OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

New career aims ;-)

We also welcome international applications in English for this position as Professor for New Testament Sudies in Zurich: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics directly defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent, dismissing the resulting excommunications by declaring it was a “sacred duty” to defend the Catholic faith.

I have to watch YouTube...

Live Pius X mass, which may lead to their excommunication www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKn...

OH SHIT IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE LIVE www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKn...

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This story is not getting nearly the attention it deserves. The WaPo story by Jon Swaine (gift link: wapo.st/4viLSnW) is ironclad and profoundly disturbing. @jonswaine.bsky.social

Now published!

Wissenschaftliche Oberassistenz-Stelle #infocliojob #job #history

Roman shrine dedicated to Minerva discovered in ancient quarry www.heritagedaily.com/2026/06/roma...

This week’s astonishing artifact is a Byzantine oil lamp shaped like an extremely realistic foot. 🧪🏺

Since 2021, I have researched religious objects in houses, taught about them, and created exhibitions about these objects. This month, our special issue came out in the journal Material Religion. What is it about? www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfmr20/2...

It has to be about Manichaeans... has to be...

But even in the dark days of the early Cold War, some people refused to go along, or even protested the exercises. According to a 1997 scholarly article, a poll taken in Cleveland just days before the 1957 drill found less than one percent of the residents of Cuyahoga County planned to participate.

This AI-generated image is making the rounds and normally I wouldn't even bother with something like this However, it gives us the chance to talk about a fascinating sub-group of White Nationalism that believes a race of pure Aryans called Argathans live in the center of the Earth 🧵

Das Weiße Haus "enthüllt" vermeintlich geheime Akten über Außerirdische. Tatsächlich geht es um Migrant:innen, die entmenschlicht werden. Nächste Stufe der faschistischen Propaganda – inkl. Aufruf zur Denunziation. Wir haben das in der FAZ diskutiert: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui... @faznet.bsky.social

Important: Swiss voters defeated initiative to limit Switzerland's population to below 10 million. 54% voted against. The initiative had proposed the limitation of asylum, family reunification and - ultimately - the end of free movement of persons bw. 🇨🇭 and the 🇪🇺. www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

So, we just published our special issue on "bringing religion home," about religious objects at home, and now my mailbox is being flooded with predatory journals and other spam... is this a sign? www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfmr20/2...

A palimpsest containing an excerpt from Matthew’s Gospel overwritten with magical drawings. (Mich.Pap.918)

I bought so many books... But it made me think about the number of American books I have. Aren't there sales at the European publishers as well?

I have been giving talks on my book for over a year now and the one thing that is guaranteed to get an audience reaction is the Berenike Buddha in Egypt. People seem amazed it exists and then what it tells us about the ancient world. So I wrote the whole thing up as a Bad Ancient article:

Did anyone of you ever assign a student project about religion and secrecy-based practices?

Soon in Basel! www.kbhg.ch/de/1641d/Aus...

Let me translate: «Without thinking about the consequences, and based on the exploitation of labor and resources on a planetary scale, we rolled out a faulty technology that completely disrupts all sectors of society – and now you have to deal with it while we figure out a way to make money.»

“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. “It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,” So said.”

Come work with us in Switzerland!

Good morning, Bluesky! PhD studentships (Old Testament, New Testament) at Marburg University: “Staging Religious Atmosphere in Ancient Cultures” stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/e...

Please present your pedagogical vision...

Looking forward to this one!

Nur noch heute online:

Did anyone of you ever assign a student project about religion and secrecy-based practices?

I just thought: Timothy Snyder‘s first „rule“ of how to fight authoritarianism and fascism was „Do not obey in advance“. We should be aware of this and act accordingly when the TechBros try to hammer us with their narrative of „inevitability“. Their total regime is not inevitable.

Did one of you ever do a write up of the entire conversations about religious scholar practitioners in relation to debates in indigenous studies?

On the tube

A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. While he was there he found a knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.

They are currently uploading the first online versions of our special issue on "domestication" // domestic religion www.tandfonline.com/loi/rfmr20 More is coming!

We are looking for a volunteer and board member! Help us to help a school in Kenia.... www.benevol-jobs.ch/en/volunteer...

@yalepress.bsky.social is your payment site at Wiley Europe down?

It may be no coincidence that many of the images produced by Midjourney in its default mode have a striking affinity with the aesthetics of »Socialist Realism« - after all, they too are not depictions of real-world events, but »incarnations« of abstract concepts, as formulated in prompts 7/9

Inmiddels ruim 100 keer geshared en zo'n 300 keer geliked 🤷🏼‍♂️😂

I'm still not used to the Swiss customs of who's allowed to offer the "du" and first name...

“Beschaving meet je niet af aan hoeveel mensen je buiten houdt, maar aan hoe je omgaat met wie bescherming nodig heeft en of je bereid bent die ook daadwerkelijk te bieden” @nadiabouras.bsky.social

Zo kan het ook💕 #wijzijnmetmeer❤️