Alive's plan to address chronic absenteeism in the North End #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
It looks like Copilot (because IT still hasn’t turned it off yet) has now built in “rewrite” and “summarize” features into Word. Do I need to go back to handwritten essays now?
Does anybody know if Word changed how you disable Copilot? Is it still an option even?
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It looks like Copilot (because IT still hasn’t turned it off yet) has now built in “rewrite” and “summarize” features into Word. Do I need to go back to handwritten essays now?
Me, when writing: “I wish I would’ve taken better notes when I was reading that book.”
Me, while reading: “nah, I’m sure I’ll remember that later.”
*repeat ad infinitum*
Me, while reading: “nah, I’m sure I’ll remember that later.”
*repeat ad infinitum*
December 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Me, when writing: “I wish I would’ve taken better notes when I was reading that book.”
Me, while reading: “nah, I’m sure I’ll remember that later.”
*repeat ad infinitum*
Me, while reading: “nah, I’m sure I’ll remember that later.”
*repeat ad infinitum*
Morgan Barron has arrived (just waiting for the rest of the Jets to show up).
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Morgan Barron has arrived (just waiting for the rest of the Jets to show up).