Keanu Heydari
@keanuheydari.bsky.social
History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
The Beaune Altarpiece.
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The Beaune Altarpiece.
I can’t believe it!
New from St Michael's Abbey Press : Breviarium Monasticum (1962)
www.theabbeyshop.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I can’t believe it!
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I've been thinking a lot about how this period will be written about, 20, 50 years from now, and the level of governmental collapse is pretty hard to fathom in the moment, but will be crystal clear from that future vantage point.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I've been thinking a lot about how this period will be written about, 20, 50 years from now, and the level of governmental collapse is pretty hard to fathom in the moment, but will be crystal clear from that future vantage point.
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
From a prayer of confession in the Book of Common Worship.
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From a prayer of confession in the Book of Common Worship.
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Chile's presidential race heads to runoff between communist and hard-right candidates
Chile's presidential race heads to runoff between communist and hard-right candidates
Jeannette Jara, 51, a communist and former labor minister representing Chile's center-left governing coalition, received over 26% of votes with over 80% counted – insufficient to win outright in the first round. Hard-right ex-lawmaker and devout Catholic José Antonio Kast, 59, captured more than 24%. The race now goes to a second round on December 14.
www.lemonde.fr
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Chile's presidential race heads to runoff between communist and hard-right candidates
A new post from me. Paniz Faryousefi conducted the Tehran Symphony Orchestra this week. A real moment of visibility for women in Iranian classical music, which leaves open the question of how far institutions and laws in Iran are actually shifting.
A Woman on the Podium: Paniz Faryousefi and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra — Keanu Heydari
In mid-November 2025, Iranian violinist and conductor Paniz Faryousefi led the Tehran Symphony Orchestra at Vahdat Hall in concerts titled “Land of Simorgh,” which Iranian and international outlets de...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A new post from me. Paniz Faryousefi conducted the Tehran Symphony Orchestra this week. A real moment of visibility for women in Iranian classical music, which leaves open the question of how far institutions and laws in Iran are actually shifting.
Can a Christian Thanksgiving really ignore who is missing from the table this year? Can it ignore the dispossessed? The forcibly disappeared migrants? The victims of greed and exploitation? To paraphrase Richard Rohr: we deny our monotheism if we deny the dignity of any human being.
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Can a Christian Thanksgiving really ignore who is missing from the table this year? Can it ignore the dispossessed? The forcibly disappeared migrants? The victims of greed and exploitation? To paraphrase Richard Rohr: we deny our monotheism if we deny the dignity of any human being.
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The best Christian movie of the 21st century being an austere Dutch Neocalvinist polemic against megachurch charismaticism is kinda funny.
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The best Christian movie of the 21st century being an austere Dutch Neocalvinist polemic against megachurch charismaticism is kinda funny.
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She's very clearly trying to be the Marine Le Pen to Trump's Jean-Marie, and has made a smart bet on the utter credulity of a large swath of the pundit class.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is standing up to Trump on the Epstein files, but she's also urging Dana Bash to interview outspoken antisemite Nick Fuentes. She wants to push Trump aside for something even worse.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Apologizes for Her ‘Toxic Politics’
Greene’s comments come as she is embroiled in a public feud with Trump over his refusal to release the Epstein files.
time.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
She's very clearly trying to be the Marine Le Pen to Trump's Jean-Marie, and has made a smart bet on the utter credulity of a large swath of the pundit class.
Currently reading. It’s really good.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Currently reading. It’s really good.
“There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to. Americans have always used a lot of drugs — even in the white suburbs and rural areas that Mr. Trump’s supporters call the ‘real America.’”
Opinion | I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to. Americans have always used a lot of drugs — even in the white suburbs and rural areas that Mr. Trump’s supporters call the ‘real America.’”
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Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
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it's easy to dunk on what is a risible, even unconscionable headline
it seems to me however that the emails throw a spotlight not so much on a "lost" New York, but rather a _new_ one -- the NYC that emerged after the 1980s, when the Reagan Revolution & globalization transformed the city,
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it seems to me however that the emails throw a spotlight not so much on a "lost" New York, but rather a _new_ one -- the NYC that emerged after the 1980s, when the Reagan Revolution & globalization transformed the city,
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November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
it's easy to dunk on what is a risible, even unconscionable headline
it seems to me however that the emails throw a spotlight not so much on a "lost" New York, but rather a _new_ one -- the NYC that emerged after the 1980s, when the Reagan Revolution & globalization transformed the city,
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it seems to me however that the emails throw a spotlight not so much on a "lost" New York, but rather a _new_ one -- the NYC that emerged after the 1980s, when the Reagan Revolution & globalization transformed the city,
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Some scholars claim left-wing Christians are special pleading when they deny that fascist groups parading under the name of Jesus are truly Christian. That charge assumes an uncritical trust in self-description that serious analysis should, at a minimum, trouble.
The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Some scholars claim left-wing Christians are special pleading when they deny that fascist groups parading under the name of Jesus are truly Christian. That charge assumes an uncritical trust in self-description that serious analysis should, at a minimum, trouble.
Ian is very kind and diplomatic in this thread. I am not as kind or diplomatic. Praise bands are an awful, net negative historical development in the church and should be gradually phased out in favor of more reverent and less emotionally manipulative music.
controversial hot take incoming, but it just came to my mind that praise band worship is a manifestation of “everyone is 12 theory” in the church, and that the consequences of the sea-wave shift to praise band aesthetics is also a fundamental player in the “12ification” of American adults
November 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ian is very kind and diplomatic in this thread. I am not as kind or diplomatic. Praise bands are an awful, net negative historical development in the church and should be gradually phased out in favor of more reverent and less emotionally manipulative music.
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Hi, Bluesky! I'm Rev. Lucus Levy Keppel, a Presbyterian pastor and author.
I’ll be sharing reflections & videos as I write my upcoming book, "Truly Good News", exploring Christian Universalism.
Expect thoughts on theology, grace, science, and hope that includes everyone!
I’ll be sharing reflections & videos as I write my upcoming book, "Truly Good News", exploring Christian Universalism.
Expect thoughts on theology, grace, science, and hope that includes everyone!
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Hi, Bluesky! I'm Rev. Lucus Levy Keppel, a Presbyterian pastor and author.
I’ll be sharing reflections & videos as I write my upcoming book, "Truly Good News", exploring Christian Universalism.
Expect thoughts on theology, grace, science, and hope that includes everyone!
I’ll be sharing reflections & videos as I write my upcoming book, "Truly Good News", exploring Christian Universalism.
Expect thoughts on theology, grace, science, and hope that includes everyone!
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
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From THEOLOGY AS CRITICAL REFLECTION ON PRAXIS
"This is a theology which does not stop with reflecting on the world but rather tries to be part of the process through which the world is transformed. It is a theology which is open -
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"This is a theology which does not stop with reflecting on the world but rather tries to be part of the process through which the world is transformed. It is a theology which is open -
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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 11:26 PM
From THEOLOGY AS CRITICAL REFLECTION ON PRAXIS
"This is a theology which does not stop with reflecting on the world but rather tries to be part of the process through which the world is transformed. It is a theology which is open -
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"This is a theology which does not stop with reflecting on the world but rather tries to be part of the process through which the world is transformed. It is a theology which is open -
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Further evidence that everything in the world indeed circles back to Karl Barth. See below my translation from an interview with a former Iranian student activist conducted by one of my dissertation committee members in the late 1980s.
![Screenshot of a text document showing two bulleted lines from an interview transcript. The first bullet reads “Interviewer: I can help you with that.” The second bullet begins with the speaker’s name blacked out, followed by a long paragraph. The speaker explains that in his youth, before the 28 Mordad coup, Mr. [name blacked out] had been a member of the Tudeh Party’s Youth Organization. They met in Europe, became friends, and through this connection linked up with a Munich group. To help save several condemned men, they undertook various efforts, including a trip to Switzerland where the speaker and a friend met six or seven prominent cultural figures and gathered their signatures in support of the prisoners. The paragraph notes that these figures included the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt and the Swiss theologian Karl Barth, described as then regarded as the leading Catholic theologian in the world. The speaker says they met some signatories in person and offers this story as an example of how such contacts led them into broader political activities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bblrvbttqkzjsnrj265n5dmp/bafkreibxhl3drsqnzbgen7a23hco2odzfxxhexuaxqvuygas2vs7wszo2a@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Further evidence that everything in the world indeed circles back to Karl Barth. See below my translation from an interview with a former Iranian student activist conducted by one of my dissertation committee members in the late 1980s.
If you’re looking for something to do today, take a look at my post on Barth and his “actualist ontology.” Link below.
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you’re looking for something to do today, take a look at my post on Barth and his “actualist ontology.” Link below.
Yup. They did it lol
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Yup. They did it lol
