Daniel Bowdoin PhD DrTheolHabil
@danbowdoin.bsky.social
Peacebuilder, eccentric skill set, collector of mingei ceramics, Province de l'Eglise anglicane du Congo, special interest in sub-Saharan Africa. Goma-Dar es Salaam-Chapel Hill
Out in the streets here most of the day, but still time to remind you that today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. So remember.
January 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Out in the streets here most of the day, but still time to remind you that today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. So remember.
The somewhat earlier (1979) Rolling Stone interview is also well worth finding and reading.
January 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The somewhat earlier (1979) Rolling Stone interview is also well worth finding and reading.
Usually make these for Christmas, but just didn’t have time this year. So I’ve done 6 tins for the New Year. Everybody from the Archbishop on down has let it be known that they’re expected (if I know what’s good for me). Only soaked in bourbon for four days, but that should do.
December 30, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Usually make these for Christmas, but just didn’t have time this year. So I’ve done 6 tins for the New Year. Everybody from the Archbishop on down has let it be known that they’re expected (if I know what’s good for me). Only soaked in bourbon for four days, but that should do.
Adrenaline high kept me awake after I got home last night, so to pass the time I went ahead and made the apple pie I was going to do later today. Early start on my own Feast of St Stephen. If you stop by you’re welcome to a slice.🍎🥧🍏
December 26, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Adrenaline high kept me awake after I got home last night, so to pass the time I went ahead and made the apple pie I was going to do later today. Early start on my own Feast of St Stephen. If you stop by you’re welcome to a slice.🍎🥧🍏
Fifty or so Christmas Eves ago I pulled this book out of my little (at the time) personal library and reread it from beginning to end. It was a whimsical thing and just for that one evening. But I’ve managed to do it every Christmas Eve since then so I guess it’s a thing now.
December 24, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Fifty or so Christmas Eves ago I pulled this book out of my little (at the time) personal library and reread it from beginning to end. It was a whimsical thing and just for that one evening. But I’ve managed to do it every Christmas Eve since then so I guess it’s a thing now.
May mothers everywhere enjoy a fine Mother’s Day weekend.
May 9, 2024 at 1:36 PM
May mothers everywhere enjoy a fine Mother’s Day weekend.
Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Søren!!!🍾🍾🌟🌟🎉🎉
May 5, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Søren!!!🍾🍾🌟🌟🎉🎉
‘How mighty is the unbroken world of the It, and how fragile are the appearances of the Thou.’
Martin Buber, „Ich und Du” - 1923
Martin Buber, „Ich und Du” - 1923
March 24, 2024 at 1:50 PM
‘How mighty is the unbroken world of the It, and how fragile are the appearances of the Thou.’
Martin Buber, „Ich und Du” - 1923
Martin Buber, „Ich und Du” - 1923
A bit more on this. In a more recent email message from the Harvard Corporation responding to President Gay’s resignation
January 2, 2024 at 7:39 PM
A bit more on this. In a more recent email message from the Harvard Corporation responding to President Gay’s resignation
This in an email received an hour or so ago. In my heart of hearts I knew this was inevitably coming, but I still hoped that the professional allegations against President Gay would prove to be unjustified. I’m so sorry, both for her and for the university, that they did not.
January 2, 2024 at 7:27 PM
This in an email received an hour or so ago. In my heart of hearts I knew this was inevitably coming, but I still hoped that the professional allegations against President Gay would prove to be unjustified. I’m so sorry, both for her and for the university, that they did not.
In honor of this day.
December 29, 2023 at 6:31 PM
In honor of this day.
‘Howard Moody says the church is an instrument of God literally to be used up in his service, a service to those not even within it. There is little evidence at this point in God’s economy that the church is about to go out of business through such usefulness.’
—Will Campbell
—Will Campbell
December 17, 2023 at 6:05 PM
‘Howard Moody says the church is an instrument of God literally to be used up in his service, a service to those not even within it. There is little evidence at this point in God’s economy that the church is about to go out of business through such usefulness.’
—Will Campbell
—Will Campbell
Today marks the death in 1909 of Leopold II of Belgium, rapist of the Congo. There is virtually nothing wrong or wrongheaded about political and social life in the modern Congo—both Kinshasa and Brazzaville—that can’t in one way or another be traced directly back to Leopold.
December 17, 2023 at 12:10 PM
Today marks the death in 1909 of Leopold II of Belgium, rapist of the Congo. There is virtually nothing wrong or wrongheaded about political and social life in the modern Congo—both Kinshasa and Brazzaville—that can’t in one way or another be traced directly back to Leopold.
A colleague who’s constantly teasing me about the desk in my study just got back from a trip to London and brought me this early Christmas present. If you were to see my desk you’d immediately understand the little needle he’s poking at me here.😉
December 14, 2023 at 7:01 PM
A colleague who’s constantly teasing me about the desk in my study just got back from a trip to London and brought me this early Christmas present. If you were to see my desk you’d immediately understand the little needle he’s poking at me here.😉
The essays in this new book are really useful. I met Bayard Rustin just once, when I was 14, and only for three minutes or so. But in those three minutes he introduced me to Will Campbell and that changed the trajectory of my life. I’ll always be grateful to Rustin for that.
December 12, 2023 at 8:22 PM
The essays in this new book are really useful. I met Bayard Rustin just once, when I was 14, and only for three minutes or so. But in those three minutes he introduced me to Will Campbell and that changed the trajectory of my life. I’ll always be grateful to Rustin for that.
Just this moment remembered that yesterday was the 129th birthday of the great Hamada Shoji.
December 10, 2023 at 5:16 PM
Just this moment remembered that yesterday was the 129th birthday of the great Hamada Shoji.
‘At the abyss of German history and beneath the burden of the murdered millions, I did what people do when language fails them.’—Willy Brandt falls to his knees at the Ghetto Monument, Warsaw, 7 Dec 1970.
I had almost forgotten about Brandt and his powerful gesture of penance and reconciliation.
I had almost forgotten about Brandt and his powerful gesture of penance and reconciliation.
December 8, 2023 at 1:59 PM
‘At the abyss of German history and beneath the burden of the murdered millions, I did what people do when language fails them.’—Willy Brandt falls to his knees at the Ghetto Monument, Warsaw, 7 Dec 1970.
I had almost forgotten about Brandt and his powerful gesture of penance and reconciliation.
I had almost forgotten about Brandt and his powerful gesture of penance and reconciliation.
‘People who can be happy in their own particular faith only if it is binding for the millennia to come know nothing of the intrinsic freedom and greatness of faith.’
—Ernst Troeltsch, 1911
—Ernst Troeltsch, 1911
December 5, 2023 at 10:09 PM
‘People who can be happy in their own particular faith only if it is binding for the millennia to come know nothing of the intrinsic freedom and greatness of faith.’
—Ernst Troeltsch, 1911
—Ernst Troeltsch, 1911
The very best collect.
December 3, 2023 at 5:15 PM
The very best collect.
<<Gott ist>> heißt <<Gott liebt>>.
Karl Barth, KD II/1, 318
Karl Barth, KD II/1, 318
December 1, 2023 at 8:48 PM
<<Gott ist>> heißt <<Gott liebt>>.
Karl Barth, KD II/1, 318
Karl Barth, KD II/1, 318
