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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 21h

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the Church and for society, if we can only set ourselves free of our self-centeredness and open our ears to their cry." Pope Leo, Dilexi Te

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 1d

The real strangeness is the sudden allergy to weaponised 'guilt' from a political tendency which loves to assign guilt by association to people who aren't white men.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 2d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 9d

There are a whole lot of really weird ways this echoes with Chesterton's bizzare misogyny in 'What's Wrong With the World', too. And I do wonder whether the association between Plato and women is some kind of echo of the 'everyone I don't like is gnostic [feminine, immaterial, silly]' trope

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 10d

Argue with a particular kind of Xn and they start talking about 'God's plan'. So you argue natural theology and they shift to 'it's Gnosticism', so you argue heresy and they shift to 'but mental illness,' as though there's a consistent idea of humanity or gender that holds across those three areas.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 10d

And this is fine, we don't need one and definitely shouldn't impose our ideas of What It Is To Be Human on others. Which is why we should refuse to engage with people who demand an account of transness which is consistent with a whole variety of incompatible notions of fundamental humanness.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 10d

Seeing discourse on 'right to belief' and it's making me think of how many people seem to demand One Single Consistent Ontology of Transness before they'll accept it and, like, the whole history of philosophy shows we don't even have a single consistent ontology of humanness.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 13d

Broke the 50k word barrier! Actually having a readable book by the Jan deadline feels somewhat doable now!

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, like, I'm not inherently against it but you absolutely know they're eventually going to include 'bio sex' and then be touted as the solution to how unworkable asking all service providers to police toilets is.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 14d

Six draft chapters. None of them really end yet. Need to write a 'context and rationale' type intro. 2 days of study leave left before we're back to 'somehow write in "spare" time. Need to do So Much Editing.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 14d

I'm not saying Starmer wants Farage to be the next PM, I am saying that if he did want that this is the kind of thing he'd do.

Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 14d

Dire framing. Strategically and morally bankrupt.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 16d

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.

This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 16d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 16d

If you want a sense of the kind of nonsense that's in this book,I just cited Andrea Long Chu and Aquinas in the same paragraph, just after responding to Marquise Bey with the preface of a liturgical manual from the 1860s.

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 17d

Please God. Can some mainstream news outlet explain properly how long and how costly the immigration process in the UK is? And that there is NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS the whole time. And you PAY A SURCHARGE for the NHS. And you pay your taxes.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17d

4 chapters drafted, hitting the 'what if this is all nonsense' stage #amwriting

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 21d

Possibly a ch2 draft completed now? Next task is to work out which chapter is chapter 3... #amwriting

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 22d

Decent chunk of ch2 drafted today, from a starting point of 'ch2 exists entirely in my head and nowhere else' #amwriting

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 18d

But he's probably just saying what he thinks his audience want to hear because he doesn't believe people carry on existing when he can't see them

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 18d

I wonder if he believes he's being even handed: 'I know you won't like being segregated and legally degendered, but I do feel bad about the waiting lists, so I'll arrange for some CBT you didn't ask for while you wait for the care I'm going to remove. See, this is balance'

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 19d

And even then, this...does not seem like it would be more efficient in any way? I simply would not do this.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22d

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 19d

AAAAAAAAAAAAH

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 19d

At the 'oh, wait, that's cool and kind of relevant, but where does it fit' stage of trying to hold a book length argument in my head...

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 21d

Possibly a ch2 draft completed now? Next task is to work out which chapter is chapter 3... #amwriting

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 22d

Decent chunk of ch2 drafted today, from a starting point of 'ch2 exists entirely in my head and nowhere else' #amwriting

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 23d

First draft of the first chapter complete. Very choppy, will need much much editing, but a draft is better than no draft.

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you! Honestly I can see the wisdom of having a non-exert read a draft, since I'm hoping some non experts might read the final thing!

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 22d

Feels more like it might actually exist after a few days doing nothing else!

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 22d

Decent chunk of ch2 drafted today, from a starting point of 'ch2 exists entirely in my head and nowhere else' #amwriting

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 23d

First draft of the first chapter complete. Very choppy, will need much much editing, but a draft is better than no draft.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 23d

So, an Equality Act that worked perfectly well in reality before the Supreme Court debacle, now no longer functions in a way that businesses can follow and adopt.
And what does Falkner do? She throws businesses under the bus and makes them try to swim through the mess she’s created.

Earlier this month, the chair of the EHRC, Kishwer Falkner, said it would be "difficult" for service providers to adapt a ruling on the legal definition of a woman "into practical steps".
The crossbench peer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think it's going to be difficult for duty bearers, service providers, to adapt a ruling which is quite black and white into practical steps according to their own circumstances and their own organisation, which is why we've always emphasised they should take their own advice as well as adhering to our code."

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 23d

First draft of the first chapter complete. Very choppy, will need much much editing, but a draft is better than no draft.

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