Joel Looper
@joelbglooper.bsky.social
Writer & Editor. “Bonhoeffer’s America” and “Another Gospel.” Anabaptist.
Check out my interview with Gregory Alan Taylor about “Another Gospel.” substack.com/@holyheretic...
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Under Trump’s new reign, “Christians will deport other Christians to their deaths…”
https://open.substack.com/pub/holyheretics/p/another-gospel-wjoel-looper?r=2cc7z6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&...
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December 23, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Check out my interview with Gregory Alan Taylor about “Another Gospel.” substack.com/@holyheretic...
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Duke New Testament emeritus professor Richard B. Hays is in hospice.
www.caringbridge.org/site/5c09fa5...
Kate Bowler posted a podcast interview with him in September.
katebowler.com/podcasts/cha...
www.caringbridge.org/site/5c09fa5...
Kate Bowler posted a podcast interview with him in September.
katebowler.com/podcasts/cha...
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December 21, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Duke New Testament emeritus professor Richard B. Hays is in hospice.
www.caringbridge.org/site/5c09fa5...
Kate Bowler posted a podcast interview with him in September.
katebowler.com/podcasts/cha...
www.caringbridge.org/site/5c09fa5...
Kate Bowler posted a podcast interview with him in September.
katebowler.com/podcasts/cha...
All this is just so…predictable.
CNN confirmed on-air just now that top Trump aides are furiously calling journalists to insist that Elon Musk has been following the orders of Trump rather than the other way around. As predicted, Trump is horrified and enraged at the idea that Musk is now seen as the President of the United States.
December 21, 2024 at 3:12 AM
All this is just so…predictable.
The Canadians should issue an official statement re: Trump’s comments that simply says, “Grow up.”
December 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
The Canadians should issue an official statement re: Trump’s comments that simply says, “Grow up.”
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Whoa.
Half of Episcopalians have celebrated their 65th birthday.
13% are under the age of 18.
There are about 400,000 weekly attenders in TEC.
Barring a major revival.
A best case scenario is the church will be under 250K regular attendees in 20 years.
13% are under the age of 18.
There are about 400,000 weekly attenders in TEC.
Barring a major revival.
A best case scenario is the church will be under 250K regular attendees in 20 years.
December 19, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Whoa.
Exercising my freedom to include links in initial posts. www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/gender-ide...
Gender Identity, Religion and Political Ideology in 2023
This post has been unlocked through a generous grant from the Lilly Endowment for the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA).
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December 19, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Exercising my freedom to include links in initial posts. www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/gender-ide...
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Should be in every newsagents window.
December 17, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Should be in every newsagents window.
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The evening I needed.
December 18, 2024 at 2:48 AM
The evening I needed.
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If people who lie, distort, and misrepresent you—and benefit from doing so—have power over your life and wellbeing, I gently exhort you to rethink your life.
December 18, 2024 at 12:27 AM
If people who lie, distort, and misrepresent you—and benefit from doing so—have power over your life and wellbeing, I gently exhort you to rethink your life.
Just repulsive.
A megachurch pastor in the Carolinas is releasing a paid-for app ($49) that allows his congregation members to pray with his AI avatar. This is the kind of demonic slop that needs to be anathemized.
December 17, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Just repulsive.
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A megachurch pastor in the Carolinas is releasing a paid-for app ($49) that allows his congregation members to pray with his AI avatar. This is the kind of demonic slop that needs to be anathemized.
December 17, 2024 at 10:18 PM
A megachurch pastor in the Carolinas is releasing a paid-for app ($49) that allows his congregation members to pray with his AI avatar. This is the kind of demonic slop that needs to be anathemized.
McConnell makes this statement after Trump moved against Sen Ernst’s resistance to Hegseth’s nomination.
Seems like McConnell’s signaling to Trump that he’s willing and able to hurt him if he doesn’t keep McConnell in the loop.
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Seems like McConnell’s signaling to Trump that he’s willing and able to hurt him if he doesn’t keep McConnell in the loop.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
MSN
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December 17, 2024 at 6:03 PM
McConnell makes this statement after Trump moved against Sen Ernst’s resistance to Hegseth’s nomination.
Seems like McConnell’s signaling to Trump that he’s willing and able to hurt him if he doesn’t keep McConnell in the loop.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Seems like McConnell’s signaling to Trump that he’s willing and able to hurt him if he doesn’t keep McConnell in the loop.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Moves like this are THE path to authoritarian rule in America because it’s the only path to killing off independent media.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/m...
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Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey | CNN Business
President-elect Donald Trump is escalating his legal campaign against media outlets by suing renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register newspaper and its parent company...
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December 17, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Moves like this are THE path to authoritarian rule in America because it’s the only path to killing off independent media.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/m...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/m...
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Zen Hess (Baylor University) recently conducted a survey of scholarly opinions on how involved Paul was in composing the letters attributed to him.
At SBL 2025 (#aarsbl25), the Pauline Epistles unit will host a related conversation on authenticity in the study of Paul.
Details below!
At SBL 2025 (#aarsbl25), the Pauline Epistles unit will host a related conversation on authenticity in the study of Paul.
Details below!
December 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Zen Hess (Baylor University) recently conducted a survey of scholarly opinions on how involved Paul was in composing the letters attributed to him.
At SBL 2025 (#aarsbl25), the Pauline Epistles unit will host a related conversation on authenticity in the study of Paul.
Details below!
At SBL 2025 (#aarsbl25), the Pauline Epistles unit will host a related conversation on authenticity in the study of Paul.
Details below!
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”
December 16, 2024 at 5:53 PM
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”
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For those confused: ABC had to settle because an employee said, on-air, that Trump was found liable for Rape by a JURY.
What Stephanopoulos meant to say is that the Sexual Abuse Trump was found liable for by a jury was thereafter held by a JUDGE to be what the common person understands as “Rape.”
What Stephanopoulos meant to say is that the Sexual Abuse Trump was found liable for by a jury was thereafter held by a JUDGE to be what the common person understands as “Rape.”
ABC News settles defamation suit with Trump for $15 million | CNN Politics
ABC News will pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” in a settlement reached with President-elect Donald Trump in his defamation suit against the network and anchor George Stephanop...
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December 14, 2024 at 10:55 PM
For those confused: ABC had to settle because an employee said, on-air, that Trump was found liable for Rape by a JURY.
What Stephanopoulos meant to say is that the Sexual Abuse Trump was found liable for by a jury was thereafter held by a JUDGE to be what the common person understands as “Rape.”
What Stephanopoulos meant to say is that the Sexual Abuse Trump was found liable for by a jury was thereafter held by a JUDGE to be what the common person understands as “Rape.”
DOGE : DODGE :: MAGA : Reagan Republican
December 12, 2024 at 4:10 PM
DOGE : DODGE :: MAGA : Reagan Republican
13/20.
Read this novel for the first time in order to teach it. Extraordinary.
Read this novel for the first time in order to teach it. Extraordinary.
December 12, 2024 at 1:50 PM
13/20.
Read this novel for the first time in order to teach it. Extraordinary.
Read this novel for the first time in order to teach it. Extraordinary.
Read this. So clearly put. Adjunctification is happening outside theological education too, of course. But it’s a particularly big problem for the reasons he lays out at the end of the post. open.substack.com/pub/ryanburg...
How Many Faculty are Teaching at Seminaries?
A comparison of ATS data over the last 20 years.
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December 12, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Read this. So clearly put. Adjunctification is happening outside theological education too, of course. But it’s a particularly big problem for the reasons he lays out at the end of the post. open.substack.com/pub/ryanburg...
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