peter head

evidence-based, not intoxicated with labile theoretical fluff, generally eschewing unnecessary bombast/bravado.

[Bronwyn Millar @gingerhaderach]

Our child got a phone age 11, in 2020 when she was SO lonely and isolated. We'd just moved countries and the local kids were being shits. Within 10 days she "came out" trans. We didn't know WTF was going on but when the school found out they sent us for mandatory "counselling". The 2 psychs (wearing masks on zoom) spoke with such thick Cork accents we didn't understand most of it. They then asked to speak to her alone. I listened at the door. They didn't even ask about the horrible bullying the local kids had put her through, and she spent 15 mins saying "pardon" because she couldn't understand them. Then they told us she was trans and we had to affirm or she would khs. Sent us breastbinding info and sent our GP a letter telling him to refer us to the gender clinic. They put our name down for some bizarre "Big brother" type programme where an adult trans person, a total stranger, with no clinical training, was going to pick her up and take her for an ice cream so she could talk about her feelings. We of course refused, but as the Irish CPS has a horrific reputation for removing kids whose parents don't toe the line, we were deeply uneasy about all of it. We left Ireland shortly after that, returning to South Africa, where the govt does NOT trans your kids.

We found out that she had been groomed online, on her phone on tiktok and other social media, lovebombed by ADULT groomers like Fuzzz99, Jacob Tobia and Jeffrey Marsh (If you think you might be trans, YOU ARE TRANS! Cut off any family that doesn't affirm the REAL you... etc). She begged for blockers and T, which we refused. We did the pronouns and the name change but were very firm that hormones etc were NOT on the table. Natural puberty hit like a freight train. She started wearing push up bras for the breasts she used to tell us she wanted amputated, nails, hair, make up became super NB. Noticing boys, falling in love with her body.

She's now the MOST FEMME creature imaginable, has a long term boyfriend, is fantasising about the names she wants to call the children she told us she was never going to want.

Of the 14 trans kids in the support group we joined in 2022, only ONE is still "trans" and he's a super femme, super autistic "aromantic" and "asexual" gay boy. One of the other girls now has a deep voice and facial hair and is furious at her parents for puttin her on the T she begged for - that she had said she would khs without.

We have been through absolute hell. But thank the Goddess I trusted my instincts and KNEW MY CHILD. It was a trend, a gaslighting cult, an inhuman attack on the family. We were told we were bigots for daring to question any of it. Affirm, affirm, affirm was the only avenue allowed. The mothers have their voices back now and we are NOT GOING TO SHUT UP ANY LONGER.

[peter head @petermhead]

@sccarlson it is about money

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism.

One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled.

The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy.

Meanwhile, in Cheshire.

A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain.

She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco.

To recap.

600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water.

Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food.

The shopper picks the almond.

She has been told this is the ethical position.

The aquifer would like a word.

[NT at Oxford @nt4ox]

Reminder - apply now to join us for a year's teaching in Oxford: 2026-27 Departmental Lectureship in New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology & Religion and Mansfield College. Deadline 1 June, interviews 23 June (online), start 1 September. https://t.co/g1Y4hhYhWg

[peter head @petermhead]

£27 seems quite steep.

[Peter Gurry @pjgurry]

In 1526, the Bishop of London burned copies of William Tyndale’s English NT at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, calling it a “most pernicious poison.” This summer that same church will host a special exhition for the book to mark its 500th anniversary. https://t.co/zDagfAVMKh

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

2003 Dilbert Classics Week

[peter head @petermhead]

@JosephPConlon Strongly agree

[J. Andrew Cowan @JAndrewCowan]

Job: Departmental Lecturer in New Testament (1 year) at Oxford University in the UK:

https://t.co/rlWfnVN95G

[Anglican Aesthetics @AngAesthetics]

One of my pet peeves with New Testament scholarship is how often they have to market their ideas as "oh everyone missed the point before this". It is so completely frustrating. New Perspective? "Oh everyone missed that justification means belonging to the covenant family" (nevermind you can find this in Calvin, Aquinas, and Augustine across their perspectives). "Everyone missed human being is about reflecting God." Nevermind Irenarus said "the glory of God is man fully alive" and Athanasius and Maximus and Clement beautifully discuss the restoration of creation. "People miss the point that Israel wasn't replaced, but Jesus is the true Israel and we are Israel in Him." Nevermind you can find this in the fathers too through the Reformation. "Final judgment is according to the life lived in a way the Reformation and Rome got it wrong." Nevermind that what he posits (the life lived leads to final glorification) has been amply affirmed by both Rome and the Reformation and wasnt even the real issue.

NT scholars are just notorious for marketing their ideas aa brand spanking new by downplaying those who went before. It would be so much more productive if they just acknowledge they are stepping into the waters of a conversation that precedes them and they just tried to do it accurately lol.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Graham Linehan should never have been dragged through the courts in the first place.

The real scandal is a system that wastes time on litigious nonsense driven by professional activists while serious crime goes unpunished.

We need to kill cancel culture. Free speech cannot survive if the process becomes the punishment.

This is why I asked Toby Young to review the laws that are stifling free speech so the next Conservative government can put an end to this wasting of our resources.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

In the midst of all the news today, and with Parliament prorogued, many people may not have noticed that this was the final time the hereditary peers sat in Parliament before being forced out by Labour.

I want to pay an extra special tribute to them.

Combined they had 1784 years of parliamentary experience, wisdom and service to this country. That is not something easily replaced, and it should not be casually discarded.

Most were Conservatives. All were public servants.

They have brought to public life judgment shaped over decades, deep expertise, institutional memory, and a sense of duty that has strengthened Parliament and, very often, improved legislation in ways the public will never fully see.

Their record speaks for itself. They have served in war and peace, in government and opposition, in defence, diplomacy, farming, business, science and public service. They have not merely occupied seats in the Lords, they have contributed to the life of the nation.

That is why what has happened matters. Hereditary peers are a living part of Britain’s constitutional inheritance that Labour is casually tearing up.

Labour has rubbed away another part of our heritage, not to strengthen Parliament but to replace it with political appointees, four of whom it has already had to suspend the whip from because they were so inappropriate. That contrast says rather a lot.

At a time when public trust in politics is fragile, I think it is worth saying plainly that experience, seriousness and tradition still matter. Service still matters. Duty still matters.

So today, as an era closes, I want to put on record my profound gratitude and admiration for our hereditary peers. Britain has been better governed because of them. The Conservative Party has been stronger because of them. And Parliament will be poorer without them.

Their contribution will long outlast the petty politics that has brought this moment about.

[Ameer Kotecha @Ameer_Kotecha]

The reason the bell was such a masterstroke was because it simultaneously: 1) recalled our shared WW2 struggle 2) underscored he is also King of Australia 3) highlighted the King’s role as Commander in Chief 4) had a contemporaneous link (ie AUKUS) 5) was something of genuine historical value and interest that demonstrably required thought and effort to procure 6) was made in Britain 7) played to Trump’s vanity and is something he will genuinely like.

The best gift from a British monarch to a U.S. President since the Resolute Desk

[peter head @petermhead]

This good news. There is a video about it here which is interesting too: https://t.co/PhBPYOtsb6

[Daniel M. Gurtner @DanielMGurtner]

Moulton & Milligan's "Vocabulary of the Greek Testament" is getting a much-needed update and expansion by my colleague Allan Loder @GatewaySeminary. In this 14-year project, Loder has re-examined, corrected, and updated everything, in addition to adding 937 new lexical entries.

[peter head @petermhead]

"forthcoming"

[Timothy Brookins @brookins_tim]

What’s the latest on the release of the Nestle-Aland 29? @pjgurry @tommywasserman @petermhead

[OxfordPastorate @OxfordPastorate]

Register for the book launch here: https://t.co/HBDuMcLqqL

[peter head @petermhead]

@DanielMGurtner @GatewaySeminary "Fully" updated is an "interesting" claim.

[Josh Mcloughlin @JoshMcloughlin]

Me for @Telegraph (£) on why academics are leaving UK higher ed:

1000s of jobs & courses cut
Pensions cut
Learning politicised
Low paid, precarious work
REF & Kafkaesque bureaucracy
AI undermining teaching and research
Dependence on itnl student fees
1/2

https://t.co/Ll4FwBtgD1

[Tyndale Bulletin @TyndaleBulletin]

Special item: Irina Levinskaya (1952–2025) was an outstanding Russian scholar of Classics and Biblical Studies who had a long association with Tyndale House, Cambridge (@Tyndale_House). This obituary is by Prof. Gerald Bray (@BeesonDivinity).👇https://t.co/4QS4zR6gwf

[NT at Oxford @nt4ox]

Looking ahead to an exciting Trinity Term NT Seminar: papers from Peter Head, Nicholas Moore, Jennifer Strawbridge, Samuel Tranter, Christopher Tuckett, George Westhaver, Simeon Zahl - plus the Oxbridge Graduate Biblical Studies conference on April 30 https://t.co/d0oDAynFsS

[peter head @petermhead]

Yes, definitely (having had a look just now). I confess though that I had never thought of using Hatch and Redpath as a word index to Field. Mostly I've left Hatch and Redpath behind in favour of a computer searchable text of the LXX.

[John Meade @drjohnmeade]

@petermhead I think Swete has in mind the Concordance by Hatch and Redpath, right?