David B. Gowler

David B. Gowler

@dgowler.bsky.social

Pierce Chair of Religion, Oxford College/Emory University. Books: Howard Thurman & the Quest for Community; The Parables after Jesus; WATSA Parables?; WATSA Historical Jesus?; James Through the Centuries; & Howard Thurman, Sermons on the Parables. #COYS!

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There are credible allegations of rape against the president, and evidence his administration has taken steps to cover up his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile. This story is being covered more aggressively by People Magazine than the NY Times, Wash Post, or Wall St Journal.

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Especially if you live in Dekalb, Cobb, or Gwinnett Counties— A third-party vendor has caused a delay in as many as 10,000 voters receiving ballots. If haven't received your absentee ballot yet, please consider voting in person. 🙏

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Y’all. I’ve seen the heartbreaks of Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter. I felt the burn of a Stacey Abrams loss. And I’ve felt the energy before Biden, Warnock, and Ossoff victories. I can feel this one in my bones. Good things are coming to Georgia.

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🗣️ Harry Kane on winning the Ballon d'Or. "I am almost speechless. "To all my England teammates... it was an honour to captain and lead you. "I want to say thank you to Tottenham Hotspur. I wouldn't be where I am here today without Tottenham.”

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A recent post by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Oleksandra Matviichuk@avalaina.bsky.social

In this stroller, there is now nothing but a bloody pulp. This is all that remains of the baby after today’s Russian shelling of a park in the Kharkiv region. #MadeByPutin #FinancedByTrump

"I think I'm lucky because I have great players & great people. When you work with smart people, sensitive people, they already know what we need to do to be better. To improve the situation, to change the situation. We have many, many great guys on the dressing room. I think the credit is for them"

Alasdair Gold@alasdairgold.bsky.social

Here's every word De Zerbi just said on Spurs' special meeting, the two players who played their best game for him, the latest on James Maddison's injury, his thoughts on Mateus Fernandes, Mathys Tel, breaking the Chelsea hoodoo and plenty more. www.football.london/tottenham-ho...

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Player that gets kicked all game goes off injured. Opposition go unpunished. Again. Another tale as old as time when playing Tottenham.

Lack of empathy: Important fact about white evangelicals and one of the many reasons I wrote about the importance of Howard Thurman and how he envisioned, as Jesus did, we should move from prodigals to compassionate Samaritans: www.paulistpress.com/bookproduct/...

paulistpress.comHoward Thurman and the Quest for Community - Paulist PressDavid Gowler integrates parable scholarship with extensive research on Howard Thurman's life and writings to explore how Thurman's insights about the Prodigal Son and Good Samaritan parables provide a...
PRRI@prri.org

"As Christian nationalist leaders attack the sentiment of empathy, a disturbing 'empathy gap' has opened, separating Republicans and white evangelicals from most other Americans," says @robertpjones.bsky.social, examining new AVS findings. Read more:

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NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

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In my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.

Opinion: If AI is now part of academic writing, what should institutions actually evaluate? This essay argues that analytical writing should be judged by evidence, structure, argument, and accountability not by guesses about how each sentence was produced. https://chroni.cl/4eDRdjg

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If Kansas millennials stopped wasting money on frilly lattes and avocado toast, they’d be able to afford a lawyer when they’re sued by their United States senator.

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Two thoughts: This false, despicable ad is proof that Vivek Ramaswamy knows he is about to lose to Amy Acton. No mother who loves her daughter would do this. Her complicity reveals her.

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Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas. He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. He’s trying to buy Texas. But on November 3rd, we’ll deliver a clear message to the world’s first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.