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Christine Kooi

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Reformation historian, immigrant, dochter van Nederlanders, birder (not necessarily in that order). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Nov 12

Happy to be in bluer skies. I'm working on a book titled "1572: A Year in the End of Christendom," about the working out of reformation in Europe in the later 16th cen. Any tidbits about 1572 that you come across in your research that you're willing to share are welcome.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 9h

David Black is a Presbyterian minister, not a priest.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 17h

Rev. Black is not a priest; he's a Presbyterian minister.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Natchitoches.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 1d

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

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Society for Reformation Research (SRR) @socrefresearch.bsky.social · 1d

Mark your calendars!
The Calvin Studies Society is hosting their 2026 colloquium on March 19-21, 2026 with the focus "Calvin and Creation." Please see the attachment and QR code for more information.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

I often tell students that one of the major differences between modernity and pre-modernity is that pre-modernity regarded "innovation" as a very bad thing.

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 2d

The Innovation Illusion: Most of what’s worth knowing in education isn’t new, and most of what’s new isn’t worth knowing.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Keuriger misschien omdat ze op dat moment in een professionele modus was.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Well, as I keep telling my students, we all could benefit from more religious literacy, whatever we do or don't believe.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Uh oh, are the classicists at it again?

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Je hebt je moeders stem, Judith.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

The clergyman here is David Black, pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Right from its 16th-century beginnings, the Reformed Christian tradition has within it a long history of protest against what it saw as unjust power.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

He's a Presbyterian minister, not a priest.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

I think she was performing for an audience of exactly one.

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 2d

The Innovation Illusion: Most of what’s worth knowing in education isn’t new, and most of what’s new isn’t worth knowing.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

First officially celebrated on this day in 1572 by pope Gregory XIII.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d

7 Oct: feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Which also commemorates the battle of Lepanto in 1571.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d

7 Oct: feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Which also commemorates the battle of Lepanto in 1571.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

I'm all for more work on women in the Netherlandish Reformation (including its satellites in England).

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

And an excellent article it is, too. Well done, John!

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD in 1571 the battle of Lepanto took place. In 1572 Giorgio Vasari, commissioned by pope Pius V, painted the event for the wall of the Sala Regia in the Vatican. The 3 figures in the left foreground are the victors: Spain, the Papal States and Venice.
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