Just discovered that @drblankam.bsky.social and Abigail Graham's *Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World* with @universitypress.cambridge.org is OPEN ACCESS! Be sure to download. It's outstanding. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

So Trump has now politicized: -SCOTUS (not him specifically, that happened eons ago. But he put 3 on the bench to give him the judicial cover he needs); -The military; -The FBI; -The DOJ. Good thing the Democrats are sending strongly worded social posts.

Dutch late night TV has its take

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“The countries where comedians can't mock the leader on late night TV are not really ones you want to live in.” Chris Hayes

I got a voicemail from a CBC producer. He said that he came across my dissertation and wanted me to be a featured guest on CBC Ideas podcast bc they were doing a piece on Augustine. So I said yes and the rest is history. Here it is for your hearing pleasure open.spotify.com/episode/2v0g...

This explains it better than I can

Does it seems a little odd that the party that violently attacked our capitol is suddenly outraged with political violence?

Israel has bombed Qatar in an attempt to murder Gaza negotiators gathered for ceasefire talks, just days after bombing Yemen to murder the Prime Minister and cabinet in Sanaa, all while conducting a genocide. Obscene levels of violence. A terrorist regime in the fullest sense.

I don't know why but "Just for fun" by Beyoncé is hitting me hard rn. The beauty of the arts is that the same song can hit you in different ways at different times. Cowboy Carter is one of those albums. Don't even get me started on DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar.

kicking off 2025 with a bang by publishing my JSNT article online today (open access)! check it out to see how paul’s iconic christ might be understood, in comparative perspective, as an ancient mediterranean cult image.

First time out during the tariff war. Belated bday lunch with a friend. Waitress: What would you like to drink? Me: Ice Tea. Wait. Is it American? Waitress: Yes. Me: Ok. I'll have ginger ale. Wait. Is it Canada Dry? Waitress: No. It's Schweppes.

One bishop, in one church, literally just asked the president to be nice and him and everyone in his circle been melting down for a week. These aren't strong people. They're very, very weak people. They can be beaten.

Cousin: I don't want drama in my life. Me: I love drama in my life! As long as it's on TV or in a movie theater. If it can't be subtitled, I don't want that kind of drama in my life. #penseesbysid #convoswithSid #teatimewithTitoSid

Now why am I not surprised about this type of colonizer behaviour...

The perfect gift doesn't exi... The caption below that is a bit hidden from the angle of this photo is "Sid gwapo" (Gwapo means handsome in Tagalog)

I want to share this Christmas poem I wrote with yall Title: Christmas in the Time of Genocide

Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas!!!

One of my personal Christmas tradition is going to see Handel's Messiah. This is an event that I look forward to every Christmas season.

It's that time of the year when you find out what made it to this year's Christmas wishlist! wishlist.com/user/SIDSCHR...

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. -- Epictetus

@allylouks.bsky.social followed you here from Twitter! So sorry you have so many haters over on the old bird site!

Super excited I got to see The Kingdom Choir! Their message of love and joy is so needed in times like these! A reminder to practice gratitude in our every day lives. A reminder I definitely needed to hear!

Sorry MSNBC, but don’t be surprised by the mass exodus (38% decline) of your viewers since the election. I used to watch your network when you provided a progressive counterpoint to Fox. But when you minimized negative news coverage of Trump and amplified it for Harris, you lost me.

How can faith and positivity be bad, you ask? Oh honey, let me count the ways: www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/faith-in-f...

Euro-Med Monitor link: euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

Another starter pack - this one for Hebrew Bible scholars.

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I made a starter pack for biblical scholars working on gender and sexuality! Let me know if you would like to be added to it! go.bsky.app/VeuuJpC

Open access! *Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts* ed. Sebastian Fahner, Christian Feichtinger & Rogier E.M. van der Heijden doi.org/10.1515/9783... - incl Rolf Strootman on “Imperial Leapfrogging: How Empires Anchor Their Rule in the Past” #forgetting

Job! @johnshopkins.bsky.social is hiring a scholar of Medieval Jewish Literature and Thought in the Islamic World at the rank of assistant professor. Please help us get the word out! apply.interfolio.com/157195

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

Starter pack: women in Christian theology & ministry. go.bsky.app/93QuBQz

Finally made a #Blackademics starter pack! Let continue to build community here. This is part of #Blacksky so please show your appreciation to the architect, @rudyfraser.com

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For my new followers, I just wanted to say hi and share a little bit of who I am. I'm a Filipino Canadian scholar whose main interest lies in the intersection of psychology, history, and theology. Primarily, I explore the role of disgust in theology. Would love it if u introduced urself too!

If you are going to AAR/SBL next weekend come to the panel on my book God's Ghostwriters. Featuring responses from @christycobb.bsky.social @zafulotus.bsky.social Matthew Larsen Katherine Shaner and Jennifer Glancy. Sunday November 24 @ 4pm Upper Level 2 of the Convention Center

Fascinating recent example of dynamics of canon, with rhetoric of closure vs anthological fluidity in practice, rhetoric of historicity vs embrace of anachronism in practice (not even to mention the masking of power at play) www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...

"The dehumanizing language present in Augustine’s letters when he describes the Donatists helps create an atmosphere where his disgust at the intransigence of his Donatist opponents is palpable." - @drsids.bsky.social

Two new collections listed: • Shifra (Jewish feminist journal from UK in 1980s) • Philippine Left Review hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

A new #dissertation spotlight on AJR! Read about Sid D. Sudiacal's research on disgust, Augustine, and the Donatist Controversy www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/12...

Finally got my belated birthday gift from my bestie !!! Talk about nostalgia! I swear I'm getting all the things I couldn't have as a child lolz

@metalbiblescholar.bsky.social welcome to the place where the skies are blue!!!