Victoria J Barnett
@vjbarnett.bsky.social
Renegade Bonhoeffer scholar. General editor, Bonhoeffer Works (English). I write about churches in Nazi Germany & the Holocaust. Here to discover new research, interesting books, poetry, music & occasionally the humor. www.victoriajbarnett.com
On my way to #aar #sbl Boston to weigh in tomorrow afternoon on #Bonhoeffer movies, why I think the hagiography has gotten way out of hand etc. etc. Looking forward to seeing some old friends!
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
On my way to #aar #sbl Boston to weigh in tomorrow afternoon on #Bonhoeffer movies, why I think the hagiography has gotten way out of hand etc. etc. Looking forward to seeing some old friends!
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Teaching post-doc position in UVa’s College, renewable for up to three years total. Apply!
Post-doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer - Engagements, College of Arts & Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Post-doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer - Engagements, College of Arts & Sciences job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at Un...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
These are good shovel-ready jobs, people. Come and join us. Do consider & share!
Great article by @angeladenker.bsky.social in today's @barnraiser.bsky.social: ‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump barnraisingmedia.com/disciples-of...
‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump
For her new book Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Broadleaf Books, 2025), Denker again traversed the country. This time she was investigating the radicalization of whi...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Great article by @angeladenker.bsky.social in today's @barnraiser.bsky.social: ‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump barnraisingmedia.com/disciples-of...
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My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Like the demon-possessed man in the gospels, Chatbot Jesus is not one but legion…” A conversation between Robert Jones and Chatbot Jesus. This is fascinating (& just as alarming as you’d expect).
Following a wave of coverage on AI and religion this week, I decided to have a chat with AI white Jesus about Trump, immigration, and his own self-presentation.
open.substack.com/pub/robertpj...
open.substack.com/pub/robertpj...
Conversations with Chatbot Jesus--What Could Go Wrong?
Plus the latest episode of The Convocation Unscripted
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“Like the demon-possessed man in the gospels, Chatbot Jesus is not one but legion…” A conversation between Robert Jones and Chatbot Jesus. This is fascinating (& just as alarming as you’d expect).
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My analysis: I'm glad the bishops spoke out about immigration but the only way to get "unity" on this issue was to be careful to still placate the Trump administration.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-stat...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-stat...
Bishops’ Statement on Immigration Falls Short
The USCCB released a statement in support of immigrants—but its failure to mention Trump and ICE undermines its welcome message.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My analysis: I'm glad the bishops spoke out about immigration but the only way to get "unity" on this issue was to be careful to still placate the Trump administration.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-stat...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-stat...
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Evening walk, fading light.
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Evening walk, fading light.
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Lucien Stryk
known for his translations from Japanese, he was also a wonderful poet
known for his translations from Japanese, he was also a wonderful poet
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Lucien Stryk
known for his translations from Japanese, he was also a wonderful poet
known for his translations from Japanese, he was also a wonderful poet
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A poem about a cat. The child who wrote it deserves an A+++
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A poem about a cat. The child who wrote it deserves an A+++
For today: "September, 1918" by Amy Lowell:
"....For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42990/...
"....For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42990/...
September, 1918
This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight; The trees glittered with the tumbling of leaves; The sidewalks shone like alleys of dropped maple leaves, And the houses ran along them...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For today: "September, 1918" by Amy Lowell:
"....For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42990/...
"....For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42990/...
👇As is so often the case, historically remarkable women get left out of the story. Which distorts the story.
No women ever commented on, or took part in, Nuremberg then? No women ever discussed or thought about the problem of Nazi evil and its banality? No Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, no Janet Flanner, no Hannah Arendt? Just an all-boys affair for an all boys evil.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe’s Göring v Rami Malek’s psychiatrist in swish yet glib courtroom showdown
Crowe and Malek are hugely watchable but this ultimately fails to deliver an authentic version of events
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
👇As is so often the case, historically remarkable women get left out of the story. Which distorts the story.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I’m sharing this video from around 2015 from the US Embassy, The Hague youtube channel. If current attempts to erase the historic record of black American GIs in the anti-DEI climate of the Trump administration, it may not be available much longer. youtu.be/QE0QszXRg3k?...
Alabama to Margraten
YouTube video by U.S. Embassy The Hague
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I’m sharing this video from around 2015 from the US Embassy, The Hague youtube channel. If current attempts to erase the historic record of black American GIs in the anti-DEI climate of the Trump administration, it may not be available much longer. youtu.be/QE0QszXRg3k?...
“Stumbling stones”: Attended a wonderful ceremony today to honor Isaac Jones and Sarah Gardner, two people enslaved in Arlington, Virginia.
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“Stumbling stones”: Attended a wonderful ceremony today to honor Isaac Jones and Sarah Gardner, two people enslaved in Arlington, Virginia.
Eager to read this!
Thrilled to announce publication of my Ben Ferencz biography, 𝘕𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘨'𝘴 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳 - - you can pick up a copy here: www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10088/ -- former Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow calls it "part novel, part psychological study and part handbook on effective lawyering"
Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor
<p><b>The remarkable life of one of the twentieth century’s great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Crimina
www.upress.virginia.edu
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Eager to read this!
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'A generation unkind to their parents, and their children, pure in their own eyes, cruel hearted, whose teeth were as knives to shred the poor of the earth, shred them small. Where a general corruption that way, no good to be hoped for; the country will not last long.' (Lancelot Andrewes, 1617)
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
'A generation unkind to their parents, and their children, pure in their own eyes, cruel hearted, whose teeth were as knives to shred the poor of the earth, shred them small. Where a general corruption that way, no good to be hoped for; the country will not last long.' (Lancelot Andrewes, 1617)
Wassily Kandinsky, “Yellow Circle” (1910)
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Wassily Kandinsky, “Yellow Circle” (1910)
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This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
Since we're talking about historical amnesia today, seems like a good time to re-post this: my essay re looking for historical precedents in Nazi Germany instead of the numerous examples of Xn nationalism etc. in US history. (I posted the day before #NoKings when we were all busy with other things😉)
New issue (w/a contribution by me) about religious history, historical analogies, antisemitism, #ChristianNationalism, #Bonhoeffer, Niemoeller's quote, etc. etc. with a special nod to @mnemonic.bsky.social & Godwin's law (I think there's a Bonhoeffer parallel there...)
contemporarychurchhistory.org
contemporarychurchhistory.org
Contemporary Church History Quarterly | News, reviews, & commentary on contemporary religious history with a focus on Germany & Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
contemporarychurchhistory.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Since we're talking about historical amnesia today, seems like a good time to re-post this: my essay re looking for historical precedents in Nazi Germany instead of the numerous examples of Xn nationalism etc. in US history. (I posted the day before #NoKings when we were all busy with other things😉)
Ok, that made me chuckle.
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ok, that made me chuckle.
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Okay this is…shocking?
"Doctored" is a way nicer word than any editor would use if they found out someone took quotes from completely different documents, chopped them up, and stitched them together as one quote that omits *directly contradictory context.* www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
"Doctored" is a way nicer word than any editor would use if they found out someone took quotes from completely different documents, chopped them up, and stitched them together as one quote that omits *directly contradictory context.* www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
The secret history of how Jefferson’s words were doctored inside his memorial
Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding Father’s words to present him as an abolitionist without mentioning he had ensla...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Okay this is…shocking?
"Doctored" is a way nicer word than any editor would use if they found out someone took quotes from completely different documents, chopped them up, and stitched them together as one quote that omits *directly contradictory context.* www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
"Doctored" is a way nicer word than any editor would use if they found out someone took quotes from completely different documents, chopped them up, and stitched them together as one quote that omits *directly contradictory context.* www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Normal parties don't have an anti-Hitler wing. Being anti-Hitler is a default, assumed position in healthy spaces. Graham, you're so close, once again, to getting it.
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Normal parties don't have an anti-Hitler wing. Being anti-Hitler is a default, assumed position in healthy spaces. Graham, you're so close, once again, to getting it.