Nikayla Reize

I have a substack! I will no longer haunt my conservative relatives on Facebook with my elegance and wit but I *could* haunt your inbox. Free tier: homiletic wonders of insight and wisdom $15 tier: NT PhD research that is much cooler than that sounds nikaylareize.substack.com

Studying modern genre theory is a bit like studying modern gender theory. Just like texts don't "belong" to a genre but rather "participate in genre", I don't "belong" to a gender category.....I participate in a complex gender category". #PhDthoughtsonTuesday

Hi, PhD student here, Why do all the commentators pre-1990 use roman numerals instead of numbers? Is it a typewriter thing? Signed, someone googling, "Isa. xl-lxvi" again

@PrestonSprinkle 12 male *circumcised* apostles. But in Acts 15, the church broke with tradition and celebrated the full inclusion of uncircumcised people into leadership.

Question: What are the best treatments of the argument (for and against) that the 12 male apostles supports a complementation view of women in church leadership? (Books, chapters, articles, etc.)

I know several couples who've had to have this talk. Some marriages survived. Some did not. Can anyone here relate to this story?

@LovesSardine @TylerHuckabee Be concerned then.

@NikaylaReize @TylerHuckabee The fact you feel comfortable just making things up like this is concerning

let’s table meg’s argument that hungry people = pigeons, which falls apart after three seconds of critical thinking anyway. what IS going on in that 2 thessalonians verse? seems kind of mean, doesn’t it? is paul really telling us not to feed the jobless? well, let’s take a look..

@Zed_Berazel @Gregory17528152 @TylerHuckabee Exactly. If you don't join us in the work of feeding widows and selling possessions to redistribute your wealth and share the "gospel"...like..."share" the good life....you can't just be one of us bc you own land and have a smokin hot wife...

@Gregory17528152 @TylerHuckabee @NikaylaReize This is the context^. The rich were eating the Eucharist meal before the poor could come out of the fields or from their other work. The food would be gone and the poor, who looked towards the meals as their daily bread, would go hungry.

"So far, in the Bible reading, I see that Christian people feel strongly about politics and standing up to the powerful for the weak. Moses gave up his imperial identity and at the center of the Christian life is an executed political opponent of the empire." #quotesfromclass

@derekwilson84 Haha okay I had a range of films to select from and they were all a little "violent" to make students watch so yes...I included Prince of Egypt (1998) as an option.

@NikaylaReize That’s quite the the answer. Which film was it?

In my Christianity course, Sikh & Hindu students watch a Christian film and answer: if I only had this film, what would I think christians believe? My favourite: Christians believe God works miracles to bring liberation from oppression so people can connect with the Divine.

@ideajoy 🤩🤩

@NikaylaReize I don't think there is a generic answer without asking in comparison to what? For many of the first Christians it was Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not. This meant an alternative to to the vision of empire, with it's shame honor dynamics - replaced by communities of love.

You're lecturing on the Christian doctrine of Salvation to students from an entirely different cultural and religious context and they ask, "what are the benefits of becoming Christian?" What is your answer?

Neither Harris nor Walz have given birth and they both have pet cats. What is this world coming to? 😂😂😂

@mraayer But if the students already have that hope in their own religion, is there a benefit to following Jesus? (FTR, this isn't a confessional course and there is no proselytizing but honest class discussion happens)

Maria Pantino was Spain's top hurdler in the 1988 Olympics and she was disqualified because she had a Y chromosome. She fought the charge for 2 years and she won. There are women with XY chromosomes. She rejoined the Olympic squad in 1992.

Teaching a group from another culture is not easy but sitting in 3 hour lectures in a new country with strange cultural norms in a new language, studying a religion that isn't theirs? I can't imagine the courage & resilience req'd to do what these young students are doing.

The Bernadette J. Brooten Award for Scholarship in Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment is open for submissions! Applications must be submitted by 01 August 2024. buff.ly/3zQ9oRi

I did a vulnerable thing. Part 1 : theological exploration of Exodus 3. Part 2: personal story about the cult of evangelical Alberta. Part 3: mushrooms, fungi, reality Please be kind! I am you. nikaylareize.substack.com/p/encountering…

A First Nation community in northern Manitoba says ground-penetrating radar has found 150 anomalies at the site of a former residential school, along with 59 unmarked graves at a nearby cemetery. 💔🧡 Chief David Monias of the Pimicikamak Cree Nation cfjctoday.com/2024/07/03/man…

The sacred text will always feel as new and unsettling as the people you read it with. Get out there. The earth is *already* filled with the glory - you've just been invited to witness it. There's no strategic plan. It's awkward and daunting so do it awkwardly and daunted.