Sally Douglas
@sallydouglas.bsky.social
New Testament Scholar, Theologian, Minister, Author: Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine; The Church as Salt; Jesus Sophia. Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia.
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Please liberal Christians read Eugene Peterson www.christiancentury.org/features/ple...
Please, liberal Christians, read Eugene Peterson
I’m not too proud to...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Please liberal Christians read Eugene Peterson www.christiancentury.org/features/ple...
Rewilding Prayer is now available:
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October 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Rewilding Prayer is now available:
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For our Australian members close to Melbourne BUT there are online options too for international folks who are further away (or in different time zones...):
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To Listen and Respond: Dialogue as Feminist Method
Our Annual ACFT Conference (including the Janette Gray RSM Lecture 2025) will take place 7-8 November 2025. All are welcome.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
For our Australian members close to Melbourne BUT there are online options too for international folks who are further away (or in different time zones...):
events.humanitix.com/to-listen-an...
events.humanitix.com/to-listen-an...
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Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
A glimpse of the cover of my new book REWILDING PRAYER, with hearty thanks to designer Mike Surber from Cascade Books.
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
A glimpse of the cover of my new book REWILDING PRAYER, with hearty thanks to designer Mike Surber from Cascade Books.
It is on the way…
September 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It is on the way…
This!
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This!
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"The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair," Gisela Salim-Peyer writes of her experience growing up in Venezuela:
Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
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September 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair," Gisela Salim-Peyer writes of her experience growing up in Venezuela:
So am I. Fellow New Testament scholars, how might we build alliances across the globe to protect our work from AI harvesting?
@sblsite.bsky.social
@sblsite.bsky.social
I'm in here three times! Do follow through on this, fellow authors.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
September 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So am I. Fellow New Testament scholars, how might we build alliances across the globe to protect our work from AI harvesting?
@sblsite.bsky.social
@sblsite.bsky.social
Uncomfortable with the idea that Jesus died for our sins?
In the New Testament other understandings of salvation are not only present, they are more dominant.
My latest (open access) article explores one of these and its potency in our stormy world:
unitingchurchstudies.org.au/index.php/uc...
In the New Testament other understandings of salvation are not only present, they are more dominant.
My latest (open access) article explores one of these and its potency in our stormy world:
unitingchurchstudies.org.au/index.php/uc...
August 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Uncomfortable with the idea that Jesus died for our sins?
In the New Testament other understandings of salvation are not only present, they are more dominant.
My latest (open access) article explores one of these and its potency in our stormy world:
unitingchurchstudies.org.au/index.php/uc...
In the New Testament other understandings of salvation are not only present, they are more dominant.
My latest (open access) article explores one of these and its potency in our stormy world:
unitingchurchstudies.org.au/index.php/uc...
“The greatest reason to take AI doomers seriously is not because it appears more likely that tech companies will soon develop all-powerful algorithms … Rather, it is that a tiny number of individuals are shaping an incredibly consequential technology with very little public input or oversight. “
Some in the AI industry have repeatedly warned that bots could one day go rogue—with apocalyptic consequences, Matteo Wong writes.
As one AI doomer tells Wong: “We’ve run out of time."
As one AI doomer tells Wong: “We’ve run out of time."
The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier
The industry’s apocalyptic voices are becoming more panicked—and harder to dismiss.
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August 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“The greatest reason to take AI doomers seriously is not because it appears more likely that tech companies will soon develop all-powerful algorithms … Rather, it is that a tiny number of individuals are shaping an incredibly consequential technology with very little public input or oversight. “
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“It’s like being asked to train up your own replacement – for free.” – @patrickstokes.com on #GenAI and #artists
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
AI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped?
Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that no-one will care.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“It’s like being asked to train up your own replacement – for free.” – @patrickstokes.com on #GenAI and #artists
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
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Fear is an attention hungry little liar thecorners.substack.com/p/fear-is-an...
Fear is an attention hungry little liar
“Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” - Luke 12
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August 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Fear is an attention hungry little liar thecorners.substack.com/p/fear-is-an...
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A strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era, @cwarzel.bsky.social argues. “It seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.”
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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August 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era, @cwarzel.bsky.social argues. “It seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.”
“… such acts, multiplied across a society, can quietly erode the foundations of power. Arendt admired such acts not for their spectacle but for their stubbornness.”
Thanks for sharing @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and thanks for writing @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and thanks for writing @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social on our responsibility when living under under tyranny, riffing on Arendt. medium.com/amor-mundi/o...
On Tyranny, Its Causes, and Our Personal Responsibility
by Roger Berkowitz
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August 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“… such acts, multiplied across a society, can quietly erode the foundations of power. Arendt admired such acts not for their spectacle but for their stubbornness.”
Thanks for sharing @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and thanks for writing @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and thanks for writing @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
“I see politeness* as today’s punk rock because it so transgresses the spirit of our times . . . It is the ultimate exercise in freedom: the freedom to be the person I want to be in the face of a cultural tyranny.” Arthur C Brooks
*and I would add proactive kindness
*and I would add proactive kindness
“Virtually everyone agrees that people are becoming ruder,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. But though you may not be able to fix the broader trends in society, you can—and should—be polite for your own sake.
The Power of Politeness
Being courteous can be challenging in these times of online snark, but it is guaranteed to make you happier.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“I see politeness* as today’s punk rock because it so transgresses the spirit of our times . . . It is the ultimate exercise in freedom: the freedom to be the person I want to be in the face of a cultural tyranny.” Arthur C Brooks
*and I would add proactive kindness
*and I would add proactive kindness
Good to explore the lectionary readings for Sunday with Old Testament scholar Howard Wallace on the By the Well podcast: bythewell.com.au/episodes/c23...
C234 Pentecost 8
Howard and Sally does Hosea 11.1-11, Psalm 107.1-9, 43, Colossians 3.1-11(12), Luke 12.13-21. They explore the imagery of God as parent in Hosea, new life in Christ in Colossians and the parable of th...
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July 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Good to explore the lectionary readings for Sunday with Old Testament scholar Howard Wallace on the By the Well podcast: bythewell.com.au/episodes/c23...
July 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Good to explore this week’s readings with my excellent colleague, Old Testamant scholar, Monica Melanchthon:
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By the Well
Religion & Spirituality Podcast · Updated Daily · By the Well is a weekly lectionary-based podcast for preachers. Each week we take a deep dive into some of the texts from the Revised Common Lectionar...
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July 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Good to explore this week’s readings with my excellent colleague, Old Testamant scholar, Monica Melanchthon:
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...
It was good to be with people from across denominations - Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox - to explore the Nicene Creed at the Remembering Nicaea conference. People stayed in the room, disagreed well, and prayed together. Great to give a paper and to lead worship in this ecumenical context.
July 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It was good to be with people from across denominations - Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox - to explore the Nicene Creed at the Remembering Nicaea conference. People stayed in the room, disagreed well, and prayed together. Great to give a paper and to lead worship in this ecumenical context.
“We just come up with some truly terrible ways of trying to ensure we are seen and loved…and then we end up in conflict or competition with all the other people who are also trying in weird ways to be seen and loved” Nadia Bolz-Weber
Our hungry scared little egos thecorners.substack.com/p/our-hungry...
Our hungry scared little egos
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and…
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July 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“We just come up with some truly terrible ways of trying to ensure we are seen and loved…and then we end up in conflict or competition with all the other people who are also trying in weird ways to be seen and loved” Nadia Bolz-Weber