Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreAnne 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 1273
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026So 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. 130
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Three 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...drawnfromthechalice.substack.com3 Hard Truths about Anglican-Orthodox RelationsThis last week I overcame my absolute horror of appearing on video and sat down with All Things Necessary, the wonderful podcast hosted by Fr. 161
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This was a lot of fun. Many thanks to All Things Necessary for having me on. 051
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreJayTheAnglican @anglicancanada.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Head over and watch. Already watching and it’s an amazing conversation. ⚓️ 021
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreMarguerite @margueritek.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Loved this so much! Learned a ton. There is NOTHING like God's people speaking from the heart. 021
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 30/05/2026New pfp giving evidence of man bun deletion 040
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I 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. 160
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026But 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) 5803
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/03/2026"Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me." 0160
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/03/2026One 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. 0101
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Melting 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. 0112
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreCornelius Logue @archivedelver.bsky.social · 10/03/2026And I also. 182
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Don'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... 2101
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026You 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? 3110
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026btw the point of spiritual direction is not for your director to say: “Ignore your conscience and listen to me!” 020
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I’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.drawnfromthechalice.substack.comWho Was Raïssa Maritain? The Spiritual Mother Behind Vatican IIRaïssa Maritain's writings on the importance of spiritual liberty appear as premonitions of the positions taken by the Church during Vatican II. 030
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreBr. Gregory Morris, O.S.B @meinradmonk87.bsky.social · 29/01/2026The 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." 1132
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! ⚓drawnfromthechalice.substack.comWhat is wrong with the modern liturgy?On technocracy, spiritual avarice, and liturgical ascesis 120
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreThe Rev. Andy McQuery @frandym.bsky.social · 25/01/2026My 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. 1121
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026we 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 0184
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026we 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 129 080
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026If 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 125 040
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Whatever 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 27 061
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026As 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. 050
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026A 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." 071
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 20/01/2026But 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 080
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreAnne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026This 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. 0101
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..."martycenter.orgWake Up Dead Man and the New Seductions of the ClothWake Up Dead Man reimagines clerical corruption, shifting the threat from lust or greed to rage, grievance, and culture-war ideology for modern times. 070
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 30/12/2025One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. —Charles Péguy, “The Honest People” 050
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Why do the people of the Church look into the dark places of the world? 131
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Less Anglican punditry. More Anglo-Catholic mystagogy. This is my New Year's Resolution. 2283
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Karl 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. 1245
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 22/12/2025What 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. ⚓drawnfromthechalice.substack.comGod Is Your EnemyOn Theological Liberalism, Christian Nationalism, and St. John the Baptist 140
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I 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 070
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Apparently 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. ⚓livingchurch.orgNot My Pope - The Living ChurchI 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. 021
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The 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! ⚓ 3150
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreGrouchy Disciple @grouchydisciple.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Magnificat antiphons for second week of Advent, from Galley, set to t.p. so that they can be sung with Magnificat in Hymnal 1982, S242. 🕯️ 271
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Falling 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. ⚓drawnfromthechalice.substack.comLetters to the Bride: The MonasteryLove, 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 ... 0100
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreHomo Sapiens for Extraterrestrial Invasion (HSEI) @hsei.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Yall 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”music.apple.comHillbilly Hymn (Okra and Cigarettes) by Nathan Evans Fox on Apple MusicSong · 2025 · Duration 3:03 021
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Wild 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. ⚓ 2302
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreJordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025The Lord's comin' back y'all ⚓ 0133
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreThe 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. 062
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreBen Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Let's do our best to build little gardens like that in the world. 🙏💜 021
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Holiness is the brightness of divine love. —Fr. James Huntington ⚓ 080
Reposted by Fr Christopher PooreMarguerite @margueritek.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Prepping for Advent. 1142
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Cataclysmic: 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.” ⚓substack.comWe are those upon whom the end has comeIt 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... 090
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 19/11/2025It'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. 1/2 120