Patrick Connelly

Tweets my own. American religious/civil rights history. Emory/UofSC alum. Fan of Arsenal FC, cursed sports teams, Mississippi gas station food, The Joshua Tree.

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

Some personal news...👀

I can't thank @heathwcarter enough for his support and encouragement to pursue a #ReligiousBio of Medgar Evers. This is only a start, but already, it's been a journey.

[Heath Carter @heathwcarter]

I am delighted to share that @PLConnelly will publish a #ReligiousBio of Medgar Evers in the @eerdmansbooks Library of Religious Biography series. The book will come complete with a foreword by @JemarTisby. Can’t wait!

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

"With the evening sun melting away across the pitch extra time arrived like one of life’s inevitabilities, like New York traffic, aimless possession, tactical Paraguayan fouls, death." 😂

[Barney Ronay @barneyronay]

Mannschafted
https://t.co/jGcWxUBbbd

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Today in 1979, you entertained yourself for 15 minutes by just saying random stuff into this fan for the voice sound effects.

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

Taking a moment to thank @MenInBlazers, @rogbennett, @rorysmith et al for how they have added to the enjoyment of this World Cup. Cheers to your exhaustive, insightful, humorous, and humanizing coverage of this delightful slice of life's rich pageant. 👏#CapeVerdeForever

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

No World Cup games until 5pm ET 😢

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

So much of the algorithm is geared toward outrage inducement and attention. But sometimes it's worth noting that no amount of platform-building, influence, or wealth is worth stooping to this level of soul-corroding, heartless degradation of those who bear the image of God.

[The Megyn Kelly Show @MegynKellyShow]

Megyn sends a message to the Haitians who lost their TPS today:

"Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That's because we filled it with our work ethic, culture, and values. You being here only dilutes it for us... GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!"

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

WHAT A MOMENT 💙

CAPE VERDE ARE THROUGH TO THE KNOCKOUT ROUNDS AT THEIR FIRST EVER WORLD CUP 🇨🇻

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

Is this a Ronaldo subtweet

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

@southernphd Beautiful story.

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

[Insert gallows humor here]

"Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control."

https://t.co/qqqBOMAgSF

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

This episode of @TheRewatchables was an all-timer. Amazing coup getting Steven Spielberg, great pairing with 2001: A Space Odyssey, but also I could listen to Spielberg talk about movies for hours.

[The Rewatchables @TheRewatchables]

New @TheRewatchables — ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ with Bill, Sean and Steven Spielberg on Spotify

https://t.co/kWPuhd7oBo

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

No one is ready for the amount of fraud that is coming.

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

Great story, amazing scenes

[Louis Dunford @LouisDunford]

The Story of The Angel ❤️

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

@BethMooreLPM @ShowCaseShabazz I loved Harper keeping Castle out of trouble after the Caruso foul 😃
https://t.co/n0VhyOetv6

[Spurs Culture @SpursCulture]

Harper looking out for his brother

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

confirmed: the Salesian Sisters are back for Game 6 🤍🖤

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

And the very next line feels like a nod to Middlemarch:

“The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization.”

[Patrick Connelly @PLConnelly]

Sonny Rollins, colossus of the saxophone, has died at 95
https://t.co/TIgt2OPZBX

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

The Monk-Goalkeeper, Madrid, Spain, 1959, by Ramón Masats

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

I'm grateful to @DouthatNYT for inviting me on his podcast to discuss the fate of the liberal arts and humanities in the age of AI. I hope that all those who follow higher ed and care about the liberal arts will listen.

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