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Andrew Rampton

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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 12h
I was going to whine about an inconvenience in my evening, but it occurs to me that there's really no convenient time for life-sustaining medical technology to fail, is there? The good news is that there's a system to replace it quickly and I know how to manage without it in the short term.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20h
OH MY GOD CLERGY PLEASE STOP WITH THE AI SLOP IT IS SUCH AN UGLY LOOK
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 02/10/2026
Some thoughts on Yellow Barks Spider by Harman Burns. It's an uncomfortable read, but not in a bad way. #booksky #readingreflection www.bookishpriest.com/yellow-barks...
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Yellow Barks Spider
Yellow Barks Spider is the debut publication of Harman Burns, a Saskatchewan-born transwoman, now a resident of Vancouver. This book is a journey with three legs, reflecting on different eras in the l...
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 01/10/2026
A greatly belated review of Uketsu's second "Strange" book, "Strange Houses". www.bookishpriest.com/strange-hous... #booksky #readingreflection
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Strange Houses
What is going on in the dead space hidden between the walls of a mysterious house? A writer fascinated by the macabre is determined to find out.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 20/09/2026
Jesus calls his followers to be gracious, merciful, and loving in the way that God is gracious, merciful and loving. And yet, when we do this, there are those who complain. As though God's grace is not abundant for all. A sermon on Matthew 20:1-16. www.bookishpriest.com/an-economy-o...
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An Economy of Grace and Mercy
Jesus calls his followers to relationships of radical care. In today's gospel passage, he calls for economic reformation, not based on capital or merit, but grace and mercy.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 02/09/2026
Looking for a good edition of The Didache for a church study group. Preferably from a reputable publisher. There's a sea of independently published editions out there and they always make me anxious. Any recommendations? #anglican #didache #churchbookstudy
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 29/08/2026
Writing as a would-be scholar-priest: I regularly feel disappointed that I don't do more more writing. I really enjoyed the research and writing process while in university and was pretty good at it. 📕 1/5
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 27/08/2026
I've never really used earbuds or similar devices because I wear hearing aids. There's only so much real estate in these little ears. Got new hearing aids with Bluetooth that connect to my phone. Cue me shouting every time there's a call or notification and the sound is INSIDE MY HEAD.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As much as I love what Mamdani is doing, I can't stress enough that it's literally just his job. That's what every major in every city is supposed to be doing.  The fact that is an anomaly should enrage you.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 23/08/2026
Middle of mass, prayer over the gifts, "...for these your many gifts..." At that moment, one of the kids makes a truly epic fart noise with their hands against their mouth. I truly love having kids in church for the whole service. 😂 ⚓
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 22/08/2026
When writing, there are few things I enjoy more than inserting footnotes. They're either helpful references for the reader off in other places, like a treasure map OR they're the kind of comments I usually make via text message in meetings. Anyone else love good footnotes?
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Memento Mori Kira @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thinking a lot about the recent high-profile cycling deaths and the saying, “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” “Drivers are afraid that cyclists will slow them down. Cyclists are afraid that drivers will kill them.”
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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Luke’s description in Acts of the early church’s communism of goods in Jerusalem is one that good Christians have striven heroically for the better part of two millennia to pretend not to notice." -David Bentley Hart The New Testament: a translation p. 569, 2nd Edition
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 18/08/2026
Book thread (beginning August 2026)
Cover of Cory Doctorow's book, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI".
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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here!
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 17/08/2026
Highly recommended: Accept when a bishop offers you a motorcycle tour of her see city and environs.
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Memento Mori Kira @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I recently started using the pulpit instead of preaching from the floor because there’s so much of this poem happening with predominantly male clergy.
SUSAN HARLAN
MY FIRST NAME
No, you can't call me By my first name, And yes, I know that A male professor Told you that titles Are silly
Because a certain genre Of man
Is always dying
To performatively
Divest himself
Of his easily won
Authority.
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TS Eliot frontal at Westminster Abbey for the feast of St Mary. Incredibly based.
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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A non-zero percentage of the religion problems of our day is that both the religious and the formerly-religious have never developed a mature understanding of the faith and base all their opinions on what they learned in 3rd grade Sunday school
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 01/08/2026
After picking up the demo when it came out in 2020, I finally completed a playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 today. It was a good time with lots left for another playthrough some day. I love a fun story, even if it does take me six years to get to the end!
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 29/07/2026
In theory, they're grouped by subject and alphabetically by author's surname within each subject. In reality, we recently moved house and it's total chaos. I found a book today that was plain upside down.
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
For Epiphany, this glorious 1966 illustration of the Three Kings by the great Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000), best remembered for his enormous contribution to Disney Animation's visual style during the 1950s, particularly Sleeping Beauty (1959).
With a palette of just black, gold, and hues of blue, the Three Kings bearing gifts stand in a row, almost column-like, on the left half of the composition, with the seated Mary and Christ child on the right, against a great, ornamented, circular halo of gold.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 03/01/2026
This is a well-written story with a good pace. There is just enough circumstantial evidence and more than a few "what ifs" for the reader to be left guessing. It may be that Lady Ferry is just an astonishingly old , peculiar woman, but it may also be that she is something else entirely...
The cover of Lady Ferry, in shades of purple, which depicts a woman in an Edwardian dress with a skull for a face.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 01/01/2026
Reading Christmastide ghost stories with a cat asleep on your lap. Does it get much better? This little book is a great, short ghost story about greed and murder revealed in a cottage on the moors. It's beautifully illustrated by Seth, a globally-publisher cartoonist from Guelph, just up the road.
A tuxedo cat sleeps on a lap covered in a green blanket next to a hand holding a copy of "The Amethyst Cross" by Mary Fitt.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 01/01/2026
When your lightest reading mood doesn't quite touch the darkest reading mood of your friends...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New: Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now— And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be. Practical tips & bigger picture here:
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fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
GENRES ARE MARKETING TOOLS NOT RULES
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 19/12/2024
Favourite at the moment is the Wexford Carol. That tune is absolutely glorious. Least favourite is Jingle Bell Rock/Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (which are two sides of the same horrid coin in my mind).
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
If 20 years of research on the effects of plastics had taught me anything, it's that everyone thinks it's awful and then nothing changes.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 16/12/2024
A great piece on (dis)enchantment, belief, religion, and why Santa Claus might be more real than you think.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 15/12/2024
God's Promise of Dignity: a sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent. www.bookishpriest.com/gods-promise...
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God's Promise of Dignity
God promises that we will know the dignity of every human being. Every human being... Just who does that include and how will we know?
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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The book flood is the publishing season before Christmas. We have our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. Exchanging presents happens after dinner. This may or may not involve books. The sitting up reading happens late in the night if at all. Cocoa? Possibly.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 12/12/2024
A first this morning: a medical technician who had to administer some uncomfortable tests to me, before starting, said, "This will hurt a bit. I know you're a priest. Please don't curse me." We had a good laugh and then it did, indeed, hurt a bit. No curses involved.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 09/12/2024
Having a text exchange about homiletics, the Incarnation, and the hymns of St Ephrem the Syrian. I have some of the coolest friends.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 08/12/2024
Blessed Second Sunday of Advent, all. ✝️⚓
An Advent wreath with two violet candles lit while incense burns in the centre and a small wooden icon of Our Lady and the Christ Child stands in front.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I still have never listened to any of Taylor Swift’s music. I think it adds a little mystery to my life.
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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
listen up christians: ~if~ you believe in a god of transactions, maybe instead consider a god of justice
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 02/12/2024
A sermon for the First Sunday of Advent and God's promise of redemption. What does it mean for the Kingdom of God - heaven - to come to us? www.bookishpriest.com/gods-promise...
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God's Promise of Redemption
What does God's promise of redemption mean for us and this world? How are we to make sense of hope, peace, joy, and love alongside heaven, hell, death and judgement?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/12/2024
I still see people cutting and pasting from the Bad Place to dunk on it here, and I hope you all get that out of your system real soon now
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 17/11/2024
I've tried, roughly annually, to play through Breath of the Wild since purchasing it. Now, five tries in, I think I have to call it: This game is not for me. #gaymer
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 16/11/2024
In the last 18 months, two colleagues have retired and gifted me most or all of their libraries. (Clergy tend to amass books.) I'm finally getting around to cataloguing. It looks like the TBR of physical books in my house may pass 600. At least I know what my plans are for the next decade or so...
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 16/11/2024
Quote a favourite film using a gif only
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a woman with a bandage on her eye is wearing a white trench coat and sunglasses .
Alt: A woman with a bandage on her eye is wearing a white trench coat and sunglasses, walking down a hospital hallway and whistling.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 14/11/2024
I love finding notes from previous readers in books. #marginalia
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 25/10/2024
This is a really lovely thread.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 11/02/2024
A sermon for the Last Sunday after Epiphany. If you're into that sort of thing. www.bookishpriest.com/when-the-swe...
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When the Sweet By and By Meets the Nasty Here and Now
When confronted with revelations of divine truth, God's first instruction is not to act, but to listen.
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Andrew Rampton @bookishpriest.com · 10/02/2024
I know that #TheTraitors isn't real. It's entertainment and more scripted than we're meant to think. But it's amazing to watch how effectively loud voices sway a crowd and how even the smallest differences between people become excuses for radical exclusion.
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