heated rivalry

vacation mode activated

Like… just so we’re all clear, this entire state-sponsored, civic-dignitary-studded oratorio is really just “Heilsgeschichte: The Musical,” yeah?

Kind of wild to see the entire theatre roused by Handel to stand in acclamation of the King of Kings…

… in Bill 9 Quebec.

first semester ✅

The Vancouver School of Theology Receives Major Grant from Lilly Endowment to Establish the Reimagining Theological Education Project - Vancouver School of Theology Download FULL Media Release (PDF) December 5th, 2025 The Vancouver School of Theology has received a grant of $9,923,200 USD from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish Reimagining Theological Educati...

Beyond jazzed to take part in this work with our sibling schools across Canada.

vst.edu/the-vancouve...

brb self-immolating

Upon further reflection, I seem to have misunderstood the nature of this event. As you were, @jeremybergen.bsky.social.

It’s about time he apologized. 👊

Support our troops. 🫡

It’s a nice day for a white welding.

Incredible job opportunity at VST: vst.edu/about/job-op...

I am relevant, you see.

*quoting Chappell Roan lyrics during a lecture on responses to liberationist theologies in the 70s*

Students:

Presidential Message on the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel Today, I salute the millions of Christian believers in the United States and around the world observing the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel.

Fun question: where the fuck in Scripture is this text talking about www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

I’m less interested in versions that censor foul language and far more interested in versions that edit out whistles and sirens so that I’m not caught off guard and slam on the brakes while driving.

Is there a topic you would like me to over-earnestly and sanctimoniously pontificate on? Respond in the chats!

At whomst are we angry today?

I've been away so long I've forgotten how to social media.

On Wednesdays, we put on Christ in faith.

I’m wearing head to toe Lululemon—a rapture seems pretty “Chip Wilson,” after all.

When someone on the Internet tells me that Western tradition is dying, I (1) look up academic presses to see how many books on Augustine are being published this year, (2) go outside and throw a rock and see if it hits something Western tradition made. “Hm,” I think, wondering what death is again.

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tfw none of those words were for your lecture tomorrow

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tfw you punch out 2000 decent dissertation words in one sitting

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

I may have made a point of wearing a clerical collar…

Some might even say un-good.

Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public | CBC News The Quebec government intends to present a bill banning prayer in public. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge said Thursday that the “proliferation of street prayer is a serious and sensitive is...

Well, I’ll say this: it’s an interesting time to begin teaching at a theological school in this province.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Do any of you use Appoinlet or the like to schedule appointments with those who'd like to meet with you? Preferred tool? Experiences?

"Barth denkt neutestamentlich." (H. Stickelberger)

May it be said of us all.