How are y’all doing?

I think I’ve forgotten how to social media.
I just walk out on my front porch and look at the rain saying “we needed this” and then head back inside.

Trikafta, the cystic fibrosis medication that took my son from cirrhosis of the liver a non-functioning pancreas and scarred lungs to 100% healthy functioning of all three was approved in 2019

Table in the Wilderness | Zac Poppen | Substack A biblical scholar writing about complicated things. Click to read Table in the Wilderness, by Zac Poppen, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

Hi, everyone:

I created a Substack because why not.
It’s all free for now.
Currently doing a light series on the Ten Commandments as a supplement to my church’s sermon series.
I also have revived my idea of hauntotheology but now incorporating themes from my diss: zacpoppen.substack.com

Feel free to check it out. It’s all fairly light and conversational in order to appeal to a wide variety of readers.
More about provoking thought than trying to write actual articles at this point.

Hope y’all are doing well.

Table in the Wilderness | Zac Poppen | Substack A biblical scholar writing about complicated things. Click to read Table in the Wilderness, by Zac Poppen, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

Hi, everyone:

I created a Substack because why not.
It’s all free for now.
Currently doing a light series on the Ten Commandments as a supplement to my church’s sermon series.
I also have revived my idea of hauntotheology but now incorporating themes from my diss: zacpoppen.substack.com

I hate how fragile life is even with a decent salaried job.

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Hi, all - I hate asking for help online.
But I don’t have many other options.
We had nearly $4.5k worth of work on our cars and we have almost no money left. We paid rent and I get paid on Thursday but we have almost nothing until then.
Anything helps. Thanks, y’all.
www.paypal.me/zacpoppen

Mourning a Pope We Often Ignored Eulogies are easy. Living his call for justice is not.

Back at @sojo.net, suggesting a lot of folks who are taking the time to praise the pope now that he's gone refused to listen to him while he was alive.
sojo.net/articles/opi...

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The revisions are done! Gonna let them simmer today and wait for a couple colleagues to give them a glance before I submit it tomorrow.

for maybe the first time in my life, I don't feel much of the impostor syndrome I've had for so much of my life.

Now and forever known as #DocPop @zechareyah.bsky.social

I am now a doctor. Wow. I did it.
Wow wow wow wow wow wow.
Could not have done it without the guidance and support from my dissertation director, @wilgafney.bsky.social.

Only 1k people retweeted it tho? 😂😆 yikes. Didn’t do super well with that considering the amount of people who follow him on there.

Perhaps one of the biggest days of my life besides getting married and the births of my kids.

Defense is tomorrow morning at 10am CST.
Would appreciate any prayers, good vibes, and whispers to eldritch gods.

I never want to mess with a table of contents that size ever again though. Wow. MS Word is such a helpful/unhelpful thing.

Oral defense for dissertation is this coming Monday, y’all.
Gotta make some revisions and expand a bit before then.
I’ll take all the good vibes and whispers to eldritch gods you’ve got.

I can sleep on Tuesday 😅😅😅

A friend of mine sent me this a while back. I still look at it from time to time when I need encouragement or when I feel like I’m terrible at everything I do.
We are more than what we seem.

I have a complete draft of my dissertation.
Wow.
Wow wow wow wow.
Literally dragging myself over the finish line 😅

how taxes work in the United States

Between this and all the evangelical leaders yelling USAID affecting people like U.S. farmers, it really is the people crying about their face being eaten by leopards when they voted for the party of face-eating leopards. "But I didn't think it'd be ME" - a lot of people in the next 4 years.

People on TikTok having coffee with their past selves not even realizing they *are* having coffee with their past selves 👀

it's really cool that science is actually proving that eternity is a thing and it's way more complicated and scary and amazing than I ever thought possible 😂

Tried talking to someone about how quantum mechanics suggests that God is *in* time because God exists continuously at every point on every timeline. And we do, too - but we don't experience the iterations of us that are in the past or future.
The look they gave suggests they did not understand lol

I don't really know why I continue to prioritize people who do not prioritize me.
To quote from one of my favorite bands (Copeland): "choose the one who loves you more."

oh noooo 😩

I sneezed so hard while falling asleep that I slammed my head into my desk and yelled in pain and got in trouble for “disrupting class” 😅😬

Whoa hi hey there, I have hundreds of followers now 😂

I'm not dead. Not yet.
And I'm submitting my final chapter of my dissertation to my advisor tonight.
It's really almost the endgame, y'all.
Cannot believe it. What an absolute journey this has been.

Whoa hi hey there, I have hundreds of followers now 😂

I'm not dead. Not yet.
And I'm submitting my final chapter of my dissertation to my advisor tonight.
It's really almost the endgame, y'all.
Cannot believe it. What an absolute journey this has been.

Headline by Steve Hughes: UK is running out of ghosts, as old spirits dying off, experts say

Headline from the Daily Star: Paranormal experts say there may be a portal in an English forest letting in werewolves

*immediately cancels trip to England*

*immediately rebooks trip to England*