Dion Forster
@digitaldion.bsky.social
Husband, father, friend, servant - professor of Public Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, extraordinary professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Stellenbosch University (opinions my own)
‘I want to be ever a child…’
Blessings and joy to everyone who is returning to work and service today! Do good wherever and whenever you can. Take care of people and creation.
Blessings and joy to everyone who is returning to work and service today! Do good wherever and whenever you can. Take care of people and creation.
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 AM
‘I want to be ever a child…’
Blessings and joy to everyone who is returning to work and service today! Do good wherever and whenever you can. Take care of people and creation.
Blessings and joy to everyone who is returning to work and service today! Do good wherever and whenever you can. Take care of people and creation.
The WCC condemns US attacks in Venezuela, warning they set a dangerous precedent by normalising armed force for political ends. It calls for an immediate halt, respect for international law, and action by global bodies.
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WCC condemns US Attacks in Venezuela, calls for respect for international law
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay has strongly condemned recent attacks carried out by the United States of America in Venezuela, including the capture and d...
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January 3, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The WCC condemns US attacks in Venezuela, warning they set a dangerous precedent by normalising armed force for political ends. It calls for an immediate halt, respect for international law, and action by global bodies.
oikoumene.org/news/wcc-con...
oikoumene.org/news/wcc-con...
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ⛄️☃️🌨️❄️
January 3, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ⛄️☃️🌨️❄️
At the start of a new year, I find myself returning to the Methodist Covenant Prayer.
It frames my hope for the year ahead: faithfulness, service, and to be more deeply shaped by Christ, the Prince of Peace.
May this year open paths toward peace, justice, wholeness, and love.
God bless you all!
It frames my hope for the year ahead: faithfulness, service, and to be more deeply shaped by Christ, the Prince of Peace.
May this year open paths toward peace, justice, wholeness, and love.
God bless you all!
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
At the start of a new year, I find myself returning to the Methodist Covenant Prayer.
It frames my hope for the year ahead: faithfulness, service, and to be more deeply shaped by Christ, the Prince of Peace.
May this year open paths toward peace, justice, wholeness, and love.
God bless you all!
It frames my hope for the year ahead: faithfulness, service, and to be more deeply shaped by Christ, the Prince of Peace.
May this year open paths toward peace, justice, wholeness, and love.
God bless you all!
We watched MK Dons beat Swindon 1-0. Such a fun afternoon with family!! The football was great and the crowd was amazing!
December 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We watched MK Dons beat Swindon 1-0. Such a fun afternoon with family!! The football was great and the crowd was amazing!
‘O Word, now wrapped in human skin: speak peace on earth through your children.’
- Common Prayer: A liturgy for ordinary radicals
Child of Bethlehem, Prince of Peace, what do you wish for your birthplace, Bethlehem? What do you desire for your descendents in Palestine?
youtu.be/9j4DO-_PLpE
- Common Prayer: A liturgy for ordinary radicals
Child of Bethlehem, Prince of Peace, what do you wish for your birthplace, Bethlehem? What do you desire for your descendents in Palestine?
youtu.be/9j4DO-_PLpE
#Palestine #advent Bethlehem what would Jesus want for his birthplace at Christmas? #KairosPalestine
YouTube video by Dion Forster
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
‘O Word, now wrapped in human skin: speak peace on earth through your children.’
- Common Prayer: A liturgy for ordinary radicals
Child of Bethlehem, Prince of Peace, what do you wish for your birthplace, Bethlehem? What do you desire for your descendents in Palestine?
youtu.be/9j4DO-_PLpE
- Common Prayer: A liturgy for ordinary radicals
Child of Bethlehem, Prince of Peace, what do you wish for your birthplace, Bethlehem? What do you desire for your descendents in Palestine?
youtu.be/9j4DO-_PLpE
#oldmanrunning slow, steady, and with freezing legs 🥶❄️🤣🎄🙌 in beautiful Hemel Hempstead.
December 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#oldmanrunning slow, steady, and with freezing legs 🥶❄️🤣🎄🙌 in beautiful Hemel Hempstead.
A blessed Christmas to all of you, dear friends, dear family.
We wish grace, peace, hope, goodness, and love for you and your loved ones!
We wish grace, peace, hope, goodness, and love for you and your loved ones!
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A blessed Christmas to all of you, dear friends, dear family.
We wish grace, peace, hope, goodness, and love for you and your loved ones!
We wish grace, peace, hope, goodness, and love for you and your loved ones!
I took my darlings to visit my old (and current!) college, Wesley House Cambridge. It was a beautiful day! It was amazing to show them some of my favorite places. I am back to do the Brian Beck Memorial Lecture on 22 January 2026, and spend time with colleagues, friends and students.
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I took my darlings to visit my old (and current!) college, Wesley House Cambridge. It was a beautiful day! It was amazing to show them some of my favorite places. I am back to do the Brian Beck Memorial Lecture on 22 January 2026, and spend time with colleagues, friends and students.
Ho! Ho! Ho! Getting a head start on Christmas! 🎅🎄❤️🎉🥳❤️🙏
December 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Ho! Ho! Ho! Getting a head start on Christmas! 🎅🎄❤️🎉🥳❤️🙏
We’re on our way to London! We drove from Amsterdam to Dunkirk and caught a Ferry to Dover, and then the last little drive to Craig and Kathryn! Let the festivities begin! We are so grateful to be with family this Christmas! We wish that Courtney and Darren were here too!🎄🚙🥳
December 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We’re on our way to London! We drove from Amsterdam to Dunkirk and caught a Ferry to Dover, and then the last little drive to Craig and Kathryn! Let the festivities begin! We are so grateful to be with family this Christmas! We wish that Courtney and Darren were here too!🎄🚙🥳
I don’t write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me! A painful, yet beautiful reflection learning to read and write in English, and the distrust and miss-recognition that some in the majority world (and elsewhere!) face in the age of Large Language Models.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I don’t write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me! A painful, yet beautiful reflection learning to read and write in English, and the distrust and miss-recognition that some in the majority world (and elsewhere!) face in the age of Large Language Models.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
Reposted by Dion Forster
💡Hoe krijgen we het politieke en maatschappelijke debat weer op de rails? Misschien door gewoon terug te grijpen op de klassieke deugden, betoog ik samen met @rikpeels.bsky.social:
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Opinie | Waar zijn de waarden en deugden in de politiek?
Politiek: Door de eeuwen heen zijn we de klassieke deugden uit de oudheid uit het oog verloren. Maar het huidige politieke debat kan die goed gebruiken, betogen Beatrice de Graaf en Rik Peels.
www.nrc.nl
October 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
💡Hoe krijgen we het politieke en maatschappelijke debat weer op de rails? Misschien door gewoon terug te grijpen op de klassieke deugden, betoog ik samen met @rikpeels.bsky.social:
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
@davidboogerd.bsky.social so great to find you here! I am absolutely loving De Ongelooflijke Geschiedenis - the longer episodes around a theme are a winner! Thanks David!
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@davidboogerd.bsky.social so great to find you here! I am absolutely loving De Ongelooflijke Geschiedenis - the longer episodes around a theme are a winner! Thanks David!
Go Cheetahs!!! We went to watch the South African Cheetah 🐆 rugby 🏉 team playing in Amsterdam! It was wonderful to be with friends, and sunshine in December was amazing! #Cheetahs @cheetahsrugby
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Go Cheetahs!!! We went to watch the South African Cheetah 🐆 rugby 🏉 team playing in Amsterdam! It was wonderful to be with friends, and sunshine in December was amazing! #Cheetahs @cheetahsrugby
The latest edition of our journal, IJPT has just been published.
The theme of this issue is: ‘Public Theological Issues in Disputed Framings: Studies on Religious Freedom, Conflicts and Pressing Contemporary Debates’
brill.com/view/journal...
Thanks to Prof Rudolf von Sinner.
The theme of this issue is: ‘Public Theological Issues in Disputed Framings: Studies on Religious Freedom, Conflicts and Pressing Contemporary Debates’
brill.com/view/journal...
Thanks to Prof Rudolf von Sinner.
brill.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The latest edition of our journal, IJPT has just been published.
The theme of this issue is: ‘Public Theological Issues in Disputed Framings: Studies on Religious Freedom, Conflicts and Pressing Contemporary Debates’
brill.com/view/journal...
Thanks to Prof Rudolf von Sinner.
The theme of this issue is: ‘Public Theological Issues in Disputed Framings: Studies on Religious Freedom, Conflicts and Pressing Contemporary Debates’
brill.com/view/journal...
Thanks to Prof Rudolf von Sinner.
“Remembering the stable where for once in our lives. Everything became a You and nothing was an it.”
- W.H. Auden, For the Time Being
- W.H. Auden, For the Time Being
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
“Remembering the stable where for once in our lives. Everything became a You and nothing was an it.”
- W.H. Auden, For the Time Being
- W.H. Auden, For the Time Being
Dear friends, please join me in congratulating Dr Elijah Keay and Dr Wynand Marc Breytenbach who received their PhD degrees at Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University today!
It was such a joy and a privilege to undertake this journey with you! Congratulations!
It was such a joy and a privilege to undertake this journey with you! Congratulations!
December 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Dear friends, please join me in congratulating Dr Elijah Keay and Dr Wynand Marc Breytenbach who received their PhD degrees at Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University today!
It was such a joy and a privilege to undertake this journey with you! Congratulations!
It was such a joy and a privilege to undertake this journey with you! Congratulations!
I spoke with @lesterkk on @CapeTalk about why religious groups oppose the CRL Commission’s plans to regulate religion. In SA we must protect people from abuse and safeguard religious freedom. Listen here ➡️ youtu.be/zBIJVaBXASs?... #ReligiousFreedom
Can South Africa’s churches be regulated?
YouTube video by CapeTalk
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December 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I spoke with @lesterkk on @CapeTalk about why religious groups oppose the CRL Commission’s plans to regulate religion. In SA we must protect people from abuse and safeguard religious freedom. Listen here ➡️ youtu.be/zBIJVaBXASs?... #ReligiousFreedom
Dearest friends, I am so grateful to deliver the Brian E. Beck memorial lecture at Wesley House, Cambridge on 22 January 2026. If you are in the area, please do join us!
Registration is open for January's Brian E Beck memorial lecture:
brianbeck.eventbrite.co.uk
Registration is open for January's Brian E Beck memorial lecture:
brianbeck.eventbrite.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Dearest friends, I am so grateful to deliver the Brian E. Beck memorial lecture at Wesley House, Cambridge on 22 January 2026. If you are in the area, please do join us!
Registration is open for January's Brian E Beck memorial lecture:
brianbeck.eventbrite.co.uk
Registration is open for January's Brian E Beck memorial lecture:
brianbeck.eventbrite.co.uk
Today is World AIDS day. We stand with all persons who are infected and affected by HIV & AIDS. The title is ‘The body of Christ has AIDS’. It is based on what we read in 1 Cor 12:26, ‘If one part of the body suffers, every part suffers with it.’
#WorldAIDSDay
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#WorldAIDSDay
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The Body of Christ has AIDS VLOG 48 World AIDS Day
YouTube video by Dion Forster
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Today is World AIDS day. We stand with all persons who are infected and affected by HIV & AIDS. The title is ‘The body of Christ has AIDS’. It is based on what we read in 1 Cor 12:26, ‘If one part of the body suffers, every part suffers with it.’
#WorldAIDSDay
youtu.be/zbIsgsoDCA8?...
#WorldAIDSDay
youtu.be/zbIsgsoDCA8?...
🌍 Save the Date!
The Global Network for Public Theology meets in Amsterdam 19–23 Oct 2026, hosted at @VUamsterdam.
Theme: Public Theology in a Fractured World.
📅 Call for papers: early Jan 2026
📝 Registration: March (capped at ~100)
More soon!
#GNPT2026 #PublicTheology
The Global Network for Public Theology meets in Amsterdam 19–23 Oct 2026, hosted at @VUamsterdam.
Theme: Public Theology in a Fractured World.
📅 Call for papers: early Jan 2026
📝 Registration: March (capped at ~100)
More soon!
#GNPT2026 #PublicTheology
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🌍 Save the Date!
The Global Network for Public Theology meets in Amsterdam 19–23 Oct 2026, hosted at @VUamsterdam.
Theme: Public Theology in a Fractured World.
📅 Call for papers: early Jan 2026
📝 Registration: March (capped at ~100)
More soon!
#GNPT2026 #PublicTheology
The Global Network for Public Theology meets in Amsterdam 19–23 Oct 2026, hosted at @VUamsterdam.
Theme: Public Theology in a Fractured World.
📅 Call for papers: early Jan 2026
📝 Registration: March (capped at ~100)
More soon!
#GNPT2026 #PublicTheology
A major milestone! The social identity complexity concept I developed in my 2006 PhD has become an empirically tested theory!
An Acta Theologica special issue honours Prof Chris Hermans with work by him, my former PhD students, colleagues, and myself.
journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at...
An Acta Theologica special issue honours Prof Chris Hermans with work by him, my former PhD students, colleagues, and myself.
journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at...
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
A major milestone! The social identity complexity concept I developed in my 2006 PhD has become an empirically tested theory!
An Acta Theologica special issue honours Prof Chris Hermans with work by him, my former PhD students, colleagues, and myself.
journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at...
An Acta Theologica special issue honours Prof Chris Hermans with work by him, my former PhD students, colleagues, and myself.
journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at...
We are so grateful, so blessed! Our daughter Courtney got engaged to Darren yesterday! What a beautiful couple! Such joy, such hope, such love! Please join us in giving thanks!
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
We are so grateful, so blessed! Our daughter Courtney got engaged to Darren yesterday! What a beautiful couple! Such joy, such hope, such love! Please join us in giving thanks!
Today I have the privilege of doing a public lecture at the Reutlingen School of Theology. I was asked to speak on Public Theology for times of crisis.
I am looking forward to this engagement with Methodist siblings from around Europe a great deal! @theologischehochschule
I am looking forward to this engagement with Methodist siblings from around Europe a great deal! @theologischehochschule
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Today I have the privilege of doing a public lecture at the Reutlingen School of Theology. I was asked to speak on Public Theology for times of crisis.
I am looking forward to this engagement with Methodist siblings from around Europe a great deal! @theologischehochschule
I am looking forward to this engagement with Methodist siblings from around Europe a great deal! @theologischehochschule