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Ben Menghini
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🧀 Workin' on my Night Cheese 🧀 | PhD candidate in Theology at Emmanuel College/University of Toronto | he/him
An #aarsbl for the books. So much time with so many wonderful people and too few pictures.
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Emma and I carried around this "tome" gifted to her by an esoteric "nun" outside the convention center all weekend (it was so heavy I started to get back pain).
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Presenting God's Gifts and Divine Reception for the Divine Sovereignty and Human Liberation panel on the final day of AAR.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
How senior scholars look at me after I deliver my paper I wrote at my gate in the airport.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Boston bound #aarsbl

"Love you guys." —my bus driver
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Talking about postliberals vs post-liberals and dodging questions about Hauerwas last week at the Toronto School of Theology conference.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Back in Toronto
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Dissertation submitted for defense.
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
September 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
He's stuck on me like my shadow
September 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.
September 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Blake got a day off, so I'm revising in the park while she colors.
August 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Day 2 of revising my reverse outline in the dealership waiting room. Can't wait to come back tomorrow.
August 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
He's on to me.
August 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Locked in.
July 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
At least I have good company with my co-author.
July 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

—Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Henry Daubrez | A Storm is Coming
June 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Work day
June 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Amoako Boafo | Body Politics 2 | 2016
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
June 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
June 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
There is definitely a discourse around finishing a PhD which emphasizes "just get it done" and "a good dissertation is a finished dissertation," but that has not been my experience at all. The first image is the joke, but the second is a better reflection of what my supervisor is expecting.
May 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Almost finished with your dissertation?"
May 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM