Join me this Thursday September 25th at 3 PM (Dublin time) as Edmund Kee-Fook Chia will speak on: "Interfaith Dialogue: Reflections from Asia.” ZOOM details and more here: www.dcu.ie/cird/news/20...

@mikecosta.bsky.social -- would you have a moment for some questions as I'm an academic writing a chapter on the best G.I. Joe story ever--Cobra: The Last Laugh-- for my edited book on G.I. Joe, Theology, and Cobra! Thanks, Mike!

Wrapped up "The Last of Us and Theology" from @peteradmirand.bsky.social 📗 A series of thought-provoking essays: from cordyceps science to moral complexity, queer readings, and love in a broken world, it’s a fresh, smart companion to the series. Ready my full review: #GameStudies #TLOU

See my review of: How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500 By: Ivan G. Marcus--below readingreligion.org/978069125820...

After I dropped the younger kids to school today, I sat on a bench and read a chapter of Blood Meridian. A high school friend of my daughter 's was walking to school and said: "I read that book." "For school?" I asked. "No, just on my own." My older son today also quoted Hamlet. What is going on?!

2 Permanent Theology jobs at my university (Dublin City University) are now open for applications: 1 Associate/Assistant Professor in Systematic Theology and 1 Assistant Professor in Religious Ethics/Theological Ethics. Details here: www.dcu.ie/theologyphil... PM me if you have any questions!

Robots, sacrificial love, the Gospel, and Ascender and Descender (intrigued yet?!) See my "Sacrificial Love (Of Cyborgs, Saviors, and Driller, a Real Robot Killer) in the Comics Descender and Ascender." Available here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/14... @jefflemire171.bsky.social, @duss005.bsky.social

Please join us on April 16th on the DCU All Hallows Campus at 6:30 PM to hear about our programmes in Theology/Religious Studies and Philosophy and listen to fascinating (and short!) lectures by my always interesting colleagues.

Reminder: Call for papers for my EuARe panel--"Interfaith Dialogue and Transformation"-- is due April 4th. Details here: www.dcu.ie/.../2025/feb...

Enjoyed my interview on RTÉ Radio 1 (Our Divine Sparks) about theology and pop culture and the growing interest in religion and theology as a subject of study. See link below (my segment starts around 24:30…..) www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Link below to my new article in English (and Italian) titled: "Seeking Shabbat (as Love) despite Supersessionism and A Rough Night in Brussels". Thanks to Davide Saponaro for translating. fondazionerut.org/cercando-lo-...

MDPIBooks/@Religions_MDPI has just published a reprint of the collected volume *The Future of Liberation Theologies* edited by Thia Cooper and I. Free PDF download here 👇

Love starting the New Year with a Parkrun (takes away any pressure on New Year’s Eve, too!)

Stumbled on this mesmerizing collection of 3 short stories while browsing in Books Upstairs. Would have been great to read in Vilnius but worked in Dublin, too.

My article, “Confessions of a Catholic Theologian: On Silence, the Shoah, and the War in Israel-Palestine”….now published in Studies in Christian Jewish Relations. ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/sc...

Post-mountain run slumber while I’m reading from a pile of books: What in Me is Dark; The Prelude; Day Zero; Cylons in America; With a Needle in the Heart; The Origins of Totalitarianism; Christianity in Comics….it goes on as my attention span is low, hence the pile of books

In my last "Mystery of God and the Problem of Evil" class this week, an undergrad came up and said: "I hope you didn't mind that I attended your classes. I wish I had been able to register for them but really enjoyed them!"--nice story to counter the common low class attendance groans since COVID.

It’s very rare that a blood-curling, unforgettable novel (The Road) has a scintillating graphic novel adaption (by Manu Larcenet) and very watchable film version. And if The Last of Us is quasi-Road like, it’s a 5th classic connection (game and tv version…genius inspires genius

My youngest daughter, who has a cold and loves school, said this just now: “I don’t want to stay home from school. Then I just stay in my bed and cry.” I told her that was the saddest thing I ever heard. The imp laughed. Get better, little Mary, your birthday is in a few days!

“Thank you, Monkey pants.” No, thank you, James McBride for another novel full of the sweet goodness (and rottenness) of life. If you haven’t yet read it….The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store awaits….

Just going to keep posting some calls for papers #AARSBL folks may be interested in: popularcultureandtheology.com/2024/11/01/e...

Taking a break from editing my article on sacrificial love in the comics Descender and Ascender, and thought I could use a little blue sky on this wintry and grey Dublin morning.