Lisa Ann Cockrel
@lacockrel.bsky.social
Acquisitions @ Eerdmans. Ed Board @ Image Journal. Wishing I was reading a book instead.
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Lisa Ann Cockrel
@lacockrel.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Why Christians Should Be Leftists
The Sermon on the Mount offers a rousing call to political solidarity—if only we have ears to hear it. Being a Christian and being a socialist go toge...
www.eerdmans.com
Humble Q: How do I get @philipchristman.bsky.social's forthcoming book in the hands of every Dem operative in the country? Even if you're not personally down with JC, being able to cast a POSITIVE vision for leftist politics that resonates with Christian values seems mmm smart. Strategic even.
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BREAKING: Britain appointed Sarah Mullally as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been named leader of the Church of England in the 1,400 year history of the role reut.rs/46RSbE6
October 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
BREAKING: Britain appointed Sarah Mullally as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been named leader of the Church of England in the 1,400 year history of the role reut.rs/46RSbE6
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We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.
It’s @philipchristman.bsky.social day! Celebrate by listening to an interview about his new book *Why Christians Should Be Leftists* and picking up your own copy via your favorite purveyor of fine literature. 💪🏼
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @philipchristman.bsky.social on to talk about his book Why Christians Should Be Leftists www.patreon.com/posts/139047...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s @philipchristman.bsky.social day! Celebrate by listening to an interview about his new book *Why Christians Should Be Leftists* and picking up your own copy via your favorite purveyor of fine literature. 💪🏼
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I love this bit of good old Chicago boosterism mixed in with Fugitive Slave Law defiance. Hope it becomes a regular feature: "The man-stealers will only violate our liberties over my dead body, which would then be interred in scenic Graceland Cemetery."
Pritzker: Neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level has the authority to arrest these Texas Democrats
They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.
They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.
August 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I love this bit of good old Chicago boosterism mixed in with Fugitive Slave Law defiance. Hope it becomes a regular feature: "The man-stealers will only violate our liberties over my dead body, which would then be interred in scenic Graceland Cemetery."
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On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
August 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
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Books.
Quote this with a technology that gives you hope about the future
July 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Books.
EVERYBODY-VS.-PHIL-AT-BOOK-TRIVIAL-PURSUIT
if you preorder now and send me a jpg of the receipt + your email address (dm is fine), you will get:
--a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so
--an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)
--a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so
--an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)
Preorder now: www.eerdmans.com/978080288405....
Why Christians Should Be Leftists
by Phil Christman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
229 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
HARDCOVER
9780802884053
Publication Date: September 16, 2025
Why Christians Should Be Leftists
by Phil Christman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
229 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
HARDCOVER
9780802884053
Publication Date: September 16, 2025
July 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
EVERYBODY-VS.-PHIL-AT-BOOK-TRIVIAL-PURSUIT
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Chicago Public Library is developing its next five year plan and they are collecting feedback via a very long but well-designed survey.
Chicago Public Library Community Survey 2025
The Chicago Public Library is reimagining how our spaces, collections, and programs can best serve the people of Chicago—and we need your input.
gensler.qualtrics.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Chicago Public Library is developing its next five year plan and they are collecting feedback via a very long but well-designed survey.
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32 years ago, a student asked me how I knew what to read? I revisited my answer.
"Look over your bookshelves or even the last five books you’ve read. Is there a pattern? What is the pattern?" querent.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
“How do you know what to read?”
A question from a student in 1993 that I could keep answering.
querent.substack.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
32 years ago, a student asked me how I knew what to read? I revisited my answer.
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As big as the Mamdani win is, Landers ascent is in some ways even more significant for the national Democratic Party.
Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
June 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
As big as the Mamdani win is, Landers ascent is in some ways even more significant for the national Democratic Party.
Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
Last night was a good night for NYC and for my beleaguered WNBA teams. (Valks not pictured. And not all that beleaguered.)
June 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Last night was a good night for NYC and for my beleaguered WNBA teams. (Valks not pictured. And not all that beleaguered.)
Humble Q: How do I get @philipchristman.bsky.social's forthcoming book in the hands of every Dem operative in the country? Even if you're not personally down with JC, being able to cast a POSITIVE vision for leftist politics that resonates with Christian values seems mmm smart. Strategic even.
Why Christians Should Be Leftists
The Sermon on the Mount offers a rousing call to political solidarity—if only we have ears to hear it. Being a Christian and being a socialist go toge...
www.eerdmans.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Humble Q: How do I get @philipchristman.bsky.social's forthcoming book in the hands of every Dem operative in the country? Even if you're not personally down with JC, being able to cast a POSITIVE vision for leftist politics that resonates with Christian values seems mmm smart. Strategic even.
Really wishing I could listen in on the conversation Edmund White and Walter Brueggemann are having today.
June 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Really wishing I could listen in on the conversation Edmund White and Walter Brueggemann are having today.
Wow. I chose the best day to check in on Blue Sky. It’s like finding the perfect use for that weird dooohicky you kept in the drawer for years that will justify never getting rid of a doohickey ever again.
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. I chose the best day to check in on Blue Sky. It’s like finding the perfect use for that weird dooohicky you kept in the drawer for years that will justify never getting rid of a doohickey ever again.
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I am so grateful to @roxanegay.bsky.social for accepting this piece in the Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series, and to @megpillow.bsky.social for her superb edits. Earlier edits from @lacockrel.bsky.social and @laceyj.bsky.social helped make this what it is. Please enjoy.
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Fullness
Emerging Writer Series
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May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I am so grateful to @roxanegay.bsky.social for accepting this piece in the Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series, and to @megpillow.bsky.social for her superb edits. Earlier edits from @lacockrel.bsky.social and @laceyj.bsky.social helped make this what it is. Please enjoy.
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We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.
Online radicalisation of elites is a significant and yet poorly understood aspect of contemporary politics.
Holy shit, when Richard Hanania is not far enough right for you. Would love to hear what US Senators and prominent bloggers doing appearances with Andreessen think.
April 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.
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mass schooling and mass literacy are beautifully complex and unlikely and easily destroyed things, and, like all beautiful, complex, and easily destroyed things, they arouse a deep atavistic destructive urge in lots of people, across the political spectrum
a surprising thing about the past decade of “heterodox” free speech on campus pieces is how few of them voiced support for better teaching conditions and more robust funding of public liberal education
April 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
mass schooling and mass literacy are beautifully complex and unlikely and easily destroyed things, and, like all beautiful, complex, and easily destroyed things, they arouse a deep atavistic destructive urge in lots of people, across the political spectrum
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"The Democratic party has more to learn from Alexei Navalny or the protesters in Serbia than it does from Chuck Schumer or strategists obsessing over message-testing crosstabs."
Important @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...
Important @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...
How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
www.thebulwark.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"The Democratic party has more to learn from Alexei Navalny or the protesters in Serbia than it does from Chuck Schumer or strategists obsessing over message-testing crosstabs."
Important @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...
Important @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...
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We are politically a democracy — or should I say that we are an oligarchy with its ranks ever open to talent?
—Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
—Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
March 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We are politically a democracy — or should I say that we are an oligarchy with its ranks ever open to talent?
—Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
—Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
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This role of Trump that Bouie identifies here—on identity and relational attachment—seems like it has theological valiance. Namely this is what it would mean for Trump to be anti-Christ
the fact that the husband in this story doesn’t appear to regret his choices at all is mind-boggling to me. tens of millions of americans have linked their very sense of identity to trump such that it overrides every other attachment.
This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
March 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This role of Trump that Bouie identifies here—on identity and relational attachment—seems like it has theological valiance. Namely this is what it would mean for Trump to be anti-Christ
Et tu, @southwestairlines.bsky.social?😭 — seen at DEN this morning
March 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Et tu, @southwestairlines.bsky.social?😭 — seen at DEN this morning
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Book sales comprised 1% of my earnings last year. This is typical for many writers, especially those traditionally publishing.
At AWP in LA this year, I'm moderating a panel where writers will be transparent about their earnings. Mark your calendars: 10:35 a.m. on Sat, March 29, Bookfair stage.
At AWP in LA this year, I'm moderating a panel where writers will be transparent about their earnings. Mark your calendars: 10:35 a.m. on Sat, March 29, Bookfair stage.
March 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Book sales comprised 1% of my earnings last year. This is typical for many writers, especially those traditionally publishing.
At AWP in LA this year, I'm moderating a panel where writers will be transparent about their earnings. Mark your calendars: 10:35 a.m. on Sat, March 29, Bookfair stage.
At AWP in LA this year, I'm moderating a panel where writers will be transparent about their earnings. Mark your calendars: 10:35 a.m. on Sat, March 29, Bookfair stage.