Dominic Parker

History-nerd, former Oxford theologian, Africa-champion, dog-dad. Claims to be a good cook; other opinions available. Views my own.

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

@4i20Luizinho_13 Love this. Really do.

But why are we adding more letters to our acronym? We now might just as well recite the alphabet.

LGB+
LGBT+
LGBTQ+
LGBTQI+
LGBTQIA+
LGBTQIAP+
LGBTQIAPN+

I support our community, really, but doesn’t the + mean we don’t each have to find our own letter?

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@LBC @lewis_goodall And this is why the Tories are a dying party. Adopting the, “attack the interviewer for asking questions I can’t answer” from the US.

Remind them they are public servants, not public authoritarians. Don’t say “we’re going round in circles” if they can’t explain views clearly.

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@ceanomario155 @TrueJohn_Lauro I have a feeling that @TrueJohn_Lauro may have a hard time differentiating between the sermon on the mount, socialism, liberation theology and political Marxism.

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@CNN_NewsNight Hahaha. I love the fact that they think he’s “in charge of the free world”.

The USA has fallen very far from that position. Very far.

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https://t.co/XLqRN73OX4

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

The are only 2 pieces of archaeological evidence of crucifixion from the Roman Era. And both are nails in heel bones

One is from Jerusalem and the other is from 3,500 km away in Cambridgeshire, England.

Yet we know that the Romans crucified tens of thousands of people.

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

2,000 years on, we can barely understand the physical and psychological horror of crucifixion.

If you would like to know more about what archaeology tells us about what Jesus endured, take a look at my article at "Theology, Reconsidered" - link in bio and below.

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

That transformation from an instrument of state terror to the central symbol of a global faith—whether you do or don’t believe—is one of the most extraordinary reversals in human history.

Find out more on my substack: Theology, Reconsidered.

(Link in Bio)

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The early Christians took the most shameful death the Roman world could devise and made it the centre of everything they believed.

Paul didn't pretend this wasn't absurd: "We proclaim Christ crucified — a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles."

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

Find out more about the reality of a crucifixion and—using archaeology, forensic medicine, historical analysis and reviews of New Testament texts—the excruciating violence that Jesus was subject to in his last 18 hours.

Visit the link in my bio for more.

Theology, Reconsidered.

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

A happy Easter to those celebrating.

The resurrection is central to the Christian Faith but without the crucifixion and the theological purpose of the sacrifice, the resurrection is nothing.

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

Yet two thousand years on, and we are divorced from the horror of this method of excommunication.

The cross is a symbol—a brand logo—and we have no concept of its physical and psychological trauma.

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https://t.co/swcU9dDxTS

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

In 2017, archaeologists in a Cambridgeshire village found a two-inch iron nail driven through a man’s heel bone.

It was the first evidence of Roman crucifixion ever found in northern Europe.

A thread on what crucifixion actually involved — and why we’ve forgotten. 🧵

[Dominic Parker @ShushBrain]

I’ve written a long-form piece examining the arrest, trials, crucifixion, and death of Jesus through the evidence — archaeological, medical, and textual.

It’s the first publication from Theology, Reconsidered — written for the curious, whether they believe or not.