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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 9h

The truth of Christian faith is evental. It happens where the crucified and risen Christ determines human existence. This means that Christianity must keep happening. It is the living act of God taking hold of the world in Christ, letting it determine one’s life again and again.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 10h

Dream team: Bruce McCormack, Paul Dafydd Jones, David Congdon, Suzanne McDonald, Kait Dugan, Philip Ziegler, and Christophe Chalamet.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 12h

As you know, I make only one (irrational and unjustifiable) exception to this rule, for Shia theology. They can be as spiritual as they want.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 12h

💯💯💯

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 13h

My atheist friends are always amused when I tell them that “I’m religious but absolutely not spiritual.”

Nonreligious Americans might not be as spiritual as we thought

(RNS) — Our research shows that nonreligious Americans report being significantly less spiritual than people who identify with established traditions such as Christianity, Judaism or Islam.

religionnews.com

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 14h

“By tracing the presence and political activity of Iranian students in postwar Paris, the dissertation explores how the metropolis functioned as a contact zone in which the histories of empire and exile converged.”

Caught in the trap between Chakrabarty and Goebel! #amrevising

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 14h

Trust in institutions often mirrors broader declines in interpersonal trust and social cohesion. If people believe others (including elites) are unreliable, they are less likely to trust institutions. Surveys show interpersonal trust in the U.S. has fallen over decades.

Americans’ Trust in One Another

Americans trust each other less than they did a few decades ago. We explore why this is, and why some are more trusting than others.

www.pewresearch.org

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 19h

Ah, bon ?

EN DIRECT - Les Républicains annoncent qu’ils ne participeront pas au gouvernement Lecornu II

De nouveau sous la menace de censure après sa reconduction très critiquée, le plus si nouveau Premier ministre doit constituer, dans un délai ultra-court, son nouveau gouvernement afin de pouvoir prés...

www.liberation.fr

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

A right-wing Venezuelan politician and a U.S. nationalist converge around a shared anti-Chavista narrative marketed as freedom. The Nobel Peace Prize is not a politically neutral or nonpartisan award. You should look up the people who have refused it.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

This headline, however, functions as ideological theater by elevating a local political actor by linking her to a global populist who himself undermined democratic norms. It invites outrage or validation depending on one’s camp, rather than analysis.

Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado dedicates award to Trump for 'decisive support'

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado receives Nobel Peace Prize and dedicates it to both President Trump and the "suffering people of Venezuela."

www.foxnews.com

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

Maduro’s government dismantled democratic institutions, jailed opponents, and rules through military patronage. Yet U.S. sanctions have worsened hunger and migration. A coherent left position condemns state repression and foreign coercion alike, insisting on Venezuelan self-determination.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

Leo XIV’s Dilexi Te speaks from a posture of wounded love. The new pope inherits Francis’s tenderness but adds even more urgency: the Church must again see Christ in the poor or risk forgetting who it is. Leo’s frustration with complacency is evident throughout the document.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

“I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor.” – Pope Leo, “Dilexi Te,” 23

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

Ubi cáritas et amor, Deus ibi est.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

For Osborne, "managerial humanism" treats transdisciplinarity as policy language that organizes knowledge for efficiency. It replaces reflection with coordination and ties the humanities to administrative goals that measure usefulness rather than deepen understanding.

Problematizing Disciplinarity, Transdisciplinary Problematics - Peter Osborne, 2015

This article situates current debates about transdisciplinarity within the deeper history of academic disciplinarity, in its difference from the notions of inte...

journals.sagepub.com

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

Two great texts.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

A Catechism of Divine Actuality is a Reformed confession for the present age. It describes God as living act, the event of love that gives being to all things. It invites faith to see grace unfolding in God, Christ, Spirit, Church, and New Creation.

Confessing the Event

A Catechism of Divine Actuality

keanuheydari.substack.com

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

The final question of modern Reformed theology: is revelation identical with divine being or is it the horizon within which divine being is encountered?

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

Have we seen the new Onion video yet?

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

« On se fait toujours des idées exagérées de ce que l'on ne connaît pas. » – Albert Camus

Reposted by Keanu Heydari

Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 3d

*youth pastor voice*: You know who else was labeled an insurrectionist even though he was innocent

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

“And without walls, we will storm the gates of hell, and not be afraid.”

Without Walls, by Carl-Eric Tangen

from the album Incarnation Hymns

cetangen.bandcamp.com

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

New acquisitions.

Three books on a table in Ann Arbor, outside.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

I worry about students’ ability to produce and interrogate arguments. I’m finding that many students simply have not learned *any* metaphors to describe their writing processes. It’s not so much about claims, evidence, and reasoning. It’s more about a widespread deficiency in critical thinking.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

Modern people cannot fully suppress the sacred. It returns in distorted or violent forms when denied. Total rationalization or utilitarian order only drives the sacred underground, where it reemerges as fascism.

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