Trash talking my USA-born daughter who could't care less about either soccer or the USA is very unsatisfying.

"We're going to win. We're going to win so much ... We're going to win so much, you're going to be so sick and tired of winning, you're going to come to me and go, 'Please, please, we can't win anymore.'"

30 years ago, I was accosted on a train by a Belgian man who proceeded to lecture me (a Canadian) for 15 minutes on how Americans misnamed fries "French Fries" when they were actually "Belgian Fries" and I'm going to need to see that kind of aggrieved energy tonight from Les Diables rouges.

Everything Trump touches turns to shit. I sure as hell wasn't cheering for the USMNT, but now, no matter what happens in the next match, their accomplishments will be tainted. I'm not cheering for them, but I do feel bad for them.

FIFA needs to overturn the Canada loss next

Having just re-watched The Big Short, I can't help wondering who is betting against AI, because surely numerous smart people with money know that it is a scam. And then I wonder, how can I (and my few hundred dollars) get in on that short.

"For wealth covers a multitude of sins." MAGA Bible

where's waldo?

"In this house," as the Nicene Creed famously begins.

John Candy, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy all attended McMaster University. Factor that into your QS World Rankings next time!

Canada just beat South Africa in soccer. The one goal came from Stephen Eustáquio, who is from my hometown, Leamington, Ontario. I have never cared more about (a) Leamington, (b) soccer, and (c) Canada.

Sour patch kids are one of the only foods that simultaneously fight diabetes, reduce inflammation, protect your heart, and feed your gut bacteria!

The prophet Nathan to King David.

I could have used this poster when I was 14 and standing outside the Beer Store begging adults to buy me beer.

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

You're telling me that today is both the first day of summer AND World Giraffe Day? Fathers just can't compete with this.

Congratulations to Andrew Perrin (PhD 2013), whose book *Lost Words & Forgotten Worlds: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls* won the 2025 Foreword INDIES Gold Award for Religion (Non-Fiction)! www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...

So when did the Chronicle of Higher Education decide it would rebrand as the Enemy of Higher Education? www.chronicle.com/article/most...

This is like imagining a square circle.

There. Fixed if for you.

New book alert! Paul Duff’s *Paul and the Corinthians: Reconstructing the Relationship and the Letters* is out today with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social! www.eerdmans.com/978080287681...

"Popes are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own relatives, and in their own house.”

God: “Moses, here are the Ten Commandments.” 21st-century Moses: “Grok, please fact check these.”

No one hates academia quite like the Chronicle of Higher Education. www.chronicle.com/article/im-a...

Yeah there’s nothing at all “political” about claiming an *entire, incredibly diverse & accomplished academic field* has been politicized & ideologically captured. And it serves no interests at all, like say, right wing movements & govts or big tech companies. It’s pure disinterested objectivity.

Religious studies book idea: Toy Story and the New Animism.

but why is my 13 y.o. daughter calling me 'son'?

White Nationalists: "We love ancient Greece and Rome!" Aristotle: "The peoples of cold countries generally, and particularly those of Europe, are full of spirit, but deficient in skill and intelligence."

who could have predicted this?

Is this my life's greatest accomplishment? Yes. Look at that lineup.

So close!

One-year teaching position in the Department of Religious Studies here at McMaster!

If a Democratic president had ever posted "Trust in Me," American evangelicals would have lost their ever-loving minds.

the position of professor Jorg Frey is now available.

I love the sound of mourning doves. Seriously, waking up to the sound of mourning doves is the absolute best way to wake up in the morning.

FAFO. Chronically underfund Canadian universities and suffer the consequences. And unfortunately rankings will be the least of those consequences. @caut.bsky.social www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/eco...

According to Genesis 1, God saw that it was good on Days 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of creation. Day 2:

If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

Simply damning

Job Alert: tenure-track position in Theological Ethics at the rank of assistant professor to begin in the fall semester of 2027, in the Dept. of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Please share widely!

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

Dear Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what your country can do for Trump and his family and other billionaires.

Congratulations to Gregory Fewster for winning the Beare Award for his book _The Authentic Paul: Critical Scholarship and the Making of the Christian Book_ (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025)!

What a twerp.

And that's why they keep jam, jam, jamming it down our throats…

I don't really like either band. Also you'll catch me singing Iris and Mr. Jones wholeheartedly every time they come on the radio.

Proverbs that should have made it into the Bible but didn’t, including my fave: "Be slow in choosing plans, but fast in canceling them."

I would pay a small fortune (up to $100 🇨🇦) to know the identity of the two people who had worse grades than Trump.