Matt Thiessen
@mattthiessen
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Author of Jesus & the Forces of Death and A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles.
Only in the stupidest of all possible worlds does it make sense to ask Grok to adjudicate moral questions.
Working through some @mcmasterreligion.bsky.social files and I came across these two gems: E. P. Sanders dominating the Texas gridiron as he mentally outlines Paul and Palestinian Judaism!
If you haven't watched Netflix's Marty: Life Is Short (a doc about 🇨🇦ian, #Hamont, @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social alum Martin Short), you really should. It's beautiful!
Mark Carney: JUST ONE MORE PIPELINE BRO JUST ONE MORE PIPELINE BRO JUST ONE MORE PIPELINE BRO JUST ONE MORE PIPELINE BRO I SWEAR BRO JUST ONE MORE, I SWEAR.
Republicans: "Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that [our] friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead."
Sour patch kids are one of the only foods that simultaneously fight diabetes, reduce inflammation, protect your heart, and feed your gut bacteria!
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.”
Is this my life's greatest accomplishment? Yes. Look at that lineup.
If a Democratic president had ever posted "Trust in Me," American evangelicals would have lost their ever-loving minds.
I would pay a small fortune (up to $100 🇨🇦) to know the identity of the two people who had worse grades than Trump.
Wait, am I becoming a bit of a John scholar? Nope. But I am a @hugomendez.bsky.social fan!
QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.
Jesus Christ, famous for, among other things, punching the other cheek…