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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My first impressions of the new BCP-Bible combo just released from Church Publishing. A bit of a clarion call to make beautiful books that inspire the life of the Church. (Fortunately many are doing this already.)

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Is the new BCP-Bible combo a flop for Church Publishing or a comeback?

Don’t worry. I’ll talk about the ribbons.

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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

That really is the key: how to understand something without romanticizing it.

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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 · 29/03/2026

Yes, I'm also impressed with CP's work! I'm with you on the Zondervans. The typesetting just does not appeal to me, so I've been waiting for an alternative. Excited that Cambridge is also planning on doing a Diadem NRSVue. So we'll have some options.

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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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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I remember reading about that years ago from this wonderful book! Thank you for reminding me. A great anthology overall, but I remember really liking an essay that traces how Eastern liturgical poetry gets taken up into Methodist hymnals. www.google.com/books/editio...

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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

And I think there is another arguing for pre-70 Johannine priority. And the author is the Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity at Cambridge!

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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

I listened to his book on Benedict as an audiobook, and it was not bad in terms of syntax. But certainly, you are not alone in feeling this way. I have heard similar complaints from others.

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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I think I did listen to that! Many years ago perhaps. Especially because the title of that book sounds familiar, and it made me realize that a lot of leadership books are actually attempting to be manuals of public virtue. Not that they always succeed! Or inculcate true virtues!

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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Yes, the Rule has certainly had its influence on Anglicanism. Another example: It's pretty clear from Rowan Williams's book on the Rule that he got a lot of his leadership philosophy from listening to St. Benedict.

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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

At least in my circles: it seems like people are desperately trying to find a way to live amid chaos. The monastic traditions have this incredible practicality that is very attractive right now. I'll be interested to hear how your class as a whole progresses. Sounds wonderful.

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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

Oh yeah no worries. I thought your joke was very funny.

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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Nah we can just have an endless library of online PDFs and rectors can spend their time copying and pasting from that and printing it up fresh each week.

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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Truly the most threatening thing anyone has ever said to me on Bluesky. 😂 I admire your passion and clarity on this issue.

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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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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 · 29/01/2026

I've been waiting for this to come out! Thank you for posting about it in advance. It was a very interesting read, and a good introduction for me to Lonergan.

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Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

hey if the article can help the first-year seminarian and the 76 year-old priest, that is great news. Thanks for taking an interest.

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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

I did not notice that! Thanks for pointing that out. A beautiful testament to the way Pope Francis carried his diaconal ordination all the way into the papacy.

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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.

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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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