Jon Coutts
@joncoutts.bsky.social
Scotch-Canadian theologian writing a book on Bonhoeffer. Film lover and lifelong fan of #LFC and the #Canucks.
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The moral arc of the universe needs to get bent.
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The moral arc of the universe needs to get bent.
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UVA’s faculty senate is pulling no punches
Resolution Calling for Leadership Rooted in Transparency and Accountability | Faculty Senate, U.Va.
facultysenate.virginia.edu
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
UVA’s faculty senate is pulling no punches
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
Finally watching that Bonhoeffer movie. At first I was okay with some of the ways it was translating the story into the Hallmark genre from the retrospect of the prison letters -- but it just keeps making stuff up that's more or less turning Dietrich into an all american hero
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Finally watching that Bonhoeffer movie. At first I was okay with some of the ways it was translating the story into the Hallmark genre from the retrospect of the prison letters -- but it just keeps making stuff up that's more or less turning Dietrich into an all american hero
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The CFP for the Canadian Theological Society’s 2026 Annual Meeting is now live! We’re meeting apart from Congress alongside the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion and the Canadian Society of Church History. I’m excited to welcome everyone to Winnipeg in June. cts-stc.ca/2025/11/14/2...
2026 CTS Call for Papers – Canadian Theological Society
cts-stc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The CFP for the Canadian Theological Society’s 2026 Annual Meeting is now live! We’re meeting apart from Congress alongside the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion and the Canadian Society of Church History. I’m excited to welcome everyone to Winnipeg in June. cts-stc.ca/2025/11/14/2...
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Michael Wolff stood by for a DECADE with evidence that Epstein and Trump were pedophiles and did NOTHING.
Wolff: I was trying to encourage Epstein to use what information he had—let Trump publicly tell a lie then expose the lie. Epstein was afraid of Trump. In the end, I think he was starting to get to this point that he might publicly talk about this relationship but then he was arrested and died.
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Michael Wolff stood by for a DECADE with evidence that Epstein and Trump were pedophiles and did NOTHING.
I'm just reacting to headlines here, but it's kinda problematic when settler-canadians leave it to indigenous communities to be the sole backstop for ecological responsibility.
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I'm just reacting to headlines here, but it's kinda problematic when settler-canadians leave it to indigenous communities to be the sole backstop for ecological responsibility.
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“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man…”
—G.K. Chesterton
—G.K. Chesterton
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man…”
—G.K. Chesterton
—G.K. Chesterton
Another day spent imagining myself somewhere so I can write an earnest job application, which I will now try to forget
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Another day spent imagining myself somewhere so I can write an earnest job application, which I will now try to forget
RIP Homayoun Ershadi
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
RIP Homayoun Ershadi
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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I haven’t seen a Biblical Stud have a night this bad since Delilah cut Samson’s hair off
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I haven’t seen a Biblical Stud have a night this bad since Delilah cut Samson’s hair off
Later in the broadcast booth the commentators were fawning over him and covering up for his gibberish, which says it all
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Later in the broadcast booth the commentators were fawning over him and covering up for his gibberish, which says it all
Another awful call. Unbelievable
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Another awful call. Unbelievable
Awful VAR there. Clear and obvious fail
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Awful VAR there. Clear and obvious fail
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
I've watched more Radiohead clips from Madrid than planned
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I've watched more Radiohead clips from Madrid than planned
Just happily realized it's been a minute since I saw an ad for a stupid superhero movie
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Just happily realized it's been a minute since I saw an ad for a stupid superhero movie
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Classless move by the Leafs giving each of Tavares' two sons a stick but not his daughter
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Classless move by the Leafs giving each of Tavares' two sons a stick but not his daughter
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
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I wrote an angry scree about the Albertan government and my local paper posted it.
www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/lett...
www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/lett...
LETTER: Back-to-work bill should be breaking point
Conservatives used to hold bedrock rights as absolute and sacred, but it would appear that the UCP no longer does.
www.westernwheel.ca
October 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I wrote an angry scree about the Albertan government and my local paper posted it.
www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/lett...
www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/lett...
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Since I haven't seen anybody do the most Canadian thing possible yet, let me add this entry in the list of perfect albums from 1989 (NB, this is their first full studio album):
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Since I haven't seen anybody do the most Canadian thing possible yet, let me add this entry in the list of perfect albums from 1989 (NB, this is their first full studio album):