Joel Harrison

Chaplain Intern | Religion, music, and baseball | Co-host of @uswithoutthem | Vinyl collection on IG: undrgrnd_vinyl | He/him/his | Opinions mine

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

@Pads1818 Of course a Padres fan would say something this utterly stupid 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

@daily_braves @DaMookShow It’s not good though? You’re desperate to hate Kershaw but you’re just wrong about Verlander being the better pitcher and you’re grasping at a difference that ultimately won’t matter

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

In fact, a DIY ethos is one of the only tools we have to resist commodification of things that really should not be commodified. Whatever you can do for yourself rather than “solve through consumption,” you resist the commodification of the abstract especially.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

A friend at seminary (in 2010) asked me what I thought would happen once the things “hipsters” were into became commodified and popular. I remember telling him that for the people who were genuinely embedded in the related subcultures, nothing.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

Everything hipsters were into 15 years ago went mainstream. You can buy raw denim at Uniqlo. Target has vinyl records. Your corner store has craft beer. Right wing chuds dress like urban lesbians and graphic designers did in 2010. Everyone drinks fancy coffee now. They won.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

I remember he was specifically concerned about the concepts of “craft,” “artisan,” “handmade,” etc. It’s true that those have been thoroughly commodified in all kinds of annoying, dumb ways, but that also doesn’t preclude people from continuing to DIY.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

[Blond @BlondB00]

I cannot help but feel, after reading Jung, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Camus, Meister Eckhart, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Krishnamurti, that they all are saying essentially the same thing: the goal is individual responsibility; the goal is a radical self-maxxing.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

@KingdomeGhost @Munch3102 @RangerApologist @TalkinBaseball_ “Can’t draft for shit”

The Dodgers have had a top 10 farm system for years.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

@sdubya3 @SunValleyKing @jjcoop36 Because that’s how deferred contracts work? The value of when it starts getting paid out (2035) is how they determine what counts against the CBT now. If you don’t know how deferrals work in MLB, maybe you shouldn’t be as mad as you are about them.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

RIP President Carter 🇺🇸

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

The 19th c. gothic feel of the film could’ve been so easily overdone, and even though the look and sound is cranked to 11 for most of the film, it never really feels forced or over the top. Just a really impressive piece of filmmaking.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

Today was my birthday and I usually see a movie. This year was Nosferatu. Eggers has such an incredible handle on how to generate the atmosphere that a particular story calls for. The cinematography and sound design are always particularly on point.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

The latter is something most people tend not to think about watching a movie but Eggers has sound design aspects in all of his films that sort of grab you by the face and demand you listen. And I really love that about them. It’s probably my favorite aspect of his films.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

@RealJRHughes @MariainVallejo @HPPIV @raibooker03 @masonmennenga I have a PhD in religious studies and can tell you that’s 100% not true (that NPP is widely rejected).

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

@newvangelicals Honestly super weird to live in CA but pretend she doesn’t know there are tons of conservatives everywhere except the two major cities. There’s a Trump merchandise store in the outlet mall in the town I live in. I moved here from rural VA and never saw anything like that. 🤣

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

this kind of serious sexual transgression. And those in the out group who are accused of anything that doesn’t conform to evangelical politics aren’t sinners who can be redeemed. They’re a party to a Satanic force that’s beyond redemption.

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

Willie Jennings has a really interesting essay on a similar logic among the Spanish conquistadors in the 17th c. regarding indigenous people. The latter held the wrong relationship to the land; therefore they were susceptible to being penetrated by demonic forces. The former, as

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

Okay, so here's the thing.
In the historical tradition, and in the global scene, evangelicalism is a diverse movement, and I'm not speaking about the whole field (which continues to shape my theology).
But in American evangelicalism right now, in the way you will primarily see

[Joel Harrison @ProfJHarrison]

demonic relation to land outweighed any other consideration. The difference now is that there doesn’t seem to be any notion of “sin” at all. A pastor who grooms and rapes a congregant just… didn’t? In-group evangelicals are incapable of sinning at all. At least when it comes to