Word mercenary. Writing a book on the Moonies; wrote one on the global Pentecostal movement; various podcasts; stuff in @guardian, @newrepublic, @thenation etc.
🚨 Thrilled to finally announce that I'm writing a book on Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church, aka the Moonies, and their remarkable role in 20th century history 🚨
this reminds me of two classic russian headlines about a man shooting someone over kant and a fatal stabbing following an argument of poetry versus prose
Oh lol that https://t.co/npxXcD6WQG billboard is from a Messianic Rabbi.
‘The irony, Schneider says, is that “the person they said ‘is not a Jew’ ... now owns the domain name https://t.co/npxXcD6WQG.”’
https://t.co/gkqHYjb0CV
every Russian dinner party has at least one PhD physicist (who against his will works as a programmer), one mathematician (who has a similar fate) and one person trained in music theory or philology(no job but has money somehow)—usually there's more—and they reenact this video.
Yesterday, Hak Ja Han, the 83-year-old wife of Sun Myung Moon and leader of the Moonies, was jailed for her role in a corruption scandal involving the ousted First Lady of South Korea. Will her friends in the GOP still back her? https://t.co/ISebUSgadR