Dr Alison Schofield
@balaganbetty.bsky.social
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Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama reads the Bible.
Strange Stories of the Bible: Part II - Blue Flower Arts
Why did the writers who wrote texts that we now call biblical write those stories? What did they know about the human condition? What were their artistic interests? Following on from last year’s expl...
blueflowerarts.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama reads the Bible.
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Deeply grounding, clear-eyed, and pragmatically hopeful. This is a MUST listen.
I talked with @ejeris.bsky.social about fascism, coalition building, and the compassion and shared knowledge we need to create safety and justice in these times. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or access a transcript + audio here:
Fascism Isn’t Coming — It’s Here. Now What?
“We don’t get to choose the people who show up for us and who save us sometimes,” says Ejeris Dixon.
truthout.org
April 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Deeply grounding, clear-eyed, and pragmatically hopeful. This is a MUST listen.
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Now with alt text.
April 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Now with alt text.
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Thank you Wil Gafney @wilgafney.bsky.social for your generous and thoughtful endorsement of Trans Biblical — available now from Westminster John Knox Press!
@wjkbooks.com
(Go to the book’s page on wjkbooks.com for the full reviews, from Dr Gafney and other esteemed colleagues)
@wjkbooks.com
(Go to the book’s page on wjkbooks.com for the full reviews, from Dr Gafney and other esteemed colleagues)
April 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thank you Wil Gafney @wilgafney.bsky.social for your generous and thoughtful endorsement of Trans Biblical — available now from Westminster John Knox Press!
@wjkbooks.com
(Go to the book’s page on wjkbooks.com for the full reviews, from Dr Gafney and other esteemed colleagues)
@wjkbooks.com
(Go to the book’s page on wjkbooks.com for the full reviews, from Dr Gafney and other esteemed colleagues)
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The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said,
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power."
This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward.
“I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now.
Here:
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power."
This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward.
“I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now.
Here:
THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST
keep all your shenanigans in one place
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said,
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power."
This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward.
“I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now.
Here:
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power."
This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward.
“I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now.
Here:
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Something to think about
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Something to think about
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"I shouldn’t have to dredge up a passage from the Babylonian Talmud in order to prove that neurodivergent people are not moral defectives and that we deserve to have the support we need."
Check out my piece on neurodivergence, MAHA, and moral stigma in @nursingclio.bsky.social:
Check out my piece on neurodivergence, MAHA, and moral stigma in @nursingclio.bsky.social:
Neurodivergence is Not a Moral Defect
Mere hours after the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services on February 13, the White House released an Executive Order entitled “Establishing the Preside…
nursingclio.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"I shouldn’t have to dredge up a passage from the Babylonian Talmud in order to prove that neurodivergent people are not moral defectives and that we deserve to have the support we need."
Check out my piece on neurodivergence, MAHA, and moral stigma in @nursingclio.bsky.social:
Check out my piece on neurodivergence, MAHA, and moral stigma in @nursingclio.bsky.social:
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🤩 the endorsements of our Trans Biblical volume from @susanstryker.bsky.social @austenhartke.bsky.social @wilgafney.bsky.social
@melissamwilcox.bsky.social
@drkenstone1.bsky.social @rhizomaticmoss.bsky.social
out soon with @wjkbooks.bsky.social !
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@melissamwilcox.bsky.social
@drkenstone1.bsky.social @rhizomaticmoss.bsky.social
out soon with @wjkbooks.bsky.social !
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Trans Biblical Paper - Joseph A. Marchal, Melissa Harl Sellew, Katy E. Valentine : Westminster John Knox Press
Trans Biblical Paper - Joseph A. Marchal, Melissa Harl Sellew, Katy E. Valentine : Westminster John Knox Press Trans Biblical provides some of the most exciting new scholarly work in trans biblical i...
www.wjkbooks.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🤩 the endorsements of our Trans Biblical volume from @susanstryker.bsky.social @austenhartke.bsky.social @wilgafney.bsky.social
@melissamwilcox.bsky.social
@drkenstone1.bsky.social @rhizomaticmoss.bsky.social
out soon with @wjkbooks.bsky.social !
www.wjkbooks.com/Products/066...
@melissamwilcox.bsky.social
@drkenstone1.bsky.social @rhizomaticmoss.bsky.social
out soon with @wjkbooks.bsky.social !
www.wjkbooks.com/Products/066...
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Open access vol on Hexapla !! www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/book/10....
The Forerunners and Heirs of Origen's Hexapla | V&R eLibrary
www.vr-elibrary.de
February 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Open access vol on Hexapla !! www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/book/10....
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The Biblical Wilderness and Liminality
The Biblical Wilderness and Liminality
The biblical wilderness is often spoken of as a liminal place/space. Here’s why: Robert L Cohn in his book The Shape of Sacred Space: Four Biblical Studies (Scholars Press, 1981) notes the wo…
sunestauromai.wordpress.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The Biblical Wilderness and Liminality
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3/5 @simchagross.bsky.social master class on magic bowls!
An overview of the bowl corpus + key avenues for future research, incl so-called pseudo-script bowls, issues of literacy & materiality, the performative dimensions ancientstudies.harvard.edu/events?trumb...
An overview of the bowl corpus + key avenues for future research, incl so-called pseudo-script bowls, issues of literacy & materiality, the performative dimensions ancientstudies.harvard.edu/events?trumb...
February 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
3/5 @simchagross.bsky.social master class on magic bowls!
An overview of the bowl corpus + key avenues for future research, incl so-called pseudo-script bowls, issues of literacy & materiality, the performative dimensions ancientstudies.harvard.edu/events?trumb...
An overview of the bowl corpus + key avenues for future research, incl so-called pseudo-script bowls, issues of literacy & materiality, the performative dimensions ancientstudies.harvard.edu/events?trumb...
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grateful to be among the collaborators in this timely teach-in event against transphobia on March 4, co-organized by Karri Whipple Alldredge @karrialldredge.bsky.social and Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social !!
please share, circulate, sign-up, and strategize!!
please share, circulate, sign-up, and strategize!!
February 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
grateful to be among the collaborators in this timely teach-in event against transphobia on March 4, co-organized by Karri Whipple Alldredge @karrialldredge.bsky.social and Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social !!
please share, circulate, sign-up, and strategize!!
please share, circulate, sign-up, and strategize!!
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Everyone should read and learn this. Memorize it and use it to help your traveling companions.
FWIW, I've successfully used "I won't say anything else without a lawyer present"--as a brown man with a Latine last name--at an internal checkpoint & they let me go almost immediately.
FWIW, I've successfully used "I won't say anything else without a lawyer present"--as a brown man with a Latine last name--at an internal checkpoint & they let me go almost immediately.
For years we have warned that the 100 mile “constitution free” border zone multiple administrations have claimed since 9/11 poses a profound threat to the essential civil liberties of two thirds of the US population who live in these areas. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...
www.aclu.org
December 1, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Everyone should read and learn this. Memorize it and use it to help your traveling companions.
FWIW, I've successfully used "I won't say anything else without a lawyer present"--as a brown man with a Latine last name--at an internal checkpoint & they let me go almost immediately.
FWIW, I've successfully used "I won't say anything else without a lawyer present"--as a brown man with a Latine last name--at an internal checkpoint & they let me go almost immediately.
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Career Advice | Measuring Impact, Beyond Publications
Kenneth N. McKay outlines a wide range of indicators you can use to measure the impact of your research beyond the standard measures. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40W1xeQ
Kenneth N. McKay outlines a wide range of indicators you can use to measure the impact of your research beyond the standard measures. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40W1xeQ
Different ways to measure research impact (opinion)
Kenneth N. McKay outlines a wide range of indicators you can use to measure the impact of your research beyond the standard measures.
bit.ly
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Career Advice | Measuring Impact, Beyond Publications
Kenneth N. McKay outlines a wide range of indicators you can use to measure the impact of your research beyond the standard measures. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40W1xeQ
Kenneth N. McKay outlines a wide range of indicators you can use to measure the impact of your research beyond the standard measures. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40W1xeQ
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NEW: Guest post from almost-Rabbi Ben Luks-Morgan:
"We who transition into new names, new identities we have always been here in Jewish being and text.
Transgender people have always been here. Queer people. Those who don’t quite fit the normative boundaries of Self-- have always been here."
"We who transition into new names, new identities we have always been here in Jewish being and text.
Transgender people have always been here. Queer people. Those who don’t quite fit the normative boundaries of Self-- have always been here."
We Have Always Been Here
A Guest Post By Erev-Rabbi Benjamin Luks-Morgan
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
NEW: Guest post from almost-Rabbi Ben Luks-Morgan:
"We who transition into new names, new identities we have always been here in Jewish being and text.
Transgender people have always been here. Queer people. Those who don’t quite fit the normative boundaries of Self-- have always been here."
"We who transition into new names, new identities we have always been here in Jewish being and text.
Transgender people have always been here. Queer people. Those who don’t quite fit the normative boundaries of Self-- have always been here."
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This looks fascinating: a neurological perspective on the "Seven Deadly Sins"
Book Review: The Neurological Roots of 'Sinful' Behavior
In “Seven Deadly Sins,” neurologist Guy Leschziner explores the science behind Dante’s greatest transgressions.
undark.org
February 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This looks fascinating: a neurological perspective on the "Seven Deadly Sins"
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Must read. We keep trying to tell you. #CriticalBible drchanequa.substack.com/p/black-wome...
Black Women Teach Us How to Divest from Inerrancy, Infallibility, and Patriarchal Leadership
A reading list for people who question dominant models of biblical interpretation and church leadership
drchanequa.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Must read. We keep trying to tell you. #CriticalBible drchanequa.substack.com/p/black-wome...
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American exceptionalism is when you post something about American histories of eugenics, racism, disability and asylums and people respond with Nazi comparisons. The Nazis actually studied and looked to American eugenics for inspiration and collaboration.
This is YOUR history.
Look it in the eye.
This is YOUR history.
Look it in the eye.
February 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
American exceptionalism is when you post something about American histories of eugenics, racism, disability and asylums and people respond with Nazi comparisons. The Nazis actually studied and looked to American eugenics for inspiration and collaboration.
This is YOUR history.
Look it in the eye.
This is YOUR history.
Look it in the eye.
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"The ways in which race and ethnicity are constructed in the Bible makes a difference for how contemporary readers engage the biblical text." Read Gay L. Byron's article. #BlackHistoryMonth buff.ly/3t6HRbo
How Are Race and Ethnicity Constructed in the New Testament? - Bible Odyssey
The ways in which race and ethnicity are constructed in the Bible makes a difference for how contemporary readers engage the biblical text.
buff.ly
February 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"The ways in which race and ethnicity are constructed in the Bible makes a difference for how contemporary readers engage the biblical text." Read Gay L. Byron's article. #BlackHistoryMonth buff.ly/3t6HRbo
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Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text
This new translation into English seeks to introduce the reader to the character of the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, while emphasising the fundamental differences between it and the Masoretic ...
www.openbookpublishers.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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TOMORROW! The Ghosts of Empire Symposium at Yale looks at the haunting and ghostly traces of empires—Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman, US-American, etc.—as they move in and across various geographical and temporal zones.
Conference schedule: macmillan.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
Conference schedule: macmillan.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
TOMORROW! The Ghosts of Empire Symposium at Yale looks at the haunting and ghostly traces of empires—Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman, US-American, etc.—as they move in and across various geographical and temporal zones.
Conference schedule: macmillan.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
Conference schedule: macmillan.yale.edu/sites/defaul...