Daniel Rempel
@drempel.bsky.social
Bible and theology prof at Providence (🇨🇦) | PhD in theological ethics from Aberdeen | long-suffering fan of the Winnipeg Jets and Arsenal Football Club
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Daniel Rempel
@drempel.bsky.social
· Sep 9
EXCITING NEWS: yesterday, I submitted the manuscript for my first book to Baylor University Press. Tentatively titled “Intellectual Disability and the Christian Life,” this book is an attempt to give language to the ongoing Christian witness of people with intellectual disabilities.
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This looks good.
February 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
This looks good.
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Dear university administrators, politicians of good will, and the general public, we need the field of religious studies more now than we have ever.
We live in a delusional rich man's fever dream.
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune
The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.
fortune.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Dear university administrators, politicians of good will, and the general public, we need the field of religious studies more now than we have ever.
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Fuller Seminary has recently announced THREE endowed chair positions: 1. Chair of Faith & Public Life, 2. Homer L. Goddard Chair in Transformational Church Ministry, 3. Lip-Bu Tan Chair for the Future Church. Know a qualified candidate? Please share! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Fuller Seminary has recently announced THREE endowed chair positions: 1. Chair of Faith & Public Life, 2. Homer L. Goddard Chair in Transformational Church Ministry, 3. Lip-Bu Tan Chair for the Future Church. Know a qualified candidate? Please share! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
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Call for papers!
Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world.
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
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Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world.
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
Follow us at @theoscot.bsky.social for more news, calls, and updates
February 6, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Call for papers!
Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world.
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
Follow us at @theoscot.bsky.social for more news, calls, and updates
Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world.
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
Follow us at @theoscot.bsky.social for more news, calls, and updates
That headline — “he believed” — may indeed tell the whole story.
Officer tells Eishia Hudson inquest he shot at teen because he believed officers were in danger | CBC News
A Winnipeg police officer who fatally shot a 16-year-old First Nations girl following a robbery and car chase says there was nothing that could have trained him for that moment.
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
That headline — “he believed” — may indeed tell the whole story.
I think it was fair to give the Jets until the break to make decisions about what to do. But now it’s clear: we need to retool.
February 5, 2026 at 2:49 AM
I think it was fair to give the Jets until the break to make decisions about what to do. But now it’s clear: we need to retool.
Slobodian calls this crack-up capitalism.
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 4, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Slobodian calls this crack-up capitalism.
I will heretofore be working to dismantle neoliberalism for heart and stroke related reasons.
80% of premature heart disease and stroke preventable: report | CBC News
More than six million people across Canada are living with heart disease or stroke, according to a new report with tips on what individuals can do to cut their risk.
www.cbc.ca
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I will heretofore be working to dismantle neoliberalism for heart and stroke related reasons.
Accidentally just spent 45 minutes lecturing on a single, basic sentence from Ellul.
The sentence in question? “So then, what is the Good according to the Bible?”
The sentence in question? “So then, what is the Good according to the Bible?”
February 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Accidentally just spent 45 minutes lecturing on a single, basic sentence from Ellul.
The sentence in question? “So then, what is the Good according to the Bible?”
The sentence in question? “So then, what is the Good according to the Bible?”
Do you ever notice how all Instagram influencers have really nice houses?
February 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Do you ever notice how all Instagram influencers have really nice houses?
Jared’s excellent book releases next month!
Conspiracy theory is a caricatured, reductionist way to analyze and narrate power exercised in the material world. Rejecting conspiracy theory does not mean denying the complex, the veiled, or the existence of evil itself.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Jared’s excellent book releases next month!
Firefox remains undefeated.
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
www.siliconrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Firefox remains undefeated.
One thing I still haven’t come to terms with three years into the job is that I need to make new lectures for every class each time I teach a new course.
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
One thing I still haven’t come to terms with three years into the job is that I need to make new lectures for every class each time I teach a new course.
Tbh I didn’t have Franklin Graham commending Jelly Roll on my bingo card for today.
February 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Tbh I didn’t have Franklin Graham commending Jelly Roll on my bingo card for today.
I wonder if the American collapse could’ve been avoided if they hadn’t decided to use ounces to refer to both mass and volume?
February 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I wonder if the American collapse could’ve been avoided if they hadn’t decided to use ounces to refer to both mass and volume?
The first specialty coffee shop to set up on Pembina south of Jubilee (preferably north of McGillivray, but beggars can’t be choosers) is going to make a lot of money off of me.
February 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The first specialty coffee shop to set up on Pembina south of Jubilee (preferably north of McGillivray, but beggars can’t be choosers) is going to make a lot of money off of me.
Poilievre: *loses election after being significantly ahead in the polls, loses own riding to newbie MP, ousts sitting MP in safest riding in the country to maintain spot in parliament*
CPCs: “we have no doubt that this is absolutely the right man for the job”
CPCs: “we have no doubt that this is absolutely the right man for the job”
January 31, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Poilievre: *loses election after being significantly ahead in the polls, loses own riding to newbie MP, ousts sitting MP in safest riding in the country to maintain spot in parliament*
CPCs: “we have no doubt that this is absolutely the right man for the job”
CPCs: “we have no doubt that this is absolutely the right man for the job”
It’s not too late to submit something and join us in June!
The CFP for the Canadian Theological Society’s 2026 Annual Meeting is now live! We’re meeting apart from Congress alongside the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion and the Canadian Society of Church History. I’m excited to welcome everyone to Winnipeg in June. cts-stc.ca/2025/11/14/2...
2026 CTS Call for Papers – Canadian Theological Society
cts-stc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 9:12 PM
It’s not too late to submit something and join us in June!
I would also be interested in hearing what people’s plans are.
January 29, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I would also be interested in hearing what people’s plans are.
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Winnipeg is building a ton of new housing units so now all my friends have no excuse but to move here.
Winnipeg's St. Charles Hotel slated to become 11-storey residential tower, facade will remain | CBC News
A Winnipeg hotel that's stood empty for more than two decades is one of four downtown heritage buildings slated to be converted into residential housing with the help of $4.7 million in public funds.
www.cbc.ca
January 28, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Winnipeg is building a ton of new housing units so now all my friends have no excuse but to move here.
I think a trip back to Scotland might fix me.
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I think a trip back to Scotland might fix me.
God seems to show up in and around plants quite a bit in the Old Testament, hey?
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
God seems to show up in and around plants quite a bit in the Old Testament, hey?
how do you work for Palantir and not know that you’re the bad guy
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:41 AM
how do you work for Palantir and not know that you’re the bad guy
Has there ever been a theology video as useful as St Patrick’s Bad Analogies?
St. Patrick's Bad Analogies
YouTube video by LutheranSatire
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January 26, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Has there ever been a theology video as useful as St Patrick’s Bad Analogies?