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The hero of Dead Poets Society is Dr. J. Evans Pritchard
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Had an older middle-aged guy in one of my hapkido classes be like “I grew up around lead paint and I’m fine” and I had to think “you know, [redacted], lead causes alterations to mental development, I’m not sure you did turn out Ok”
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Making Marx a commodity for the neoliberal construction of the self via conspicuous consumption is perhaps the most powerful antimarxist move one can make.
Grimes in Los Angeles today.
Photography by Jvshvisions
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We need less STEM and more TEAM (Theology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics).
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not protestant, not catholic, but a secret third thing (protestant)
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Pro-tip to ushers: don’t say “you know the masks are optional, right?” to a new family wearing masks coming into your church.
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Remember, “miserable sinners” is always a perfectly acceptable gender neutral way of addressing a group.
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I think it’s pretty baller that John has Jesus’s grave clothes explicitly left behind when Lazarus came out still entangled in his, what with Lazarus still entangled in this dying life while Christ was transformed into undying life.
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Did you know Jesus was not tempted by the “devil” but by the “adversary”
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TIL the Wall Street Journal thinks this is a broad cross-section of American workers.
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Reality show pitch:
An Orthodox, Lutheran, Catholic, Anglo-Catholic, and Old High Church Anglican cadre descends on low-church Protestant communities to make them appealing to millennials.
It shall be called: High Eye for the Low Guy
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What’s more, Yale has even published a book sincerely claiming a guy was dead and then wasn’t anymore!
Yale University Press has published a 492 page book apparently
defending the claim that Christian saints actually ‘flew’ or levitated
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Just to put things in perspective: On Sunday we celebrate the beginning of a liberative organization led by black and brown teenagers and young adults who were accused of drunkenness and disorderly conduct in the wake of the murder of a brown man by corrupt law enforcement.
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Every seminary should offer and require every MDiv to take a one semester design and adobe cc course. The final will be that you take a real-life hot garbage newsletter and bulletin and make it less hot garbagey.
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If your pastor preaches on *ANYTHING* this week, get up and walk out of church BECAUSE WHAT ARE YOU DOING PHYSICALLY IN CHURCH WATCH THE LIVESTREAM YOU SHOULD BE SOCIALLY DISTANCING
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I've gotten pushback from some Episcopalians because I suggested that we use pew bibles and because my bulletin has a belief statement on the back... because evangelicals do these things.
I hope some Episcopalians never find out that evangelicals eat and take showers too.
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What’s the single best novel ever written about love?
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What if churches with some money in the bank bought student loans from people and then made them 0% interest repayments?
I bet there’d be some young folks who would take advantage of that.
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We 👏🏼 do 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 need 👏🏼 Rome’s 👏🏼 per 👏🏼 mis 👏🏼 sion 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 be 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 real 👏🏼 church 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
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Don’t you dare act like this isn’t why you created a twitter dot com account.
#BabyYoda
#Episcopal
#Anglican
#ChoirDress
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The trick in Christianity is getting to where you realize most people (yourself especially) are wretched, miserable, conflicted, scared egoists who are nonetheless worthy of unconditional love, patience, and mercy.
It’ll save you a lot of disappointment.
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Every elder millenial indie emo scene kid evangelical is some combination of two of these. what are you?
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I’m not fully sure about how to frame this, but the lady-leaving-dying-boyfriend story, and especially the comments in *support* indicates a profound lack (loss?) of the sense that being entangled with other people, can thrust upon us responsibilities that while unfair are real.
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Should rebrand Oxford and Cambridge as University of England and England State University.
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The mainline has a lot of causes of decline, but one of the tragic low hanging fruit it's often not dealing with is the utter disdain congregations have for small children and people who care for them.
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Paul’s message that “Your personal liberty does not trump the welfare of the weaker members of the community” seems like, uh, a pretty timely message for our country.
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A younger (10 yo) member was asking what exactly sacraments are and I said "they're places where God had promised to always show up and give us grace in a special way so that we can better see where God is showing up everywhere else in the world" and I'm pretty happy with that.
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Say it with me: Paul's writings are closer temporally to Christ than the Gospels, which are also theological interpretations and not "straight forward just the facts histories."
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Anyone else have that recurring dream that you’re at your alma mater inexplicably for a second bachelors and you get to the end of the semester to realize you just forgot to go all semester to a bunch of classes you signed up for? No? Just me?
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I got pretty freaked out that everyone was getting along too well and building really tall buildings so I messed up all their words so no one could talk to each other. Aita?
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I very much appreciate the needlepoint kneelers we have at my church and I also can't help but think that the chalice and wafer look a lot like fancy gelato.
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I’m happy to announce that I have accepted a call as priest-in-charge of Trinity Episcopal Church in Oshkosh, WI. It will be sad to leave the wonderful people of
@DioceseSD
, but
@P_Hurns
and I are extremely excited to begin this new chapter of service to God’s church.
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Qualifications for the new Pope that would bear the most fruit:
-Be a man
-Swift as the coursing river
-With all the force of a great typhoon
-With all the strength of a raging fire
-Mysterious as the dark side of the moon
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I am a Pauline maximalist. Paul not only wrote the whole Bible but also many of the classics of western literature.
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A little theologizing on why I think a consistent pattern of church attendance is necessary to instill the habit (even if church isn’t always enjoyable). Capitalism distorts our desires. Church, done right, will often be boring or frustrating for those distorted by capitalism.
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Are y’all ready for...
Sexy Lazarus?
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Let me remind everyone I am a Pauline Maximalist: Paul wrote not only the whole bible, but also the Iliad, Beowulf, and the Avesta
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What if we translated μαθητής as “learner” rather than “disciple”: that would *completely* change everything. Such significant. Much exegete.
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Helpful graphs at the intersection of theology and biblical studies
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Facebook reminding me of how Louisa decided to wear angel wings to my ordination to the priesthood.
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Ok I finally made what I think is the most fine-grained “what kind of Anglican are you” quiz.
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For everyone wanting a more eyebrowed Rowan, here he is:
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I want to kill "theology of abundance." To be created is to live within limits and limits involve scarcity.
Prosperity theology is "theology of abundance." Climate denial theology is "theology of abundance."
What we need is a theology of sufficiency.
A theology of enough.
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Surely I’m not the only person who has noticed that Rowan Williams was part of the Rebel Alliance, right?
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Pic for the newspaper article just dropped.
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I just realized that putting a basket over a lit oil lamp is a really good way to start a fire. I wonder if Jesus is in part saying: You can either provide light for your house or burn your house down, but the light is going to get out one way or another.
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I am so taken by Rowan Williams on what the saint is, as essentially the one so comfortable in themself that they can become transparent to Christ and draw people in to a desire to be more holy as they are, not through guilt, but by true desire, an erotic attraction to sanctity.
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Gotta say, I’m really blown away by the extravagant consumer lifestyle decisions people are dreaming of in my feed if their student loans are paid off.
Things like “save”; “give to charity”; “pay off other debt”; “be able to retire”
Truly the decadence is out of control.
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Amelia Elizabeth Corbin was born 8:17 AM MDT 4/18/2020!
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Another serious question that’s been brought up a few times and I want to amplify: Why is it culturally conceivable for people at 23-27 to become full physicians, psychiatrists, lawyers, social workers, business owners, etc. but it’s hard to conceive of clergy in that age range?
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Hey if the Celtic and Germanic gods were so strong and mighty it shouldn’t have been so easy for some guy who got nailed to a cross to take over their Holy Days.
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If your evangelical theology can accommodate Christian wealth, it can accommodate full LGBTQ inclusion and women in ministry, and in fact it is much easier to square these with Scripture.
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There was a thing on Facebook attributed to Bruce McCormack (I think) that basically said “the real fault line in the church today isn’t conservative or liberal, it’s whether you think that ‘God’ has a referent independent of you or whether it’s just a mobilizing concept”
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Look who’s getting marked as Christ’s own forever this morning!
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“A Christianity predating Jesus Christ” 🤔
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Seems the strongest correlation so far, among those who were raised going to church and no longer attend church today, is no extra-worship activities. In other words, if you want your kids to stay in church as adults, it seems you need to make them do more than go to worship.
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In all seriousness and without any pretense of dunking: If you don't think Jesus is God it is morally irresponsible to follow his teachings.
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Why should you move to SD?
These are pics from two trails both only five minutes from my house.
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We gotta stop acting like Amanda Gorman is so astounding *because she’s 23*
She’s great. But we really have to stop acting like it’s some huge surprise when young adults are great.
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Catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian, Lutheran, and Orthodox clergy should excommunicate any state agents in their churches who take part in planning or implementing violent escalation against protesters until they repent.
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To the bumper stickerer: Jesus did not have a gun AND he IS still here.
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Please stop using Puritan as a slur to mean sex-negative and read a book.
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Sometimes I think about writing a whole book on Church vitality and best practices, but then it would just be 200 pp of fluff for
1. Don't embezzle
2. Don't affair
3. Follow up with newcomers
4. Invite new people
5. Whatever worship you do, do it well
6. Pray
7. Confess/repent
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Pretty good example of why the "the liturgy is enough to form people as Christians!" take is off base.
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If you've ever visited churches, especially while "church shopping," what are the worst/most uncomfortable/made you not want to go back things that happened, especially if they were done in the name of "welcoming" you?
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I very much want to live in some sort of Episcopal mixed monastic and family commune with a very hearty maker’s space.
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What’s one common misconception about Christian history you’d like everyone to beat into their heads?
For me it’s that the Council of Niceae (and in fact no early council) has anything to do with the canon.
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“Trads”: God literally reconstructed the whole cosmos and destroyed death through death
Process: God is your passive aggressive middle class mom who nags you into mid-century European social democracy
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The Bible is not unconcerned with sexual morality but oooooh boy is it so so so much more concerned with the effect that dishonesty and deception have on the individual and community
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The 3yo just had a meltdown because I wouldn‘t take her to Evening Prayer at the church (it’s only on Saturday), and, like, you can’t really be mad at that
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I will die on the hill that the CoE is older than the RCC tho
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What if, and hear me out, there were some way to organize all these professors so that they agreed to just not do this such that the university couldn’t carry out its plans.
Faculty at UGA are being asked to identify their next-of-academic-kin, meaning someone who can take over their class if they get exposed/sick (or worse). It’s almost like admin know conditions will be unsafe and people will get sick...
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When the Onion is doing a much better job of being what the B*bylon B** should be.
Amy Coney Barrett Promises Catholic Faith Won’t Interfere With Court’s Crushing Of The Poor, Downtrodden
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In English “Karl Barth” would be Charles Barkley
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If Trinity Wall Street liquidated 1/3 of its portfolio, it could support salaries for two church planters at $100k per planter for five years at 9 plants in EVERY DIOCESE IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
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Anyone else see the irony in the fact that many of the “hobbies” (woodworking, gardening, knitting, etc.) we do to unwind from our alienating late capitalist work are just things people used to do as part of life when the home was a center of production?
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Imagine being some other Thomas from Aquino.
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How do I get church people to stop double spacing after sentences and start using the Oxford comma?
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Y’all. We had 13 people at our inaugural Monday night Eucharist. This is a 24 ASA church that was 6 ASA when we got here three years ago. I’m ecstatic.
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Spreading misinformation is satanic.
This is not hyperbole.
Satan is the father of lies.
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This is Antichrist
Canada will allow assisted dying for mental illness starting in March. Has there been enough time to get it right?
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Hi my name is Chris–I don’t *really* think Paul wrote Hebrews but I do think he authored the pastorals, Ephesians, and Colossians. I also think Q is useless and may not exist.
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This post is rite that the CoE’s ROOTS go back to before the Reformation (as all the Reformed catholic ⛪️s of Europe).
Also, the Church of England is older than the Roman Catholic Church (circa 1563)
Also please like this tweet so the CoE doesn’t get ratioed by nasty trads
The Church of England is the established Christian church in England.
Our roots go back to the time of the Roman Empire, when the church came into existence in what was then the province of Britain.
Find out more about our history at .
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Those terrible fundamentalist churches: People bring notebooks to church and take notes on hourlong sermons on fine points of Greek exegesis
The Episcopal church, a church for *intellectuals*: “What do you mean the 28 BCP I have at home isn’t what we use at church anymore?”
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Nominate the most gracious twitter presence you know of.
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Imagine thinking “boy you know how I’m going to serve Christ’s One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church? I’ll assume the name TradKnightHereticHunter1054 and own the Prots by tweeting extremely abrasive but only mildly annoying thoughts at my 15 followers”
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Thank you for all the prayers for Scout. She’s now wherever it is that cats wait for the New Creation.
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At my daughters school I’ve heard that there are kids identifying as Calvinists and the teachers are letting them, encouraging them even. They’re even putting boxes of the Westminster Confession in the bathrooms. This is in a very conservative state.
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Atheism can't explain this
Post your last saved picture with the caption "atheism can't explain this" and then try and get into an argument about it in the replies.
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New draft of a BCP book mark for the church just dropped
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Ok imagine this:
1. Community farm/school/chapel/workshop
2. You join and all debt is eliminated. Then no private property and all income goes into an evenly distributed pool
3. You make coffins and raise bees
4. Lay and clergy
5. We support roving revivalists and brass bands
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This is not a hot take, it is a truth. If you think good stewardship is merely keeping your church out of the red at the expense of actually doing ministry to populations you need to reach, that’s burying your talent in the ground.
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