The National, Scotland, 13 October 2025:

I know where they can get those answers (and much, much more!) 😉 www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I was honored to preach at @candlertheology.bsky.social's chapel last week. My sermon was "Render Unto Caesar: Preaching the Gospel in an Era of Christian Power." There may have been some subtext. Watch here: www.youtube.com/embed/Xdk3k3... Read here: matthewdtaylor.substack.com/p/render-unt...

Force is ubiquitous in everyday life. We act and are acted on by causal sequences that require the exertion of force. Typical force interactions shape our inferences about the world and how we communicate in language. 1/# #biblicalgreek #linguistics (& cc: @koine-greek.com)

two weeks to go until the new term of #SeumasU I'm feeling excited and enthused about language teaching, which is a great thing! thepatrologist.com/shop/

seall air seo. it's Horst Wessel and the Reichstag fire rolled into one. designate your enemies as terrorists, invert blame for violence, and silence your opponents until there is no democracy left in america.

Lux Patrum is hiring! We are looking for people to produce bilingual editions of texts. Required: - a reasonably strong command of Greek or Latin - competence in Microsoft Word. Reach out to [email protected] if you're interested.

Got my stylish new sweatshirt to rep my first semester teaching for the U! #SeumasU #APPliny @jeltzz.bsky.social

new EO dropped. I mean, the very first sentence is wrong: “Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

this _is_ blasphemy

Fun facts you will learn in this episode: 1. Anglicanism is the most converted to denomination for autistic Christians 2. When you correct for ratios, autistic women are twice as likely to be Anglican than autistic men 3. Autistic Christians love the BCP (a lot)

filling out a referee form for someone and stumped at occupation. "virtual sophist", "professor without a university", "necromancer of languages"?

Iter Subterraneum is quickly becoming my favourite Latin text of the year.

my new class 'speak ancient greek' already filled up, so I made a second section for it. I'm trialling new materials to help you speak from day 1, conversational ancient greek. thepatrologist.com/product/gree...

about to embark on what I think will be my final year at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (air astar) and my imposter syndrome is in full force.

my brain is bubbling with ancient greek pedagogy ideas. now to just clone myself to have the time to bring them into the light.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

pondering doing a video lecture series for free that talks through the Greek of whole chapters of NT texts.

new and exciting courses at SeumasU starting in October thepatrologist.com/2025/09/01/n...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Today, August 24 is, according to the letter of Pliny the Younger, the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Pompeii. Come read that letter (VI.16) and the 9 others of the new required #APLatin syllabus with me this fall, Monday’s at 7 EDT on Zoom, starting September 1! 🌋 🏛️

Any diagnosis of the problem that doesn’t clearly see the “lecturers” doing the grunt work as the *colleagues* whose research careers are already being sacrificed on the altar of Capital isn’t going to identify a path forward for the future of the academic humanities /5

3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.

Very excited to announce that Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social is offering an Latin course on Pliny, esp. for teachers, under the #SeumasU umbrella. Starts September 1st, sign up today. thepatrologist.com/product/lati...

12th August 1944, 560 civilians are massacred in the mountain village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in the Province of Lucca (Tuscany). The victims are almost all women and children. The atrocity is carried out by Waffen-SS troops, aided by Italian fascists [Thread] >> 1

Hey AP Latin teachers and other interested Pliny readers! My book, A Pliny Workbook, is on the precipice of printing! In the meantime, you can pre-order it here: www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work... #Classics #Latin

oh man, my latin got so rusty from not speaking for a while.

Really excited to be back working on the Greek Learner Texts Project!

I'm running a Latin course on Niels Klim’s Iter Subterraneum, and we've changed the evening to Tuesdays; so if you were thinking of signing up (or now are!) there's still time. thepatrologist.com/product/lati...

Them: Seumas, are you writing a book? Me: Do you mean in English? Or in Ancient Greek?

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

Another legal immigrant arrested. We can't ever become numb to what is happening. This is wrong. It's not "normal" wrong. It's civilization-altering wrong.

having a very productive Ancient Greek day over here

Does anyone want to come on my podcast or know someone who would want to give a positive case for neurodiversity within Christianity? I've been doing too much critical examination and decided I want to try give some counter-balance

1 week to sign up for the next round of #SeumasU. Some of the best Greek and Latin courses to grace the interwebs. thepatrologist.com/shop/

Watch this to the end.

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

This is evergreen now, isn't it

Here we go! A new Greek novella for learners of Ancient Greek, covering the Trojan war. Available now storybasebooks.com/product/ho-e...

in good news, I have an exciting announcement almost ready to drop

hard to be excited about small personal wins, when you wake up to Congress funding concentration camps and stripping healthcare for millions to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

“The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers and the Rwandan genocide did not start with the slayings. It started with the dehumanization of a specific group of persons.” news.un.org/en/story/201...

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

Another cohort successfully to the end of Athenaze vol 2! Always a joy to see students get so far.

This is fucking wild

The church cannot bless war www.christiancentury.org/article/chur... via @ChristianCent

This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law.'" – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

New Classes in Ancient Greek and Latin, starting in 3 weeks' time! thepatrologist.com/2025/06/18/p...