This is the worse case of déjà vu ever. Complete with all the talking heads going "You know, I think this is actually going to make America safer!" For pete's sake, READ A HISTORY BOOK or watch a documentary whatever just...can we not do this AGAIN?!

Circulating this growing list of women NT/EC scholars again if any one else wants to add their name! Please share if you can! tinyurl.com/WomenNTECsch...

There are still some seats in my #Theology as Dialogue in Early Christianity class in July at Regent College in Vancouver. It's for credit or audit, in-person or online. We're going to read a bunch of weird and fun and delightful texts together. Join me! www.regent-college.edu/summer/cours...

Y'all, @caromein.bsky.social came through and was able to provide a transcription for these. This work + Gemini gave me a good idea of what these texts are! Further confirmation and study needed but: A late 14th-century scholastic commentary A early 15th-century Gradual or Antiphonary for Pentecost

Hey #medievalsky manuscript friends! Found in our archives. One is a Psalter from 1425 (maybe?). The other? No idea. Can anyone help identify what this Latin fragment from the late 1300s (supposedly) is? This is definitely not my wheelhouse. Any further info on either is welcome.

These T Swift lyrics have been in my head since Jan 20: The whole school is rolling fake dice. You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes ... American stories burning before me I'm feeling helpless, the damsels are depressed Boys will be boys then, where are the wise men? Darling, I'm scared.

Humans made in the image of God are being starved and slaughtered in Gaza. Grief and rage at this atrocity does not diminish the horror of October 7th. One atrocity does not condone another. There is no justification for killing civilians, let alone children and the wounded. Absolutely none.

What theologians here find themselves doing historical #theology work in the 1500ish-now space? Obviously that's a large span of time and everyone has a focus (mine is early Christianity) but I'd love to meet some new friends who work in that space. Introduce yourselves! What do you work on?

Just wrapped up listening to a fabulous plenary from an Argentinian scholar on Origen’s Commentary on John at #NAPS2025. International faculty and students in the US are blessings. They honor us with their presence and their work. Treating them with violence is abhorrent.

Hey #NAPS2025! Can’t wait to see y’all. I’m presenting on Gregory of Nyssa in the first paper of the first session (the equivalent of winning the lottery at a conference, I think). Bonus: I’m coming from Boston’s North Shore and skipping an impending rare May nor’easter to hang out with y’all 😁

Hey all, the FDA has a comment section open for the next three days! Tell them what you think of their ridiculous and harmful decision to not approve the Covid-19 vaccine yearly for the majority of people. The vaccine is safe, effective, and should be widely available. regulations.gov/comme…

Our government wants us uneducated, scared to speak out, and also, apparently, sick. This timeline continues to be the absolute WORST. apnews.com/article/vacc...

I'm teaching a new course on Theology as Dialogue in Early Christianity at Regent College in Vancouver this summer. It's for credit or audit, in-person or online. We're going to read a bunch of weird and fun and delightful texts together. Join me! www.regent-college.edu/summer/cours...

Hey Late Antiquity and early Christianity peeps! Who's going to NAPS this week? I've not been in a bit and can't wait to catch up with y'all and meet new friends.

It’s the kind of day where I needed whatever this lemon lavender brioche thing is and I’m alternating between iced and hot coffee 😂 Oh, and that brand new book by Greg Lee on the City of God you see there? Yeah, it’s PHENOMENAL. Gonna chat with him this afternoon for a new episode of OnScript!

What Jesus said. Women are made in the image of God. Therefore, women have full agency and deserve protection from violence of any kind, regardless of what they wear or do or say or who they're in a relationship with.

I have a lot of grading to do, a conference paper to write, and a book to work on so of course I made cinnamon rhubarb muffins.

I was obsessing about this cute gull fam on the roof and saw it live! Habemus papam!!!

Sure, let's go all in on AI doing all the things. Because obviously this is the kind of "ruler" Paul meant. 🤪 🤣

Super niche ask on numismatics: We have a Helena Augusta coin in our archives that's been identified as a medieval forgery. I know what I'm looking at with coins struck in late antiquity but I'm interested in the why and how of a forgery. Numismatics peeps: I'd love to get your thoughts on it!

Love me a good story with great characters, especially ones that inspire us to directly challenge exploitative power and oppression. May the Fourth be with you, fellow rebel scum.

Look this crumb, y’all 🤩 And it’s the most delicious sandwich bread so far. Shout out to Sally’s Baking for this perfect recipe. I used old fashioned oats for this loaf.

Behold! I hath made multigrain bread.! 🍞 Steam in the oven made sure it didn’t rip on the side and I’m crying because it’s so pretty. The tears might also be because every day is a new horror and also because it’s the end of the semester. Complex tears. But also LOOK AT MY BREAD.

Annoyed writer rant: Why does MS Word default to one kind of spacing between paragraphs and another within the paragraph? UGH. DON'T ADD SPACE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS OF THE SAME STYLE!!! How many times I gotta click that box since apparently hitting the "set as default" button doesn't matter?! /rant

Reading a recent book and came across a point I made in my more technical work on Gregory of Nyssa and Christology. Looked at the footnote and saw my article cited. You wonder sometimes if people ever read the really specific academic stuff. Turns out, sometimes they do! Warms the heart it does 😊

Reuters was refused entry so they flew a drone over a detention facility in Texas. Jesus only has words of judgment for those who don't welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, and care for the prisoner. But sure, sing more "worship" songs in the WH. That'll help. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

It’s that time in the semester where my desk collects mugs and my floor collects piles.

Been nervous about some writing projects (a conference paper, a short book). I've done most of the research for both. I realized I'd hit that moment when researching became a delay tactic so I just started to WRITE. 1100 words so far. When will I learn to just start writing?!

When I read early Christian texts, I colloquially summarize. Here's Gregory of Nyssa and his sister Macrina in De anima et res 4.1-5. They're fun because they get snarky: Greg: What and where is Hades? 1/4

Flowcharts don't tend to make me emotional but this one... Rage, frustration, sadness, embarrassment

From the official White House account. There's no bottom to this administration's disdain for the law and for human rights. Dehumanizing an already vulnerable person and then mocking someone visiting that prisoner during Holy Week is...a choice. To be clear - it's a vile and anti-Christ choice.

Never again is now. God help us.

"Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?” - Augustine, City of God 4.4 The absolute disregard for due process. Christ have mercy. The speed at which we've abandoned all pretense of a discernible set of American ideals is stunning.

Check out my fabulous colleague Jeff García's work featured on @christianitytoday.com this morning. It's 8am and we're all chatting in our offices about execution methods in the early Roman Empire, you know, like you do. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/04/was-...

"This is the time to stare at despair and say, 'You will not have the last word!'" - Senator Booker SAY IT. AMEN.

Almost missed posting for #WomensHistoryMonth! I wrote (with Lynn Cohick) Christian Women in the Patristic World. The thesis: women contributed substantially to the development of theology and practice in early Christianity. Buy at your fave bookshop! www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/christ...

Using humans in cages as props or trophies (regardless of who they are or what they've done) is vile. Christians: This is anti-Christ. Full stop. There is no defense or rationalization.

This is a deeply unserious and dangerously incompetent administration. And yet they mock, endanger, and carelessly fire civil servants with expertise and experience.

If you don’t have a mini jar of this perfect coconut peanut butter to bring to work or wherever…. 15/10 recommend *yes, I’m reading one of my fave early Christian texts, the Life of Macrina, and it’s even better paired with a banana and this peanut butter.

Happy St Patrick’s Day! ☘️ It’s a good day to celebrate a guy who called out abusive and tyrannical leaders, worked to abolish slavery and the slave trade (having been enslaved himself), advocated for the poor, and rid an entire island of snakes (it’s a legend but let’s go with it).

Happy Pi Day!!!! Let's all celebrate by eating pie and resisting the fascist destruction of education in the US that promotes the common good! Otherwise no one will know pi is. Or what fascism is. Or the common good.

From St Patrick’s Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus. Patrick offers no quarter for greedy Christians who are “blood-stained” with the innocent (the enslaved Irish). Unjust riches turn to vomit and the angel of death will drag away the greedy to be “crushed by the anger of dragons.” ☘️ 🔥

It's okay if it's hard for you to revisit March or any month in 2020. I touch those memories carefully: the constant barrage of terrible news, the weaponized incompetence of our leaders, my students suffering loss, the isolation, the exhaustion of trying to parent. Be kind to yourself, friends.

Shout out to those who facilitate Interlibrary loans in academic libraries. I request a book and it shows up on a shelf from some far-flung place. What magic! Y'all are the best. Really, you are.

I think I need this shirt.

basic training 🤝 toddler parent trying to get their kid to sleep army crawling silently and in the dark

BEHOLD! I have made my first-ever sandwich bread. It’s honey wheat and it’s delicious!

Someone’s never read Lord of the Rings. Short version: Saruman is the bad guy and those Ents will have no mercy.