J. Scott Jackson

"The first place to look for Christ is in hell." ~ William Stringfellow.
I'm exploring the principalities & powers, dialectical theologies, & the Catholic left.

[J. Scott Jackson @jsjackson15]

"'Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.' And they marvelled at him."... I owe to a student mentor in grad school (whom I won't call out here) the suggestion that this is a rare case in the Gospels of our Lord cracking a joke.

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I'm trying to remind myself each day that, no matter how powerful, rich, and seemingly impregnable you might become, one thing you can never do is turn lies into truths by sheer fiat or willpower. The truth will out, whether any of us grasp or acknowledge it at all.

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Michael's is advertizing trees for St. Andrew's Day. (Folks, with the octave of All Saints now concluded, it's time to pack away your All Saints Trees and move on to the next occasion). But will we manage to get our St. Andrew's Day tree up by the end of the month?

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It seems fitting that an account of this very sad and disturbing story -- and a true one, at that! -- would go live on Halloween.

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In 1991, religion scholar Ioan Petru Culianu was murdered at the University of Chicago. Bruce Lincoln explores whether this killing was related to Culianu’s controversial mentor, Mircea Eliade.

Review by @jsjackson15:
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New DET post from WTM. Check it out!

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@irishfabian @WTravisMcMaken Nice to get credit for something! Maybe I should hang out on this website more often. (Our safe little corner of it, at any rate.) I'm discovering that it's easier to write a book review than an actual book.

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Sat down, randomly, at the Northampton public library computer terminal named for Jonathan Edwards, with a book on Edwards in my hand. No doubt all because of absolute divine sovereignty.

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Overall, a winsome and engage entree into Kierkegaard's life and thought. https://t.co/nZUdLgAoMh

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@DouginCanberra @simonbarrow Yes! I agree. His calling out the "Babel" of the regime takes on added poignancy in the AI age.

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@mikeets14 Thanks!

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I'm excited (& also a little bit nervous) to announce I've received an offer from Wipf & Stock to publish a monograph on William Stringfellow's theology! This project is a long time in coming. Stay tuned for more details.

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@collincornell1 Thanks!

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Bishops Stand with Haitian Immigrants https://t.co/HDhEuDBbB3 via @The Living Church

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About midway between the time of Jonathan Edwards & Bill Stringfellow, Sojourner Truth moved in about 3 miles from here to live in an abolitionist commune & work at a silk factory in the village of Florence, MA. That makes three consequential N. American theologians in this town.

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200 years before Bill Stringfellow moved here, another young theologian settled on the other end of our neigborhood. His homestead is long long, but the area is marked today as "Edward's Square," just a couple blocks away from the cemetery where his daughter Jerusha is buried.

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@irishfabian That doesn't surprise me! I'm developing a project or two on his work. (More details to come soon....). I look forward to getting your feedback.

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I just learned (from US Census records) that, as a child, the lawyer-theologian William Stringfellow (1929-1985) lived in my neighborhood in Northampton, MA -- in two houses, just blocks away. Folks, this has blown my mind.

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@irishfabian Yeah, lots of health problems. It's kind of amazing that he survived as long as he did, given his extremely painful delibitating condition.