Aaron Harrison

Aaron Harrison

@aaronmharrison.bsky.social

Walker, tea drinker, part-time pastor, full time dad, reader of spiritual writing, theology, and translated literature. advocate. I can recommend a fountain pen to you. Writing at Something Understood on substack: https://aaronmharrison.substack.com/

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Protestant reformers insisting on receiving the bread and wine for communion is the genealogy of two-factor authentication.

Jake@waveturtlejake.bsky.social

You don’t need two-factor authentication if you’re protected by the healing Blood of Christ.

No publisher has had a cover artwork arc that more closely matches A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi than Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. I mean, look at this journey.

Important to note that the backing for some of these guys (Engel) comes right from American Reformer and the Claremont Institute. They are nodes for big ideology money.

Prof. Anthea Butler@antheabutler.bsky.social

You should read this piece about Jim Crow theobros. It says a lot about the racial underpinnings that I talk about in my book White Evangelical Racism; The Politics of Morality in America. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...

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Looking at him, Jesus said “One thing you lack: go and unfriend all your followers and delete your account, and you will go viral in heaven; come, follow Me.” But the man was deeply dismayed by these words, and he went away grieving; for he was one who had many posts.

therapy will not fix you. self-medication will not fix you. working out, eating healthy and finding good hobbies will not fix you. the only thing that will fix you is a single green light, minute and far away, that might be at the end of a dock.

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

therapy will not fix you. self-medication will not fix you. working out, eating healthy and finding good hobbies will not fix you. the only thing that will fix you is finding that cursed White Whale and repaying him for yonder lost leg with sharpest iron.

My six year old can throw a baseball 36mph—with accuracy—breaking the 3 generation absence of sports giftedness in my family. His philosophy major father and English major mother are so proud of him.

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Incredible that they haven’t done a comic book/baking show called Judge Bread. When the baker’s sourdough has failed to rise he’ll say things like “that’s the yeast of your problems.”

Quick thoughts: Atonement—sacrifice itself—is the object of ambiguity at the end. If capitalism is modernity's trojan horse, what breaks the world, there's no more westward lands to go to atone. Hoping future generations will forget the violence just brings Odysseus back to the problem of the lotus.

Aaron Harrison@aaronmharrison.bsky.social

It’s Odys-seeing Time. Pics (by Willy Pogany) from A Children’s Homer, my first foray into the poem.

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Chicagoans came to the Broadview ICE facility to hold a funeral procession for the 118 people who have died at the hands of federal immigration enforcement since 2018. This comes after 52-year-old father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by ICE agents on Tuesday morning.

The “Let Them” theory of maintenance.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The Reflecting Pool has become a national metaphor. Alan Burdick, a New York Times science editor and reporter, writes why the most patriotic approach to the monument may be to let the algae take over. nyti.ms/3RjGyBY

I find it meet and right that Romans 7 is going to be read in churches across this country the day after July 4th so that some light can be shed on what's going on with the national consciousness.