The New Illuminators: Women, Bible Journaling and the Interpretation of Scripture. An academic symposium exploring women's agency taking place on 27th March, All Hallows Campus, DCU.
Fab Speakers: Beth Allison Barr; Katja Rakow; Lieke Wijnia; myself & Helena Connolly. Places limited, RSVP myself.
Do you remember those: “If these were the 4 Gospels…” memes on X…?! 😄 Myself and my 3 colleagues in DCU at the Irish Biblical Association conference last weekend!
🕊️"Peacemaking in the Bible" is the theme of the Irish Biblical Association annual conference hosted by the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at TCD this year. It is also our 60th Anniversary and we have a great line-up of speakers and papers! Booking will open shortly on Eventbrite.
The Bible and Visual Culture unit is receiving proposals now for the 2026 SOCIETY of BIBLICAL LITERATURE International Meeting taking place from 5–9 July, in Adelaide, Australia (Uni of Adelaide). Papers on visual interps of biblical texts welcome. See: www.sbl-site.org/meetings/int...
This excellent free exhibition Words on the Wave
@nmireland.bsky.social
is extended until Mon 27 Oct! Truly beautiful manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland - home to early Irish monks. Some of these are in Ireland for the first time in 1000 yrs alongside other fab artefacts. Go!
🌍 The Pontifical Biblical Institute of PUG, together with NExUS, is hosting an international conference on “Bible and Ecology” (6–8 Nov 2025).
#BibleAndEcology #Jubilee2025 #LaudatoSi #FrancisOfAssisi #PontificalBiblicalInstitute
The *Irish Biblical Association’s* Belfast Meeting hosted by Union Theological College featured stimulating papers from PhDs: Helena Connolly, Ivan Petrovski, Maicol Cortés. Dr Andrew Doole (Innsbruck) & Dr Claire Carroll (TCD) enlightened us with their latest research! A treat for all!
🧵(1) The manuscripts housed at the Sheptytsky National Museum in L’viv primarily originate from Western Ukraine—a historical crossroads where Slavic cultures (Ukrainian, Polish, and Ruthenian) intersected with diverse religious traditions, including Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Greek Catholicism.
It was a joy to connect with Prof. Núria Calduch Benages, Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and great scholar of the OT, in Ireland this w/end. She shared with us a wonderful overview of the work of the PBC & PBI.📖#Bible
@nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social
The Mainie Jellet and Evie Hone: The Art of Friendship exhibition @NGI is superb! Be sure to catch it before is gone - so many delightful pieces and an extraordinary friendship in art and life displayed so well! A gem of an exhibition of Irish women artists!🧑🎨🎨🖼️🧑🎨
"Unfortunately, scholars and institutions dedicated to researching and commemorating the Holocaust have generally, with few very courageous exceptions, have generally refused to say anything, to express themselves in any way, about what is happening in Gaza."
With the closure of churches in some areas, I have often wondered about this, that they were payed for by the local people and the local faith community has some entitlement to ownership of these spaces - beyond the spiritual- as they helped fund the building in the first place.
Screenshot of an email from Academia.edu announcing that the platform fed my article”Do Kentucky Kami Drink Bourbon? Exploring Parallel Glocalization in Global Shinto Offerings” to an AI and generated a <5 minute “podcast” based on the content
Don’t want it, didn’t approve or ask for it, misconstrues my thesis, says my name wrong, makes weird jokes about sushi pizza and my area of expertise in a British man’s voice. Sooo do I delete my account now? What is it even good for anymore #AcademicSky
On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number. Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.
The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
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As always, it was great to present at this yrs @sblsite.bsky.social AND @eabs.bsky.social conf. in Uppsala 🇸🇪 My paper: “A Multimodal Analysis of Bible Journalings Illustrating Eph 6:10–22”. Grateful for lively conversations on visual engagement with biblical texts all week! So many great papers!
I wouldn’t miss it! 😊
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Wonderful!
#PopeFrancis was a wise and visionary leader in many respects, not least his constant criticism of the systemic structures that create poverty and impoverish the lives of so many. A true pastor of the people, always upholding the poor and those discarded by the mainstream. RIP
Excellent! #BlueRoad documentary by #SineadOShea about #EdnaO’Brien! Very powerful and will stay with me for a long time! See it if you can!
A great opportunity to hear NT scholar Dale Allison tomorrow evening @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social . Details below👇📖👨🏫
Honoured to be elected President of the Irish Biblical Association. One of Ireland’s longest-standing scholarly associations, approaching its 60th anni, the IBA brings together academics who engage professionally with the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. www.irish-biblical-association.com
my latest in @commonwealmagazine on Trump and the universities
Purim is this week! Here is a thread of things!
Let's talk about archetypes:
Vashti and Esther.
Lilith and Eve.
Whose agendas do these narratives serve, and how can we claim power from all of them???
Scholarships are available for the MA in Theology and World Religions here at DCU. Please contact the Programme Chair, Dr Brad Anderson, for more information.
To learn more about the MA in Theology and World Religions, click here: www.dcu.ie/DC693
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Wonderful concert this evening at DCU All Hallows campus chapel as part of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance conference with gorgeous music from Ireland, Ghana, Peru, and India. ❤️
The Irish Biblical Association held their annual conference
@stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social on the subject of "Language, Lectionary and Liturgy: Translating the Bible"—with rich contributions from Wil Gafney, John Barton, and Kieran O'Mahony. #bible #lectionary #bibletranslation #biblicalstudies
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.