chapman.wiki
Python and Javascript by day; problem-solving in Christian thought by night (chapman.wiki). Recent writing on conspiracism, polarisation, and populism, especially Christian forms. He/him. Melbourne/Australia. @eukras on socials. Hello!
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If Martin Luther King played Cricket, even so would it appear.
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Just a little more?
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They may have adopted Glenn Maxwell as their spirit animal.
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Got to find people and feeds to follow, as there's no algorithm. Try the directory of starter packs. blueskystarterpack.com
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For some time I've wanted a journalistic rule that the word "may" in a headline must be followed with "or may not".
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Vibe of 2025....
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The feeds are the closest things here to an algorithm.
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Well, there's a fountain pen feed.
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Whether ballpoints or rollerballs it the pen is just a shell for the refills, so they seem like they're much of a muchness. And the refills only come in a few colours.
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Your book always has me humming the Zevon song (My Ride's Here), though I see that wasn't the reference.
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For a book on conspiracism, I'd have happily paid up to a few hundred for a particular, fantastic piece of fractal art on DeviantArt that perfectly captured the spiralling self-referential complexity of it all -- but got no reply from the artist. Had to go with something else that wasn't as good.
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Yes, quite apart from the importance of those chapters for Jewish/Christian separation from gentile porneia, Paul quotes from chs 18 and 19 elsewhere in both Romans and Galatians. PLus there's the likely derivation of arsenokoites. Even if he's working from a catena, they're front-of-mind.
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The most ironic thing it can't do is create.
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Same
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I've a piece that argues Paul says 6-7 different things about the nature and origin of the same-sex attractions in view and what he says shows that he did not refer to what we would now call orientation. I'd be interested to see what he'd make of that, as I've quite liked his approach to the topic.
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I was reminded about this thread by listening to your Sprinkle interview today. I was quite intrigued that he thought there was no reference to same-sex "attraction" in Rom 1.
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Hi Dru; I read most of "What Hath" a while back; not sure I have much to say on it, as my OT interests mostly grow out of my NT/Pauline interests, and this didn't intersect much. But interesting about the guy who theorises an Adam who gradually becomes the father of humanity through cross breeding.
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An editor from 100 Movements mentioned it. They're a small hybrid publisher doing missional stuff if that's any use to you.
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Mmmyes. In looking through it, I felt I was missing some important context. I'm supposing the paid version is actually useful in finding matches, or assessing agents once you know they published similar work.
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I've seen Query Tracker recommended for the US/UK, though can't vouch for it. (I mention it mainly because I'm curious about whether it works, so erm if you find out...)
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It's incredible what a long run US conspiracism has gotten out of just a few basic ideas, remixed every twenty years or so with the villains and schemes being swapped in and out.
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We were mainly focused on tensions and conflicts in church situations, which we'd all seen in the pandemic. This was our end product in 2022... iscast.org/conspiracy/
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I saw recently there's a new book out called 'Weaponizing Conspiracy Theories' that would have been readily helpful for the ways they intentionally drive conflict. We also found very little in the way of mature Christian reflection on causes or responses, especially in ethics or conflict resolution.
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There was a lot of interest in conspiracy studies after Trump in 2016, which was good for conspiracy theory study and also politics, esp. populism. We didn't find a lot on Christian engagement and had to piece that together from approaches to (US) eschatology, sectarianism, and expertise denial.
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Your research interests sound great! I led a small volunteer project a few years ago on Christian Belief in Conspiracy Theories, and there weren't a lot of directly relevant sources in many areas.
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"... and I'm beginning to think that they don't even care."
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I don't see this if I'm viewing a specific directory though, which is how I mainly use it now. So I've assumed it's just bad caching of recent updates.
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I see this when renaming files. Don't know if that's the only cause.
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👍I don't envy anyone who has to take on conspiracism in 10 mins. The approach I like best is: 1) Respect good intentions in conspiracism (for rapport). 2) Understand other kinds of fringe mistrust in church (which support it). 3) Commit to avoid slandering anybody (that's the big risk).
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I read all the Dorothy Sayers mysteries this year (if we don't just mean novels that were published in 2024). The Nine Tailors was the big winner for its fantastically clever hiding-in-plain-sight killer.