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Jonathan Grieser

@djgrieser.bsky.social
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“Crypto-liberal Laudian.” Episcopal priest, cat feeder, ballroom dancer. Spent 15 years toiling in the fields of academe: teaching religious studies and researching early modern religious history.

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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I didn’t know the pope had to go to CREDO 🤣⚓️
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
At conferences, the microphone comment is usually followed by “This is more of a comment than a question…”
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Because besides academic conferences, where it’s said most often is at church meetings
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The thing I love about our bells is that one is dedicated to the memory of Oscar Meyer, jr. and right next to it is one dedicated in memory of the sexton who worked at Grace for some 30 years
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Come hear our bells sometime. We have a full carillon, installed between 1872 and 1976 but they are frightfully out of tune with each other. We’d have to take them down and grind them to get it right.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My current organist doesn’t use it all. But my former organist always played it on Christmas Eve.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We’ve got one too
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I don't often post my sermons here but I thought I might do so today. We were observing National Coming Out Day and the Raging Grannies sang at coffee hour: jonathangrieser.com/2026/10/11/d... ⚓
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Don’t forget your tux! A Sermon for National Coming Out Day, 2027
October 11, 2026 Today we are observing “Coming Out Day” which is observed every year on this day, October 11. To recognize it in our worship is to acknowledge the importance of members of the LGBT…
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wurstlust
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bell Buckle is just down the road from War Trace
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Eating a moon pie thanks to one of my wife's former TA's who teaches at UT Knoxville now and has come back to Madison for a visit. No RC Cola, unfortunately. Never made it to the Moon Pie Festival in Bell Buckle TN when we lived in Sewanee
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's also the New Jerome Biblical Commentary--Roman Catholic and Historical-Critical
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seeing that film in the theater when it was rereleased in 1982 was a revelation
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m actually not a big fan of annual reaffirmation of ordination vows. I think it debases the significance of the vows we make at our ordination
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At our diocesan convention eucharist on Saturday, we had both renewal of baptismal vows and renewal of ordination vows.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wizard of Oz
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He’s obviously never paid attention during worship at clergy gatherings. They’re all reading either from the service bulletin or BCP. I’m not because given my eyesight I do have everything memorized (including when I’m celebrating).
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was wondering who you might be rooting for in this one.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Perhaps you don’t have bats, but we do
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now, if only an early modernist would do the same. I could catch up on the scholarship I've missed over the last 20 years
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Got it in 3 today
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Update, today the administration notified her that another of her students was a victim of sexual assault
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cosmo posing
Buff cat posing on his throne
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yup
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My wife was informed last week by the administration that one of her students was a victim of sexual assault and that the alleged perpetrator was also in the class.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I motioned to an usher to deal with it. Ever since then, I've placed a pitcher with water next to the fire pit and instructed an usher to douse it after the exultet.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One year, I was assisting a retired priest, who turned to me just before we lit the fire and said, "I've had the fire department come out three times at the vigil." A few minutes later, as we were beginning the liturgy of the word, I could see the flames on the new fire about 6 ft high.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Same. Had a priest (he taught me Greek and Latin) ask me to preach his funeral. Absolutely gobsmacked by the request
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“you get those photos for the weed communion wafers ad?” “sure did, boss. real sexy, just like you asked.”
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We use it in the summer. With the return of the choir, we’re back to Prayer B until Lent. Rite I, Prayer 2 from Easter to Advent 1.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Turns out, I didn't need to read that email.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's not only "The Youths"
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When I came into the Episcopal Church more than 30 years ago, I remember thinking the hymnal was awful in so many ways: odd tune choices; random absence of harmonies. I wouldn't say I love it now, but I've come to terms with its idiosyncrasies. But I wonder whether it is now a relic of another age
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In the South (maybe not just the South), there was a running joke that Marion Hatchett was responsible for all the Sacred Harp tunes in the 82 hymnal.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A colleague mentioned supplying at a parish in the diocese of Wisconsin (hard to believe, I know!) where the preferred vestments for Sunday morning Eucharist are cassock, surplice and stole.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It was the first day of classes at Furman University. I was 43. The freshmen I was teaching that day are now 43.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a Lord Bishop, don’t you have minions or retainers to attend to such mundane matters?
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In this instance, it was someone who was unmuted throughout the meeting of 60 some clergy and had several side conversations over the hour
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After 6 years of this, one would think that Episcopal clergy would know how to mute and unmute themselves on zoom ⚓️
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Where are the photos of Walmarts, Dollar Generals, Culver’s, and KwikTrips? #therealMidwest
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The last 2 days of ministry: lunch with my fellow Episcopal rectors in the area; a zoom about Flock cameras; outreach committee meeting; conversation with long-time members about funeral prep; and an encounter with a man who was baptized Episcopalian in another country and is now curious about faith
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They need an intervention
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
she consented. But I couldn't choose them myself. The principal did. I can still remember that he thought I would enjoy a biography of Robert Fulton. It bored me out of my mind and I was finally allowed to choose for myself.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When I was in the third grade, I was reading at an 8th grade level, I would grab my older sisters' history textbooks as soon as they came home from school and read them cover to cover. My parents had to beg my teacher to allow me access to more challenging books from the library. Eventually
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For two years from 1993-1995, I worked in Danvers, Mass, for a Canadian seafood processing company based in St. John's, Newfoundland. That was right when the cod fishery collapsed. It's remarkable to see this graph.
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Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
and he landed on his feet at the University of Arizona
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