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You should’ve seen our opening chapel service last week, some visceral reactions to starting by having an Indigenous scholar/priest smudging. Then again, if I’d experienced that before I was an Anglican I might have had a similar reaction.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 17/09/2026

Somehow I totally missed this! Congrats!

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 10/09/2026

In our new student orientation session this morning, several folks were very curious about how I was interested both in patristics and John Wesley/Anglican theology, and it made me realize that the tiny bubble of Anglicans doing patristics is perhaps the smallest it's been in 100 years.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 05/09/2026

I can't tell if this is "The Dream" or a true horror. Leaning more one direction than the other...

Thomas Hinde, in A Field Guide to the English Country Parson (a significantly zoological title), thought that the whole idea of village parsons was a social experiment: "Give a reasonably educated middle-class Englishman a modest income, a house in the country, and job security for life, and see what he will do... The most important thing the Anglican Church gave England was a gentleman in every parish."

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 28/08/2026

At some point I'm going to get all of those skulls tattooed on me

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 28/08/2026

Oh no you ruined the experience by going inside. You have to stay outside and just imagine the inside.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 28/08/2026

This has been a blustery couple weeks of meetings and getting-to-knowings etc etc etc as I figure out what’s happening for this new term. I have, like, a profile on our school website and have been made an honourary at the cathedral and am on the board of a journal. Too much adulting too quickly.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 28/08/2026

The big church in Reykjavik is absolutely divine

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 27/07/2026

This is how I’ve shaped my career basically

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 27/07/2026

Getting settled in Vancouver and grateful that this far in every city I’ve lived in, I can find good donuts within about a 5-10 minute commute.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 16/07/2026

Thanks Rob! Was just chatting with Miriam earlier—AST is going to really by blessed by her presence!

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 16/07/2026

Thanks Miriam! Will I see you at SBLAAR?

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 16/07/2026

Mordor is Mordoring even more than usual these days

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 16/07/2026

Ok, here’s an idea: what if we just build more AI data centres?

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 10/07/2026

That’s more of a…recursive eponym than a mascot

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 10/07/2026

What model do you have? When I move I’m getting one…

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 07/07/2026

The lovely timing of doing a baptism next week for twins when the OT reading is Genesis 25:19-34! ⚓️

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 03/07/2026

Matanovic doing too much thinking

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 03/07/2026

I mean I gotta root for a shootout so I can keep procrastinating

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 03/07/2026

If one thing is true about this World Cup it’s that I’m always wrong with every prediction, so I’m sure there’ll be a hope and failure in extra time

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 03/07/2026

I’m also cheering for Portugal but solely because a bunch of Croatia fans on their way to the stadium were talking too loudly on the quiet train this afternoon

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 02/07/2026

Does the proposal mention who’s going to pay for it? Or how to pay salaries for the undoubtedly hundreds of non-stupidity clergy already trying to revitalize their parishes? No? Weird…

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 02/07/2026

Yes! But only when I lose them in the bed in which I am also presently lying

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 02/07/2026

Between this and the Senegal game there’s been some real dingers today

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 01/07/2026

I’m not trying to be edgy or glib here, just honest. Thanks to being in Canada, I paid $0 for over $600,000 worth of cancer treatment. I’m alive because of this country. So I hope you take my opinions seriously.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 01/07/2026

This is my first Canada Day as a Canadian citizen. Something folks don’t realize on the outside is that while Canada does some things very well, it’s still a nation where being white and having access to generational wealth has more advantages. Also our PM doesn’t seem to care about climate change.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 30/06/2026

Wait, what do you mean no one bought my book last year that only came out in hardback that costs an extravagant amount of money? Consider me shocked.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 25/06/2026

Oh shoot! Yeah that’s too bad! It was lovely, I’m glad we had the chance to make the trip down.

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 25/06/2026

I consider my work a figural interpretation of his work even as he’s figurally interpreting others’ work

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Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com · 24/06/2026

I made so much book progress up until like January that now I can’t even be bothered to open the folder the file is in because I feel like I’ve literally dumped a box of puppies somewhere.

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