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Fr Christopher Poore

@christopherpoore.bsky.social
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Episcopal priest. PhD student in theology at UChicago Divinity School. Bringing Anglican texts back to life: editor of Seminary Street Press and VTS Press.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“However, this essential solidarity, in accord with Jesus’ solidarity with all sinners—to the extent of taking upon him their sinful condition—means that the Mother is given the ‘last place’, behind the last sinner, to whom she does not refuse her solidarity.” TD4
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So I've heard Jesus is just another jerk in our world who needs to be called out. But I’d like to offer an alternative reading of the liberating Gospel of the Canaanite woman, one grounded in the theology of St. Cyril, St. Thomas Aquinas, Katherine Sonderegger, and James Cone. Link in reply.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Three hard truths about Anglican-Orthodox relations. 1) Anglicans, they’re just not that into you. 2) The reasons for separation keep on shifting. 3) Sometimes you have to choose. But read the piece to find out exactly what I mean by all that: drawnfromthechalice.substack.com/p/3-hard-tru...
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3 Hard Truths about Anglican-Orthodox Relations
This last week I overcame my absolute horror of appearing on video and sat down with All Things Necessary, the wonderful podcast hosted by Fr.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This was a lot of fun. Many thanks to All Things Necessary for having me on.
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JayTheAnglican @anglicancanada.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Head over and watch. Already watching and it’s an amazing conversation. ⚓️
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Marguerite @margueritek.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Loved this so much! Learned a ton. There is NOTHING like God's people speaking from the heart.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New pfp giving evidence of man bun deletion
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I admit I still have not switched over, but I'm very glad to see this new edition of the NRSVue Bible with Apocrypha coming out from Church Publishing. Release date is April 14.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
But come on: if you think our orders are utterly null and totally void, then why are you so bothered? (I sometimes wonder whether this sort of reaction is sometimes motivated by a fear that the Anglican Communion might be a real church after all)
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me."
Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally kneels before the altar during the liturgy of her installment at Canterbury Cathedral. She wears a golden cope.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
One of my favorite images from Archbishop Sarah's installation: her swearing of the oath with the St. John's Gospel Book open to the incarnation illumination. So powerful and moving.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Melting down one's valuable possessions to make a chalice, fiercely advocating for the sacramental care of the poor and dispossessed. Such is the ministry of Isabella Gilmore, who oversaw the reinstitution of women to the diaconate in the Church of England. More of this energy please.
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Cornelius Logue @archivedelver.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
And I also.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Don't know how this is possible, but: I've never been a monk and yet the Rule of St. Benedict has profoundly shaped my life, challenging me to listen more deeply and to live life with deep roots. Very happy to share these reflections with you all. ⚓ drawnfromthechalice.substack.com/p/how-the-ru...
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
You do realize that if Hooker beats Cranmer, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity immediately becomes an authorized liturgy of the Episcopal Church, and we'll just start reading that aloud for Sunday service?
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
btw the point of spiritual direction is not for your director to say: “Ignore your conscience and listen to me!”
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I’m just convinced. Raïssa Maritain’s life as a contemplative in the world informed the positions taken at Vatican II. Her reflections on conscience should strike fear into every abusive spiritual director, even as her words on spiritual freedom will give courage to the timid.
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Who Was Raïssa Maritain? The Spiritual Mother Behind Vatican II
Raïssa Maritain's writings on the importance of spiritual liberty appear as premonitions of the positions taken by the Church during Vatican II.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I believe this.
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Br. Gregory Morris, O.S.B @meinradmonk87.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The most recurrent and persistent insight spoken by retreatants, visitors, guests, and students is that we monks are so peaceful and welcoming to them. My honest response to them usually entails something akin to, "Yes, it's because we take naps, and don't work ourselves to death."
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"I wish every seminarian would read it on their first day of liturgical studies." Just one of the heartening comments on my latest. Thank you for the warm responses! ⚓
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What is wrong with the modern liturgy?
On technocracy, spiritual avarice, and liturgical ascesis
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The Rev. Andy McQuery @frandym.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
My own training/tradition is that stoles are removed for the foot-washing, but to see the Bishop of Rome in a deacon's stole says some very good things.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
we can then say that each country also belongs to the foreigner, inasmuch as a territory’s goods must not be denied to a needy person coming from elsewhere. Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti 124
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
we are obliged to respect the right of all individuals to find a place that meets their basic needs and those of their families ... Our response to the arrival of migrating persons can be summarized by four words: welcome, protect, promote and integrate. Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti 129
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If every human being possesses an inalienable dignity ... and if the world truly belongs to everyone, then it matters little whether my neighbour was born in my country or elsewhere. My own country also shares responsibility for his or her development. Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti 125
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Whatever is opposed to life itself … whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation … all these things … poison human society … Moreover, they are supreme dishonor to the Creator. Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes 27
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
As someone very interested in trying to help theology along in the university, I love both the daring and the humility of this approach. Universities study things that exist. God exists—ineffably so. Therefore universities should include a place for the study of God.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A beautiful definition of reason from Rowan Williams: reason as our capacity to behold the world together, to listen to one another. "We’ve lost sight of the notion that what God gives us is the capacity to listen to one another and learn from one another in a common world."
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
But in his passion to become superhuman, man becomes subhuman, estranged from the source of his being, threatening and threatened by his neighbor, transforming a situation destined for intimate human fellowship into a spider web of conspiracy and violence. —James H. Cone
Photo of James Cone speaking at the Rall Lectures in 1969 in the Chapel of the Unnamed Faithful.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This crisis, and the insistence that God ought not be violent to His own creature’s “inalienable core,” funds Balthasar’s most radical speculative seeking of the “most” lost soul, following it into the very depths of Hell. It ends abruptly in silence and indecision. He can reason into it no more.
Theo-Drama vol. 5
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"Rage... can feel like moral seriousness. It can masquerade as courage. It can even borrow the language of prophetic witness. But it corrodes the very capacities that priesthood is meant to cultivate: patience, attentiveness, the willingness to remain with people rather than reduce them..."
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Wake Up Dead Man and the New Seductions of the Cloth
Wake Up Dead Man reimagines clerical corruption, shifting the threat from lust or greed to rage, grievance, and culture-war ideology for modern times.
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Robin @its-robin.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
🔥 YES!
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. —Charles Péguy, “The Honest People”
Painting of Charles Peguy.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Why do the people of the Church look into the dark places of the world?
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Less Anglican punditry. More Anglo-Catholic mystagogy. This is my New Year's Resolution.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Karl Barth wasn't an iconoclast full stop. He just believed icons should be placed ad orientem and not versus populum. Basically he was a trad, in his way. Literally the funniest iconoclast ever.
Picture of a quote reading: “I had said to Balthasar some years ago that I could have no objection in principle to a statue of Mary if, instead of on the altar, it were put on a level with the congregation and had its face turned toward the altar.” See “Letter 123,” in Karl Barth Letters, 1961–1968, trans. Geofrey Bromiley (Eerdmans, 1981), 135.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
What if I told you that St. John the Baptist determined the course of modern theology? And what if I told you that the lessons he has to teach us are horrifically relevant right now? A few of my thoughts on Christian Nationalism and what it means to be a teacher in this moment. ⚓
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God Is Your Enemy
On Theological Liberalism, Christian Nationalism, and St. John the Baptist
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I thank and glorify my God for having allowed me to enter the ranks of the clergy to serve him precisely in these terrible and tragic times when the Church's outer prosperity is at its lowest ebb. —Fr Sergius Bulgakov
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Apparently my essay on Pope Francis was the third most-read article of 2025 over at The Living Church. Incredible! Thank you to everyone who gave it a read. ⚓
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Not My Pope - The Living Church
I know very little about the world, but in 2012, when I was 20, I knew even less. For instance, I didn’t know I was about to meet the man who would become Pope Francis.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The day every editor looks forward to: Publication Day!! You can now read all of Kathryn Tanner's hot takes on Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. Very happy with this one: a gift to work with a theologian working at this level. PLUS: an introduction by Weird Anglican Twitter celeb Ed Watson! ⚓
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Grouchy Disciple @grouchydisciple.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Magnificat antiphons for second week of Advent, from Galley, set to t.p. so that they can be sung with Magnificat in Hymnal 1982, S242. 🕯️
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Falling in love with God while also falling in love with the woman who would become my wife. It was a beautiful, strange time. As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts and reactions. ⚓
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Letters to the Bride: The Monastery
Love, You remember the day we first went out to the monastery, back when I didn’t believe in anything or at least I didn’t believe in much, and the fields were still straw colored from the winter but ...
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Homo Sapiens for Extraterrestrial Invasion (HSEI) @hsei.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Yall this is on Apple Music! “When the Lord comes back the rich get scared Ain't gotta act mean to be treated fair All the living's honest and dying too Our bodies return as heirlooms”
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Hillbilly Hymn (Okra and Cigarettes) by Nathan Evans Fox on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:03
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Wild to me that people think theology is irrelevant to the life of the Church. Like, I'm here just trying to think about the pressing questions that any sensible 13 year-old asks when you tell them to recite the Creed. ⚓
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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The Lord's comin' back y'all ⚓
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The Church of England @churchofengland.org · 25/11/2025
"Church should be a place where people enjoy coming." ⛪ Discover how St Thomas's Church, Garstang welcome every generation to worship. Across the country, churches are looking forward to welcoming you. Find your nearest service at AChurchNearYou.com.
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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Let's do our best to build little gardens like that in the world. 🙏💜
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Holiness is the brightness of divine love. —Fr. James Huntington ⚓
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Marguerite @margueritek.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Prepping for Advent.
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Cataclysmic: coming to the end of not only the church year but the 3-year lectionary. Time itself like a scroll rolled up, every word having been read. And the last word of it all? The end of it all? “This day you will be with me in paradise.” ⚓
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We are those upon whom the end has come
It is an incredible feast we are celebrating today: Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday after Pentecost—think of how that sounds: the last Sunday after Pentecost. As if there are only so many Sund...
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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It's too bad that so many Anglicans don't know much about William Whitaker. He was one of the most important defenders of scriptural authority in the sixteenth-century Church of England. I'm here to help you all get acquainted. 1/2
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