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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is, I think, one of the biggest problems with very online leftism. It's also one of the reasons I stay away from this site, frankly.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

😂😂😂😂 this is FAR too kind, and I'm looking forward to Bishop Sarah's archepiscopacy!

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Oh I think that's the one I meant, yes - and now that you mention it I do remember having the same reaction.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

There was a piece about this in The Hour a while ago, I think Ben Garren wrote it?

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

"Examine and do not even listen if they speak of the glorified Jesus, unless you have first heard of the crucified Jesus." @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social quoting Martin Luther in this new and insightful article: www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

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Am I a Christian if I Don’t Have Spiritual Experiences?

Christians often desire ecstatic encounters with the divine. But not everyone has them.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

This is a key passage for Pentecostals, who argue that this shows a distinction between 'water baptism' and 'spirit baptism.' And while I think the testimony of Scripture as a whole teaches a connection between the two, the point that here at least we see a distinction is hard to argue with.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I know alkaline water is kinda faddish but it has genuinely worked wonders for my acid reflux/chronic sore throats

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

(with the necessary qualification that I don't think manuscript preaching is *wrong*; some people preach best that way! but I think it's worth experimenting a bit, especially given a broader ecclesial culture of...none too animated sermon delivery in TEC)

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Congrats!! Strongly recommend continuing to try it, or using a few notes/an outline. I usually do the latter and I'm told it's really transformed my preaching for the better.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Root is also an excellent board game. The theme and the asymmetric factions are top-notch.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I do really love Marc Chagall and Georgia O'Keeffe.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I've tried at various points, but I don't really 'get' modern visual art after 20s/30s.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

J.M.W. Turner is one of my favorite painters.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

in all sincerity, i really do dislike (what seems to me to be) gratuitous vulgarity in popular music. Sarah makes a lot of fun of me for this.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

it's amazing that the culture industry produced the most compelling modern popular music at the exact time that I was developing emotionally, experiencing first loves and heartbreaks and so on.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the National Park System might be the single best thing about the United States. they're truly breathtaking.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

grocery store food in at least Western/Central Europe really is tastier and better for you than what you'd buy at equivalent stores in North America

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

lake/river swimming > ocean swimming > pool swimming

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the Stadler FLIRT is probably my favorite train at the moment

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

back on George Eliot, one of the most compelling things about her writing is that she makes goodness/growth in virtue novelistically interesting.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I'd much rather travel by train than by plane or car

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the great crested grebe is an excellent bird

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

we (myself very much included) are mostly too addicted to privacy, having our own way, and frictionless lives to be capable of the collective life of thick community, mutuality, etc. that we want.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

if you're funded decently enough and have a good advisor, being a PhD student is an exceedingly pleasant job for its own sake, even if it doesn't lead to a permanent academic posting down the line

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the move away from memorization in contemporary pedagogy was almost entirely a mistake

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

George Eliot is one of the best novelists in the English language, and I regret waiting so long to start reading her.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Twilight Imperium might be Ameritrash but it's also very good fun

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the change from music being something primarily something made to something primarily received/listened to/consumed involves a profound loss

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

oh, that would have been a good idea -- but in this case I did want some attention ha, just posted some engagement bait and went to sleep...

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Let's say non-political and non-theological opinion

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Good thread here, which echoes some of my own complaints about CPE — less the training itself, and more how it functions in how we think about pastoral care.

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David Johnston @dljohnston.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The latest longform episode of All Things Necessary is out. Join me and @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social as we talk about the 39 Articles and some of Ben's writings on "reconfessionalization." ⚓ youtu.be/2YLwY113gns

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The 39 Articles of Religion - Anglicanism

YouTube video by All Things Necessary

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

And putting them all together in a section called “historical documents” might suggest that they all have equivalent status when they really really don’t…

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Right, it’s sort of a mess. There are things in it that obviously aren’t doctrinally binding - the preface from the first BCP, say. And things that do get cited often as authoritative, like the Quadrilateral or Chalcedon.

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Had a great time talking about the Articles of Religion today with @dljohnston.bsky.social for All Things Necessary! ⚓

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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Some thoughts from me on scriptural interpretation and the need to take it seriously. I owe @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social praise for his recent writing on this topic which got me thinking more about this question - if you don't read his substack, you should! ⚓

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"Sleep here that you may see what John saw"

On taking scripture seriously

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We absolutely need to make this happen!!!

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A new Substack from me: what does it mean for Christian life that we exist in a context in which the richest and most powerful companies in the world are constantly competing to ever-more-effectively seize our attention? ⚓

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The War on Attention is a Spiritual War

Thinking theologically about the attention economy

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God! (The OG response in the prayer book tradition)

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I think I underestimated the extent of bullying and deference to power, and the willingness to cover up clergy misconduct, in our clergy culture (at least as I have experienced it).

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Ben Crosby @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Looking back, I think I’ve learned since ordination that the church qua institution is significantly worse than even my most cynical take — and God’s grace given to us in Jesus much richer and stronger than I had understood. ⚓️

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