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Niamh
@niamhatheologian.bsky.social
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Irish, a Catholic convert, pro-life, leftie, disabled (ME & autistic) & a theologian in training (PhD student).

Seeking the true, the good and the beautiful.
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Nothing in the Irish news is making me think about this....
An icon of St John Chrysostom with the quote "The rich are in possession of the goods of the poor, even if they acquired them honestly or inherited them legally."
September 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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The pain of this book arriving today when I can only hope to flick through it for the next month or so rather than properly start it.
The book Joining Creation's Praise by Brian Brock on mustardy brown fabric with birds and branches with leaves and flowers which are black and white. For looking at the alt you can know that this is fabric for post PhD shenanigans that also arrived today and despite being 8 metres arrived in a box smaller than the book
September 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Look I have a streak of over 800 days as I try to regain a language I used to be more proficient in, but the reality is while some of it is being too busy, I have been frustrated that I cannot seem to get to the next level and that is because I need a resource or a teacher to help me get past the
Simpsons meme with two pictures. In the first Principal Seymour is pondering, stroking his chin and the words are "A streak of over 800 and a completed course on Duolingo but unable to talk [to] other people... Are they right that apps are not enough to teach someone a language by themselves?" The second picture has Seymour have a realisation and the words "No, all you need is AI! Teaching is just to see that the children are alive!"
May 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Jane Eyre was number one 🩷
Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Will dressed as a wizard from Stranger Things Beth with flowers in her hair and arranging wild flowers in a bouquet from Greta Gerwig's Little Women Jane Eyre
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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A tweet by Robert Prevost saying "It's time to end the death penalty." from March 5th 2015
May 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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(credit to my friend who replied to a screenshot of the post with this)
Toby McGuire as Peter Parker delivering pizzas. With the words Pizzaballa time!
April 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Theopolitical Imagination by William Cavanaugh
An extract from William Cavanaugh's Theopolitical Imagination. It says: Politics is a practice of the imagination. Sometimes politics is the 'art of the possible,' but it is always an art, and engages the imagination just as art does. We are often fooled by the seeming solidity of the materials are marshalled by acts by acts of imagination. How does a provincial farm boy become persuaded that he must travel as a soldier to another part of the world and kill people he knows nothing about? He must be convinced of the reality of borders, and imagine himself deeply, mystically, united to a wider national community that stops abruptly at those borders. The nation-state is, as Benedict Anderson has shown, one important and historically contingent type of 'imagined community' around which our conceptions of politics tend to gather.
February 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Trying to complete this section of the chapter and my brain just keeps being Hamilton, whereas the word count is Burr
December 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM