I am taking this week off, but I was up early to attend the excellent conclusion of Project Bonhoeffer's Fall seminar sessions. This final session tackled Bonhoeffer and the world of alternative facts. @kevinofarrell.bsky.social work got a well deserved shout out. youtu.be/WrHXBAwlm7A?...

I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.

From @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social

Sad day for the Anglican Communion: www.christiandaily.com/news/nigeria...

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

I’m grateful to finally have this resource I co-authored out in the wild. This new edition aims to equip churches (particularly in the global south) for disability ministry.

The hardcover version seems slightly overpriced

Learn from one of the best on a very important and timely topic

The Hebrew Scriptures state that such prior problems multiply—rather than reduce—the wrongdoing of further harm. On Mt Sinai, the Lord declared allegiance with those who have preexisting conditions, and gave a law declaring Israel shall not be if it does not share God's compassion (e.g. Ex 22:21-7).

"Most of the promotion of A.I. in schools boils down to: Well, it’s happening, and so students need to know. But there’s nothing attaching it to learning outcomes. There’s nothing assessing its risk to privacy, to data, to the mental and emotional and cognitive development of students."

Get it while you can. It’ll change your life

Reviews on my Bonhoeffer book are coming out and no one’s called me stupid yet. Theology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Studies in Christian Ethics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers who fled persecution for their Christian faith were detained by ICE in Los Angeles. The arrests add to a growing number of church members taken despite lawful status.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

One of my fav bits of non-commentary on the pope was when a tv anchor said “it’s important to note that he is Augustinian.” When asked why it was important, she answered “well it is an order in the Catholic Church” and nothing else

In his first Sunday address at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine. "I carry in my heart the sufferings of the beloved Ukrainian people. Let everything possible be done to achieve genuine, just and lasting peace as soon as possible⤵️

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

Also from Pope Francis’s Stations of the Cross meditations: “An economy in which the ninety-nine are more important than the one is inhumane. Yet we have built a world that works like that: a world of calculation and algorithms, of cold logic and implacable interests.”

Apparently Lacan once took the Heideggers on a road trip and his driving was so erratic Martin thought Lacan was testing his authentic being towards death

France, the country of true justice

Nightmare: "The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up."

Two experiences of the Uffizi Me vs my small child

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

This is a great resource from Sociedad Biblia. They are making simple language Bibles that are accessible to people with intellectual disability. They limit the vocab and simplify sentences. They have translated parables, and are now translating the gospel of Luke, Acts, and OT stories.

"For Holland (and, frankly, all serious historians and theologians), Western Christianity’s genius is in its pluralism..." Such grounded wisdom in this little essay

Just had dinner with pastors in Barcelona who shared so much wisdom from their history: highlights include navigating religious oppression under Franco, transforming dying churches in a minority faith community (baptists), and 18 year olds coming together to reconcile church divisions of past gens

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

Headed back to the UK for the first time since leaving 4 years ago. Feels weird to not go to Faberdeen but it will be good to connect with friends in Bristol and Nottingham.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... This is deeply wrong. Coping with disability already brings suffering, discrimination, poverty. There is no evidence that those claiming PIP do so fraudulently. There is evidence wealth is not taxed effectively. Labour do better.

Now live from Prof. Brock's Scott Hawkins Lecture! Click through to read more on his thoughts on AI and Ethical Intelligence! blog.smu.edu/maguireethic...

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

Really excellent work by @kevinofarrell.bsky.social.

I can’t handle this painfully naive editorial from my local town paper: “When did the boss asking for a list of accomplishments become a burden? And when did defying the boss become OK?”

Very sorry to hear of the death of Martin Marty, church historian and interpreter of the history of American religion. www.rblandmark.com/2025/02/26/r...

This is helpful to explain threats to disability rights at the moment. I loved her conclusion: "While the politicians are still reciting the same script, our revolutionary predecessors gave us a new story. We are a valuable part of our communities, we belong here, & we’ve been shown how to fight.”

In-n-out edition of “woe’s hollow” in severance

I went to Ukraine in 2021 for my organization. I traveled through the west and my final days were spent in Kyiv. On my finale day, it was their 30th anniversary of independence. I attended their parades and marches. /1

How does he have time to read Carl Schmitt??

Plans for Assisted Dying Review Panels have be released. It's a massive change to the Bill, and I can't believe it can be made and accepted without hearing new evidence and starting scrutiny again. It turns out "Judge-plus" is no such thing. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Excellent episode of The Personalist Manifestos with @kevinofarrell.bsky.social and @michaelmorelli.bsky.social! Great discussion and well worth a listen! Thank you both. youtu.be/Amt4ZftbWOA?...

It was great to hang with an old friend and chat about Bonhoeffer’s significance / legacy, the exception, and the fragmentary character of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought on the Personalist Manifestos podcast

Encouraged to see this essay I wrote for the Political Theology Network out in the world: “The Death of a Fascist Does Not Mean The End of Fascism.” politicaltheology.com/the-death-of...

Finally got around to watching the new Bonhoeffer movie. Its vision of Bonhoeffer reminds me of the guy who said he was glad Bonhoeffer did not let his theology impede his work (quoted in Haynes). They tried really hard to portray him as a theologian who thinks theology is useless times of crisis

Elon Musk and DOGE are now publicly targeting Lutheran groups for cuts. Among those listed: Global Refuge (formerly LIRS), one of 6 faith-based groups that have long helped the govt resettle refugees. Not clear why Musk contends this funding, which is longstanding and well known, is "illegal."

Really grim stuff. And the humanities (incl religion & theology) at the sharp end of huge cuts. Horrible for staff. This is the sector of the economy the Chancellor was rightly boasting of days ago. Time to save it if you value it.