Dion Forster

Prof of Public Theology, @VUAmsterdam writer, runner, friend, VLOG PHD Sys Theol ('06) & PHD New Testament ('17) Views my own.

[Dion Forster @digitaldion]

Thanks for following! Please drop me a note if you have the time - I’d love to hear from you! Please check here for copies of all of my books: https://t.co/SqZLzBAWuB

[Dion Forster @digitaldion]

AI is not only a technical question, it is a deeply human one.

In this new Substack post, I offer a first theological engagement with Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas and ask what it means to remain human in an age of AI.

https://t.co/Pla7VMDOZy

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I am working remotely this week while visiting the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, I have some human and non-human co-workers this morning! ❤️🐶

My doggies would love to visit the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam when I am back! #RemoteWork #Coworkers

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‘The proportions of good and evil in any society depend partly upon the proportion of consent to that of refusal and partly upon the distribution of power between those who consent and those who refuse.’

- Simone Weil, Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation.

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Somerset West you beauty! I only ran slow to take in the view 🤣��� My old running route was amazing!

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Cape Town you beauty! Ah, such a blessing to be with our friends and family in Somerset West!

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Every scholar speaks from somewhere. Good scholarship learns to listen from elsewhere.

I’d value your thoughts on my latest Substack article on interculturality and contextually on Theology and Religion research:

https://t.co/cBHl7EkrKG

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It is a beautiful day on the campus of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam! My Systematic Theology and Contemporary Theology students are writing their first exams today! I arrived early to prepare the room for them. Please say a little prayer for them, and their examiner!

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A blessed Pentecost, and Aldersgate Sunday!

In Wesleyan and Methodist circles the 24th of May is remembered as Aldersgate Day. It was a significant turning point in 1738, in the life and spiritual journey of John Wesley. Attached is an extract from his journal on this day.

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What does Christian hope require when the past is not past?

A new reflection on reparative memory, concrete justice, and realistic hope, asking how churches, theologians, and Christians might act across the publics of church, academy, and society.

https://t.co/8OIVQGDm5C

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Please join me in wishing the love of my life, my darling Megan a blessed and happy birthday! 🎉🎁🎂🎈🎊

We love you so, so much Megie! Thank you for who you are! You are a gift!!! We love you! Happy Birthday our legend!

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Today is Liam’s very last day of High School!

He writes his final Mathematics paper this morning, and then he is done!

Wow! Primary school, through Covid, a great High School, the move to the Netherlands, and International Baccalaureate at International School Laren! 🙏

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A blessed Ascension Day to my Christian friends - we are tasked, trusted, and empowered to work and serve for blessing, justice, wholeness, and love for all!

For more about this Cameroonian painting, see https://t.co/esl0WYGDle

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And so the conference on Testimony, Confession, Truth comes to an end! It was amazing to listen, to learn, to ‘turn to one another’. Thanks Frederike van Oorschot and Hannar Reichel for an amazing event with remarkable people! Now, the train(s) back to Amsterdam and my darlings!

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A beautiful morning! I am on my way to Zurich by train to participate in a conference on Testimony - Confession - Truth. I was asked to speak on ‘Confessing as theo-political act? Learnings from the anti-apartheid movement.’ I am very grateful and looking forward to learning.

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Where is the church on Monday?

For Workers’ Day, I reflect on faith, work, vocation, dignity, and the common good. Work is never merely economic. It is spiritual, moral, social, and deeply theological.

https://t.co/Gtv2ny7Zqu #Substack #work #mayday #theology

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Happy Worker’s day to all who work, to those who long to work but cannot, to those who are doing their dream job, and to those who feel stuck, and who work to survive.

Can our work have a deeper meaning?

https://t.co/fTsDrmsFdM

#Theology #WorkersDay #Work

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May the 4th be with you! 😝🙌

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Prof Dirkie Smit, one of my dear mentors and later a colleague at Stellenbosch University, gave his retirement lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary last week.

It is a beautiful, challenging, deep and rich theology.

It is well worth watching!

https://t.co/mYWjxJMqr6

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#oldmanrunning Freedom Day 🇿🇦 Koningsdag 🇳🇱

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'This distance between how we live and what we know to be true is painful and tempts us to change the truth rather than change our lives.’

- Hauerwas, Stanley. The Character of Virtue: Letters to a Godson.