Casper ter Kuile

Author of The Power of Ritual. Singer of sad sailer songs.

[Casper ter Kuile @caspertk]

Your anger is holy << my latest piece for @voxdotcom featuring the wisdom of @LamaRod1 @NajeebaSyeed and Nate DeGroot

https://t.co/IVTmm3k6oo

[Joshwelt @weltszzn]

Do you remember when radio stations used to give away concert tickets and backstage passes? | just heard a midday radio giveaway, and now the prizes are groceries, a year of gas, or rent paid. It's a strange reminder that survival has become the prize. That's pretty sad.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Mamdani’s Halloween plans for NYC are fantastic 🎃

The city is opening a record 160 car-free streets and plazas across all five boroughs for free Halloween fun, with trick-or-treating, games, face painting, live entertainment and even neighborhood walking tours. NYC DOT is handing out 75,000 pieces of candy, and there’ll be events at public schools too.

Safe streets, happy kids and neighborhoods coming together. This is what it looks like when city government makes public spaces work for everyone. Great stuff for New York!

[brent 🌹🗽 @BrentInQueens]

American decline in a single sentence

[MEYER @dahvnyc]

she is an obama/mamdani level political talent

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year?

And this year, for the first time in nearly two decades, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 to up to $10,000 per artist!

Deadlines are approaching fast so don't wait. Go to https://t.co/y7YcGwCgXc to apply today!

[GOŁƊ @vidxn_]

NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:

"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.

You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."

[Casper ter Kuile @caspertk]

I wrote about Fire Island and John Calvin and why they are kinda connected through a queer theology of belonging :) https://t.co/nfEbyIrqeH

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

James Baldwin, what a line

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

i'm convinced burnout has nothing to do with 'working too hard' and everything to do with betraying yourself for an extended period of time

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham issues a diagnosis of Britain

"The British right talk about taking back control, NEVER let them forget that they are the ones that gave it away in the first place"

[Matt Herdman @MattHerdman]

Can’t emphasize how much your life will improve if you put in even a small amount of effort to host things regularly.

Dont like cooking for dinner parties?
board game night
in person book club
movie night
poker night
whatever it is you do, invite people to join you doing it

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I think we have a problem

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

As details about the Cornell 7 come out, it’s once again time to remember that less than 2% of rapists see jail time, which means: rape is effectively legal in America.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to https://t.co/LpKzEcL0V5 to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

So this is what electing a democratic socialist mayor can get you: corporations issuing groveling apologies for underpaying their workers

[Casper ter Kuile @caspertk]

Such a lovely project https://t.co/qHesYuSKAm

[Vox @voxdotcom]

There’s an unexpected power to prayer, even if you don’t believe in God. The key to unlocking these benefits? Honest speech. @caspertk writes about this and more in his monthly Vox column, Soul Searching.

Read it and become a member today: https://t.co/pJxPtytGQF

[Casper ter Kuile @caspertk]

So looking forward to this!

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Every year I help organize a large conference called Restore. Imagine a Christian TED festival with heapings of music and art. This year’s gathering is next week, September 24-26 at Utah Valley University.

The lineup this year is phenomenal. A few sessions I’m especially excited for are:

@mckaycoppins on the transhumanist theology of the tech bros

Tara Isabella Burton on finding Christ in our age of religious remixing

Mallory Everton on how faith alchemizes tragedy

Steven Nelson of The Piano Guys previewing his new musical on the abolition of the slave trade

Casper ter Kuile on how to build a ritual life

Plus talks on spiritual imagination, UFO’s, building Zion, giving up smartphones, and the dawning of a new spiritual renaissance

I’d love for you to join me. You can register at https://t.co/hIAZd01OHm and get 20% off by using the code ZACH. And if you want to come and the cost is a barrier, just message me.