Mark Porter
Sometimes post about my research (music/religion/ecology), sometimes about other things.
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- Better blacklist their future film appearances
- This event really makes the connection between the worship music industry and Christian nationalism pretty unavoidable
- So the schools on my island have gone from cutting back on extracurricular music as I grew up to now using music in a way that can be compared to "the TV drama Squid Game, where contestants play lethal rounds of musical statues" leaving an autistic student petrified www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- "we noticed how depressing your writing seems to be at the moment"
- Such a tempting way to buy an ebook
- Theoretically I'm behind projects like Libreoffice. In practice, I need it to stop doing things like this before it feels usable.
- "we're your bank, please talk to our AI about your personal data" just seems an incredibly bad idea.
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- I'm wondering whether the reassignment of the property may not have been the best idea
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- I'm trying to figure out 1) why their expenditure went up so heavily in recent years 2) what exactly was going on between them and the Graham Dacre foundation.
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- probably a few vicars that would still benefit from reading this
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- There's an England/Spain extra time/bishop of Fulham mashup meme to be done somewhere.
- Disappointed in whoever reverted this wikipedia image edit
- New book chapter…
- Is Ocado some kind of undercover vampire conspiracy?
- Another lovely review of the book in @readingreligion.bsky.social readingreligion.org/978033406568...
- The draft programme for this year's Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference: congregationalmusic.org/programme
- Frustrating how no-one ever cites the publications that would boost my h-index. I just want one or two more citations of a couple of the less-popular articles... it can't be that hard.
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- You think I don’t already ;)
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- then they just all bus to the mines though
- Such an interesting claim (from a doctoral thesis by Melanie L. Williams).
- Nice review of my @scmpress.bsky.social book in the latest issue of @greenchristian.org.uk magazine
- Not the worst choice of nickname
- I'm giving a Lecture in Heidelberg on 12th May as part @sfb1671.bsky.social www.sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de/en/node/625
- Service this morning decided we’re going to celebrate the fact that orthodox and western churches have Easter on the same date this year by praying the creed that we all share in common with the Filioque 🙈🙈
- New blog post... "Thing with Feathers or Sewer Rat? Approaches to Christian Hope in Times of Crisis" www.uni-erfurt.de/en/katholisc...
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- We send the EU $350 bn a week. Let's fund our coal industry instead.
- Spending a couple of months in Heidelberg as a guest of @sfb1671.bsky.social. Definitely picked the right time of year to be here.
- Stock markets feel so weird. With a lot of things you'd look at a figure of 3% and decide it's small enough that it doesn't really matter. Equally, the idea that things are back how they were about a year ago doesn't usually feel like the worst thing to happen. Apparently here it's different.
- Now I’m wondering what the women’s institute Supreme Court gets up to
- Are most american scholars experiencing cuts to their travel funding right now?
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- Maybe this is the right context to be thinking about the way that prophets in the charismatic movement have used Facebook to datamine personal information for prophecies and to use the authority they establish through that to prophecy about politics
- Posting that all your books can be found on libgen is beginning to feel a little like a marketing device at this point
- How are there so many academics that are discovering libgen for the first time through the Atlantic? Is it because they always worked at rich institutions that always had the library resources they needed?
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- Ok, but as a researcher I generally find it a good thing when my work appears there. It enables access to people who need it and can't get behind the paywalls.
- My review of Cristina Rocha's book, Cool Christianity, for Politics, Religion & Ideology www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JDKGX...
- I wrote a contribution to this volume on Amazing Grace – thinking about two different pandemic performances and the contexts and agendas surrounding them www.routledge.com/Amazing-Grac...
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- From dust we come, to dust we return fleeting, like the wind, the wind which is the breath of God, the breath from which which we come and by which we shall return, to the face of our creator
- Fairly uncomfortable with the idea of an era of rearmament. Maybe some kind of investment in defence is important, but this doesn't feel like an idea or narrative that is heading somewhere good.
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- This is the first time I've had to promise that I'm not a scientologist in order to sign a work contract
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- doesn't do it for me. Shows a couple of posts and gives the chance to expand the rest.
- Short (open access) piece from me in this month's issue of Theology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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- Definitely
- That’s essentially what I do anyway on the Brussels to Frankfurt route, checking the recent data on Zugfinder.net
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- I'm not convinced that's quite true. Some organisations/institutions do have the courage to reinvent themselves in the face of decline. Probably not the majority, but certainly not none at all.
