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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sweetest of all sweet things I can say: Reconciling with God on Judgment Day. —Taliesin the Bard

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Nintendo DS Lewis ✝️ @blueberrymill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Extemporaneous prayer, or as I like to call it, praying

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How I feel after eating three (3) biscuits slathered in sausage gravy in the span of four minutes

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s the first night here in the Burgh where the cold makes my bones ache. You know what that means. Biscuits and gravy dinner night!

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m pleased to share that, as of today, I am an Associate Member of the Iona Community! ⚓️

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Fellowship of the Ring for my fun fiction, and I’m currently doing a slow work through of Ethics: Systematic Theology Volume 1, which is the first the three-volume systematic theology of James Wm McClendon Jr. Once I finish his Ethics, I’ll move on to Doctrine (vol. 2) and then Witness (vol. 3).

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We should probably talk about angels more

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Baptist enough to say it: There is ONLY the laity! I was ordained to an office of the Church, not to a distinct ontological category.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Confess the faith of Christ crucified, proclaim his resurrection, and share with us in his eternal priesthood.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Progressive Christian social media influencers make me cringe ngl

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no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is to heav’n I want to go,

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My first article for the website TheTorah.com is on the subject that has been a focus of my academic research for longer than any other: did the exalted status that Christians ascribed to Jesus represent a departure from Jewish allegiance to one God alone? www.thetorah.com/article/exal...

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Exalting Jesus—Did Early Christians Abandon Monotheism? - TheTorah.com

Paul’s portrayal of Jesus as an exalted ruler may seem to challenge Jewish monotheism. Yet the idea of a human king ruling on God’s behalf is already found in the Bible. Reading Paul alongside Jewish…

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JJ 🏳️‍🌈👻 @jjr222.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kinda in the mood for Christmas 👀

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“The Reign of God is judged by one thing: whether the people eat.” —Shadia Qubti, Palestinian theologian, reflecting on the Gospel lesson this Sunday.

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no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sound forth Immanuel’s praise.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t think enough people talk about Stanley Hauerwas’ defense of John Howard Yoder. Hauerwas’ attempt to soften Yoder’s abuse under the guise of “Poor John, he was a victim of his own analytic brilliance—and think of his family and how hard all this must be on the family!” is part of his legacy.

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Robert G. Callahan, II - author / attorney @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Be careful when the Bible suddenly becomes “complicated” precisely where it asks you to care about people you were taught not to care about.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My current little slogan is “Nachfolge (German for discipleship) Not Nationalism.”

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You cannot talk about 9/11 without also talking about the lethal Islamophobia that arose thereafter. You can’t talk about 9/11 without also talking about how it was used to justify torture. You can’t talk about 9/11 without also talking about Gitmo and Abu Ghraib.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“When the war in Afghanistan was started, I said rather than spend all that money to go to war in Afghanistan, why don’t we buy them bread, bomb them with bread.” —Dr. Stanley Hauerwas #NineEleven

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Torture assumes the spiritual form of the demonic. [It] blasphemes against God, neighbor, and self.” —The Rev. Dr. George Hunsinger 📸: Dr. Hunsinger speaking at the Constitution Project’s forum on Guantanamo Bay Detainees. #NineEleven

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remember those tortured at Abu Ghraib. Remember those tortured at Guantanamo Bay. Remember how the United States violated and continues to violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in torture. Remember…those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured. —Hebrews 13:3

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a page of a Bible found fused to a piece of steel from the rubble of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers. How apropos that Matthew 5:38-42—the portion of the Sermon on the Mount wherein Christ commands his Church to turn the other cheek—is what is visible amongst the burnt debris.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“[D]eeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” —Aragorn to the Lady Éowyn, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Book 5, Chapter 2 #LaborDay

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EOW Without Context @eow-no-context.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

God is working today in the committed relationships of same-sex couples

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am a certified hater of “Morning Has Broken.”

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

James McClendon Jr’s systematics is melting my mind—in a good way. My goodness I love being Baptist.

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today’s Italy update: we went in a church and there was a big inflatable bug

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Charles Spargur @cspargur.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is why I am frustrated with those Baptists who support Christian Nationalism. Our history shows why separation of church and state is important! The Puritans of Mass. did not believe in separation of church and state and persecuted us (and many others) as a result.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I finally got a leatherbound copy of my denomination’s hymnal! Not to be biased or anything, but it is literally the best hymnal I’ve ever seen.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On this day in Baptist history, Obadiah Holmes was whipped thirty times for preaching without the blessing of the established church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Adding to the chorus as a Baptist: “[The] sole authority for faith and practice among Baptists is the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Confessions are only guides in interpretation, having no authority over the conscience.” —The 1963 Report of Committee on Baptist Faith and Message

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Does anyone have a good feminist (or preferably Womanist!) resource for the book of Jeremiah? The more I read this book the more uncomfortable I become because of all the gendered violent imagery, and I’d love to have resources for that aspect of the book. ⚓️

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Christian discipleship begins with being with Jesus.” —The Rev. Daniel Potter

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today’s devotional reading of the Bible: finishing Isaiah and beginning John. I’ve read from Genesis to Isaiah straight through, and I just began reading the New Testament a few days ago. I’m on track to finish my yearly cover-to-cover reading of the Scriptures.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Who can fail to do you homage, Lord, and sing the praises of your Name?

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

put all things in subjection under your Christ,

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First Dolly Parton. Now Wendell Berry. My Appalachian heart can’t take much more.

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

—Wendell Berry. _The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry_. Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2003. (p.319)

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“[M]odern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. … It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.”

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Daily devotions with my Schuyler RSV Quentel in black goatskin. This was my ordination Bible both given as a gift and presented to me by my husband!

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