Dr. Chance Bonar
@chancebonar.bsky.social
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Advisor, teacher, and writer Researching ancient Christianity, slavery, authorship, antisemitism, and the literature of the ancient Mashriq Cat dad | 🏳️‍🌈 http://chancebonar.com Books: https://bit.ly/3R8LXbo & https://bit.ly/4iMBSwy
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The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
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chancebonar.bsky.social
Got lucky I could sneak up to observe her!
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NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
chancebonar.bsky.social
Does someone happen to have access to Virginia Burris’s “Nothing is Not One: Revisiting the Ex Nihilo,” in Modern Theology?
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day I'm re-sharing the episode of @thisguysucked.com on which I spoke with host @ceaubin.bsky.social about why, even in his own day, people thought Christopher Columbus sucked.

💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #renaissance #maps #geography #cartography #empire 1/2
Christopher Columbus with Surekha Davies
Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 08/28/2025 · Subscribers Only · 1h
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The faux feminism at work here is exactly the kind of shit that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social was writing about when he wrote Elite Capture, the essay and book!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/olu...
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stephenwest.bsky.social
Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make
Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.
www.nytimes.com
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washingtonpost.com
Breaking news: MIT’s president turned down the Trump administration’s offer of priority access for federal funding, publicly releasing a letter that emphasized the elite university’s values.
MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding
MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.
wapo.st
chancebonar.bsky.social
This is such an important piece on the deliberate and systematic targeting of knowledge systems and knowledge producers
chancebonar.bsky.social
Curriculum Inquiry published a new open access article on scholasticide in Gaza & Palestinian higher ed before and during genocide

doi.org/10.1080/0362...
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trumpstaxes.com
Not sure what’s worse, how bigoted Winsome Earle-Sears is or how rude Winsome Earle-Sears is.

She literally does not believe that discriminating against gay people is discrimination…and she won’t shut up about it.
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assisiproject.com
"In a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla...
Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document
"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.
www.ncronline.org
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My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...
Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys
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tyleraking.com
The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.
premthakker.bsky.social
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."